10+ years in publishing
The platform has been shaped through long-term use with real publishers, editorial needs, commercial formats, and daily newsroom pressure.
Aeon News publishing platform
Daily newspaper logic, built into WordPress.
Aeon News extends WordPress into a decade-tested editorial platform for publishers who need a real front page, controlled article hierarchy, serious commercial formats, app distribution, AI-ready workflows, and the kind of structure normally associated with much larger newspaper systems.
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Fixed structure as strength
The three-column front page and article layouts create predictable quality, advertising logic, and strong editorial rhythm.
Custom fields for editors
ACF-powered controls manage presentation, placement, authorship, media, summaries, metadata, and article behavior.
Consulted agent workflows
Aeon News is agent-compatible, but the real value comes from configuring AI workflows with the editorial team.
Free personalized demo
See your own newspaper running on Aeon News — free.
Seriously interested publishers get a personalized preview built from their own site: your articles, your name, your look — on the real platform. No commitment, no cost. It is the fastest way to feel what your newspaper becomes on Aeon News.
Get a free demo of your own newspaper-
Send us your site
Share your current site through the form and tell us briefly about your publication.
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We build your preview
Shortly after, you get a personalized demo of your own newspaper on Aeon News — front page, articles and branding in place.
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Walk through it with your team
Explore the preview together with us, see the editorial controls, and decide whether the platform fits.
Editorial control
Shape the hierarchy of a daily newspaper instead of accepting a blog feed.
core · writer profile
Writer register
One profile for every staff writer, columnist and guest, with titles, roles, portraits and a public writer page.
core · opinion section
Genres and an opinion section
News, analysis, comment, editorial, column, debate, reply, letter and review, separate from the section an article belongs to.
core · republish box
Republishing with history intact
Lift an archive article back onto the front page, now or at a planned time, with sharing, push and a new reel in one step.
core · front-page hierarchy
News dimensioning
Four editorial levels help teams decide what deserves the lead, a smaller placement, or only the latest-news list.
core · article topic label
Topic threading
Group articles around unfolding events, recurring coverage areas, or sponsored story series.
core · author card
Author and columnist system
Dedicated author pages, signatures, biographies, portraits, additional authors, and columnist presentation modes.
core · story support module
Fact boxes and article summaries
Add structured summaries, key findings, supporting material, video, galleries, and fact boxes around the article.
Reader engagement
Keep readers moving through relevant journalism without weakening trust or clarity.
core · search page
Search made for a newspaper
Relevance ranking, filters for section, writer and date, and results that show where and when an article was published.
core · scroll sequence
Continuous article loading
Load the next article from the same category as the reader scrolls, with URL updates and page-view tracking.
core · ticker
Latest-news ticker
A compact rotating ticker brings the latest newsroom activity into article views.
core · popular list
Trending stories
Show high-performing articles from a selected period so important work does not disappear after the next publishing cycle.
core · reader controls
Dark mode and reading time
Modern reading comfort with device-aware dark mode and automatic reading-time estimates.
Revenue tools
Make commercial formats visible, controlled, and transparent.
core · sponsored placement
Native article system
Sponsored articles can receive fixed front-page exposure while remaining visibly separate from editorial content.
core · ad map
Display advertising architecture
Multiple fixed commercial surfaces across the front page, article view, side columns, and in-content placements.
core · ad planner
Aeon Ad Manager
The platform's own ad system: ads, groups and placements, a planner for bookings, and statistics that belong to the newspaper.
core · native feed
Campaign-friendly front page
Native placements can move through their own slower flow instead of being washed away by the editorial feed.
Workflow and quality
Support the practical work behind daily publishing.
add-on · social channels
Aeon News Poster
Share articles to X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram and Bluesky from the newsroom's own system.
service · publishing workflow
Translation and publishing workflows
Automated workflows that translate articles between sister newspapers or prepare articles for publication, with verification first.
core · editor fields
Editorial controls built into the platform
Purpose-built fields give editors control over presentation, metadata, media, writers and placement, the same on every site.
add-on · quality review
AI proofreading add-on
Review article text, captions, credits, excerpts, tags, summaries, and metadata before publication.
compatible · distribution
SEO and social workflow
Compatible with leading SEO plugins and automated social publishing workflows.
add-on · multilingual workflow
AI translate and migrate add-on
Translate and migrate complete articles, images, metadata, categories, and topics between connected WordPress sites.
Platform operations
Run a newspaper site with fewer plugins, fewer surprises and the same behaviour on every site.
core · performance settings
Aeon Cache
A complete performance suite in the theme: page cache, preloading, browser caching, image loading, delayed scripts and database cleanup.
core · privacy consent
Privacy and web analytics
A consent banner for statistics, Matomo with or without cookies, and Google Analytics with Consent Mode v2.
core · dark mode
Dark mode that covers the details
Light, dark or the reader's system setting, with embedded X posts, coloured boxes and tables that stay readable.
core · platform settings
Built-in housekeeping
Missed scheduled posts, e-mail protection and trash retention, built into the platform.
core · database updates
Database updates you can review
Changes to stored data are previewed, backed up, logged and reversible.
core · languages
Ready for every language
Reader-facing texts in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and English, and a new site that sets itself up.
core · editorial API
Editorial API for agents
Everything an editor sets in the article editor can be set by authorised agents and workflows, with the same rules.
Data and audio services
Services Aeon Media runs for newspapers on the platform.
service · analytics dashboard
Aeon Analytics
A clear dashboard for the newspaper's Matomo statistics, across one or several sites.
service · audio briefing
Radio Summary
A daily spoken news briefing generated from the newspaper's own articles.
AI editorial agents
A consultation-led service for designing, training, and rolling out agent-supported workflows inside WordPress.
service · agent desk
Agent-supported newsroom operations
Aeon helps editorial teams define where AI agents should research, draft, proofread, fact-check, or prepare articles with human approval.
service · WordPress workflow
WordPress production automation
Agents can assist with excerpts, metadata, captions, featured images, galleries, embeds, Rank Math-style SEO fields, and post settings.
add-on · poll and quiz agent
Engagement modules maintained by agents
Weekly polls, reader polls, and quizzes can be suggested, drafted, and maintained by AI agents trained on the publication.
add-on · moderation queue
AI-assisted comment moderation
A privacy-minimised, fail-closed moderation queue can help clearly safe reader comments move faster while uncertain cases remain with moderators.
service · agent training
Editorial skill library
Document the publication's tone, sources, workflows, fact-checking routines, and recurring production tasks as reusable agent skills.
Media formats
Give editors richer story formats without losing the newspaper frame.
core · gallery
Gallery and slider support
Use galleries as supporting media or as a strong replacement for the featured image.
core · video lead
Featured video support
Replace the lead image with video when a story calls for motion or direct footage.
compatible · ecosystem
Comments and page-builder compatibility
Use native or third-party comment systems and extend campaign surfaces with page builders when needed.
Audience engagement add-ons
Create structured reader participation without turning every article into an open comment thread.
add-on · front-page poll
Weekly poll
A front-page poll module for recurring audience questions, newsroom prompts, campaign themes, or public-interest topics.
add-on · article-level engagement
Reader polls inside articles
Optional per-post polls placed below the article content to capture reader sentiment at the moment of engagement.
add-on · quiz workflow
Professional quiz system
Create image-supported quizzes around reported topics, explainers, campaigns, or educational editorial packages.
How it works
From first call to launch — a clear path.
Platform, app and agent work are quoted after a focused consultation, so you always know the cost before anything is built.
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Intro call
A free 30-minute conversation about your publication, current WordPress setup, migration questions and goals.
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Scoped proposal
A written, fixed quote covering setup, migration, app store accounts, training and rollout — no open-ended hours.
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Build and migrate
We configure the platform, migrate your archive, and walk your team through staging before anything goes live.
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Launch and partnership
Go-live support, training, updates and media-partner guidance as your publishing grows.
Part of the Aeon News suite
Automatic article-to-video
Aeon Reels Creator
Every article becomes a vertical short with a professional voiceover in your readers' language — generated from the post you already published.
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Aeon News App
A white-label iOS and Android app that works with any WordPress news site — your web edition wrapped in native navigation and push notifications.
Explore the app Consultation-led newsroom AI
AI Editorial Agents
AI agents rolled out inside your WordPress newsroom — research, drafts, metadata and quality checks, always with editors in control.
Explore AI agentsConsultation-first rollout
Build your next newspaper on proven editorial infrastructure.
Every publisher has different migration, brand, app, advertising, and training needs. Aeon News starts with a focused consultation.