Veridis News Desk Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Veridis News Desk provides an integrated newsroom and editorial workflow management layer directly inside WordPress administration.
Current capabilities include:
- Newsroom Overview: Centralized dashboard for monitoring publications, workflow stages, and editorial activity.
- Editorial Statuses: Dedicated stages (Idea, Writing, Review, Ready) mapped seamlessly to WordPress post statuses.
- Assignees & Deadlines: Assign writers and editors, set publication deadlines, and track overdue items.
- Editorial Priorities: Highlight story importance from low to urgent.
- Editorial Board: Visual board workflow for active story management across editorial columns.
- Article Health: Automated checks for editorial readiness, metadata completion, source attribution, and photo credits.
- Follow-ups Management: Track post-publication follow-up tasks, updates, and research leads.
- Editor Mode Integration: Seamless sidebar integration inside the WordPress Block Editor with unsaved-change protection.
- Canonical Article Model: Modern data layer and REST API for consistent editorial metadata retrieval and updates.
Documentation & Resources
- Product Overview: https://veridis.dev/products/news-desk/
- Documentation: https://veridis.dev/products/news-desk/docs/
- Support: https://veridis.dev/products/news-desk/support/
- Changelog: https://veridis.dev/products/news-desk/changelog/
Source Code & Build Instructions
Veridis News Desk includes compiled and minified JavaScript and CSS bundles in build/assets/. The corresponding human-readable React, TypeScript, and CSS source code is publicly accessible at:
https://github.com/Veridis-Dev/veridis-news-desk
Production asset mapping:
* src/AdminApp/main.tsx -> build/assets/app-*.js and build/assets/app-*.css (Newsroom React workspace)
* src/EditorApp/main.ts -> build/assets/editor-*.js and build/assets/editor-*.css (Block Editor sidebar)
* build/manifest.json maps hashed Vite asset filenames for WordPress runtime loading
Building from source requires Node.js (>=22.12.0) and npm:
- Clone repository: git clone https://github.com/Veridis-Dev/veridis-news-desk.git
- Install dependencies: npm ci
- Generate production bundles: npm run build
Screenshots
Newsroom Dashboard with publishing activity, deadlines, Article Health, and follow-ups at a glance.
Newsroom List for reviewing stories, assignments, priorities, deadlines, and editorial readiness.
Editorial Board with stories organized across Idea, Writing, Review, and Ready to publish.
Story Drawer with editorial details, sources, internal notes, follow-ups, and Article Health.
Editor Mode brings assignment, deadline, priority, and workflow controls into the WordPress Block Editor.
Follow-ups workspace for tracking callbacks, story developments, deadlines, and editorial revisits.
New Story workflow with category, editorial status, assignee, priority, and optional deadline.
