Built for newsrooms & publishers

Your newsroom, running like one.

PublishDesk turns sources into on-voice, SEO-complete stories and publishes them straight to WordPress — with review, version history, and editorial control at every step. One desk, from tip to live.

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The PublishDesk dashboard: today's pipeline, publishing activity, category mix and the stories waiting on the desk.

SOURCED reuters · lagos bureau DRAFTED house voice applied SEO 94 / 100 IN REVIEW desk editor LIVE breaking · 4 updates PUBLISHED basementafrica.com SCHEDULED 06:00 WAT SOURCED reuters · lagos bureau DRAFTED house voice applied SEO 94 / 100 IN REVIEW desk editor LIVE breaking · 4 updates PUBLISHED basementafrica.com SCHEDULED 06:00 WAT

7 guided steps, source to live 4 headline angles per story 12-point SEO engine, scored live ~60s to connect a WordPress site

Every serious newsroom needs a system.

Not another writing tool — an operating system for the whole desk: sourcing, drafting, voice, review, publishing, and the morning after.

Sources

Never miss the story your readers expect.

Monitor the wires and your beats in one feed. Trend clusters flag what competitors covered that you haven't — your assignment editor, on duty all night.

RSS, breaking-news monitors and URL extraction in a single queue
Facts, quotes and media pulled from the source automatically
Start from a feed item, a link, a template, or a blank page

The Sources feed: monitored wires and beats with trend clusters flagging coverage gaps.

Editorial voice

Every draft sounds like your house wrote it.

Voice profiles govern formality, banned words, attribution rules and exemplars — enforced on every rewrite, per brand, per site, per client.

Per-brand profiles: tone, formality, banned words, attribution rules
Four headline angles drafted in your voice, scored for search
Provenance on every draft — what was drafted, what was edited

Workflow

Writers prepare. Editors approve. Nothing slips.

A real editorial pipeline — custom stages, role-gated moves, review requests, inline comments, and a full version history behind every byline.

Roles that mean something: writers submit, editors publish
Custom stages, assignments, inline comments and notifications
Version history on every story, with who changed what

The editorial workflow board: custom stages with stories moving from draft to approved.

WordPress-native

One click from approved to published.

Categories, tags, featured image, schema and SEO meta travel with the post. Publish live, schedule, or draft to any connected site — then moderate reader comments without opening wp-admin.

Publishes into the exact category on each site's real taxonomy
Featured image, tags, schema and SEO meta carried across intact
Works even on hosts that block inbound traffic — delivery self-heals

The publish step: choosing the target site, category and publish time before going live.

From source to front page, in one straight line.

Paste a link, a wire item, or your own notes. PublishDesk carries it through the desk — you stay in charge of every call.

STEP 1

Source

Start from a URL, feed item, template, or a blank page. Facts and media are extracted for you.

STEP 2

Draft

PublishDesk rewrites to your editorial voice and drafts four headline angles worth arguing over.

STEP 3

Polish

A live 12-point SEO score, meta, schema, alt text, internal links — fix what matters, skip what doesn't.

STEP 4

Review

Editors approve with full provenance: what was drafted, what was edited, and by whom.

STEP 5

Publish

Live, scheduled, or draft — straight to WordPress. The social pack is waiting before you've closed the tab.

What the desk actually looks like.

Real screens from a working newsroom on PublishDesk — the score, the grid, and the week ahead.

Search readiness

A 100/100 you can watch happen.

The score updates live with every fix — headline keyword, meta description, structure, internal links. No guesswork, no plugin roulette.

The 12-point search readiness panel scoring a story to 100/100 in real time.

The desk

The whole desk in one grid.

Status, stage, assignee, SEO and views for every story — nothing hides, nothing gets forgotten in a chat thread.

The posts grid showing status, workflow stage, assignee, SEO score and views for every story.

Calendar

Plan the week, not just the post.

Scheduling to the minute, drag-ready, with unscheduled drafts on deck so the week ahead is never a surprise.

The content calendar with scheduled stories across the week and unscheduled drafts on deck.

Live Story Mode

When news breaks, break it first.

Run breaking coverage like a wire desk: a reader-facing live page on your own site, multi-editor updates, verification and corrections — with a breaking banner your WordPress site shows automatically.

Reader-facing live pages, SEO-indexable from minute one
Multiple editors, one command center, zero collisions
Verified updates, pinned key developments, correction trails
One-click recap article when the story settles

Live Story Mode: editors posting verified updates to a running breaking-news story.

Serious tools, honest pricing.

Every plan starts with a 14-day Pro trial — the full desk, no card required. Save 20% on yearly billing.

Solo

For the one-person publication

$30/month

150 posts & rewrites / month
1 WordPress site
Full pipeline, SEO suite & voice profiles
Content calendar & scheduling

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Pro

Business

For multi-brand publishers

$399/month

20 seats · 5 sites · unlimited posts
Custom workflow stages & bulk operations
Breaking-news source monitors
25 live stories / month · onboarding call

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Need unlimited scale, SSO, or an SLA? Talk to us about Enterprise.

Asked and answered.

How does WordPress publishing actually work?

You connect your site once with a WordPress application password (about a minute, revocable anytime). Finished posts push one-way from PublishDesk — with categories, tags, featured image, schema and SEO meta intact. The free companion plugin adds live banners, reader-view counts, and comment moderation from inside PublishDesk.

Does PublishDesk write the stories?

PublishDesk drafts; your desk decides. Every rewrite follows your editorial voice profile, every draft is marked with provenance, and nothing goes live without the review path you configure. The byline stays yours because the judgment stays yours.

Is my content used to train models?

No. Your articles, sources, and editorial content are processed only to do the work you ask for — never to train models, ours or anyone else's.

What happens when my trial ends?

Your workspace becomes read-only and everything is preserved — posts, sites, voices, settings. Choose a plan and you pick up exactly where you left off. No card is required to start, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan.

Can my whole team work in it?

Yes — roles are real: writers draft and submit, editors review and publish, admins govern voice, workflow and sites. Invitations, assignments, inline comments, and notifications keep the desk moving without a group chat.

Which languages does it support?

The interface ships in 11 languages, and your content always stays in the language you write it — nothing is machine-translated behind your back.

Can it target the exact category on my site?

Yes. PublishDesk live-syncs each connected site's real category tree — sub-categories and menu labels included — so a post lands in precisely the section you choose, on every site you publish to.

Run the desk, not the tooling.

Start free for 14 days with the full editorial desk — sourcing, voice, review, SEO and WordPress publishing. No credit card, and your first story can be live in minutes.

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