A news website script for small local papers

• Headlines and a breaking-news strip
• Story writing and image upload
• Administrator and editor roles
• RSS, an XML sitemap and NewsArticle structured data on story pages
• Five advertisement slots, including the top banner, side column and below a story
• A WhatsApp tip-off line
• PHP setup wizard, SQLite database and an option to start with sample stories

Who uses it?

The visitor reading the site, and the editor or administrator of a small local news site who writes and publishes stories and manages categories, pages and advertisement slots.

Where do they start?

The visitor goes from the home page to the headline, a category or the search. The editor and the administrator sign in to the admin panel with their own user name and password.

What do they do on screen? Step by step

1. Home page

   A breaking-news strip, a sliding headline area and a “Son Haberler” (latest stories) list at the top

2. Story page

   The category path, headline, summary, date, author and read count, and the picture

3. Category page

   The stories of the chosen category are listed newest first, 12 to a page, with page numbers.

4. Search

   The search box looks in headlines, summaries and story text, and says how many results it found.

5. Admin sign-in

   The panel takes a user name and a password. After six failed attempts the user must wait 15 minutes. The “Demo hesapları” (demo accounts) box has password-free…

6. Panel: dashboard

   The counts of published, scheduled and draft stories and the total reads

What do they see at the end?

The editor writes the story, adds its picture, picks a category and tags, and publishes it right away or schedules it for a later time. The story then shows on the home page, the category page, the search, the RSS feed and the sitemap by itself; the headline and breaking-news marks shape the home page.

What is it good for?

Writing stories, setting the publication time, choosing the headline and adding an advertisement code all happen in one panel; the site lives on its own domain and hosting and needs no database server.

There is no cart, customer account or online payment on this site for now. Reach out by phone, WhatsApp or the form; in a first conversation your need and the software’s fit are reviewed. The form does not create an order, a contract or a payment.

Possible delivery options

• Partly
  Source code and documents handed over — you install it

  A candidate 1.0.6 ZIP and a draft setup guide exist. Independent installation and delivery acceptance are incomplete; the package is not being handed to clients now.

• Partly
  Installed by us — on your hosting and domain

  The sample-data demo runs on the same shared hosting account. Setup with install.php on a real client’s hosting, client-specific configuration and acceptance have not been tried; installation is not offered now.

• Not now
  Hosted and managed by us — 12-month managed service

  Separate customer hosting, backups, monitoring and support have not been verified; hosting and management are not offered.

What the package contains

• Candidate package: News Website 1.0.6 (PHP and SQLite)
• Admin panel, story writing, scheduling, categories, search, RSS and sitemap
• The setup guide is a draft; licence and client-use terms have not been decided.

Let’s talk about this software →

• Small local newspapers and news sites publishing their stories online
• Publications with one or a few editors managing stories from a single panel
• People looking for a small news-focused script instead of a general content system such as WordPress

• The live demo runs version 1.0.6 and is still a candidate; not delivered to a client or deployed by a real news organisation. Stories, names and pictures in the demo and screenshots are invented.
• The live demo runs PHP 8.3 and SQLite; setup and feature tests ran locally on PHP 8.3. Installation with install.php on a customer’s hosting, other PHP versions and real devices have not been tried.
• Writing, deletion and uploads are disabled in the demo; sample data is configured to reset every six hours. That interval has not yet been observed working regularly on the live host.
• The interface is in Turkish only. There is no MySQL, membership, comments, multi-step publishing approval, automatic RSS import, e-mail or SMS.
• Uploaded images are not resized automatically; there has been no load or performance test for high traffic. Acceptance by Google News or AdSense is not promised.