PHP News Scripts

PHP News Scripts for Portals, Magazines & Online Publishers

Running a news site or magazine is less about code and more about keeping stories flowing. The PHP News Scripts category gives you a head start with ready-made PHP news CMS, news portal scripts and magazine systems that already know how to handle articles, categories, headlines and front-page layouts.

Want a quick shortlist before you dig into all the details? Jump to the Top 20 PHP News Scripts . That page highlights the most-used news CMS scripts, multi-author news portals, newspaper-style templates and lightweight headline systems other buyers are running in production.

Who typically uses PHP news scripts?

These projects are a good fit if you recognise yourself in one of these groups:

• Local newsrooms and community sites that need fast publishing tools.
• Online magazines and niche blogs with multiple authors and editors.
• Agencies building news or magazine sites for clients on a tight timeline.
• Side projects: review sites, football or entertainment news, tech roundups.

Instead of wiring up your own article tables, front page, category pages and archives, you get an opinionated structure that already works – and PHP source code you can extend if you want more.

Core building blocks you can expect

Most PHP news CMS and portal scripts in this category include some or all of:

• Article publishing with title, excerpt, body, categories, tags and featured image.
• Homepage layouts for top stories, latest news and highlighted categories.
• Category and author archives with pagination and SEO-friendly URLs.
• Multi-author support with roles for admins, editors, authors and contributors.
• Comment options, social share buttons and basic widgets (latest, popular, related).
• Simple ad slots so you can plug in banners or ad scripts.

How it fits with other Codester categories

News projects rarely stop at “just articles”. Many publishers pair a script from this section with more specialised tools: Blog Software PHP Scripts if they need a separate blog section, or a general website front-end using CMS Software PHP .

Revenue is often handled by a combination of ad and email tools. It’s common to combine a news portal from this category with ad management from Ads Software PHP and newsletter or subscriber management from Newsletter Software PHP Scripts to keep readers coming back.

On the front-end side, many news sites reuse layouts and components from HTML templates and polish typography and grids with CSS templates & code . The news script handles content and logic; templates handle the look and feel.

Questions to ask before you pick a script

As you browse the PHP News Scripts list, a few practical questions help narrow things down:

• Do you need multiple languages or just one?
• Is your site more “magazine style” (few big stories) or “news wire” (many short items)?
• Will you have many authors with different permissions, or just one or two editors?
• How important are comments and community features for your audience?
• Do you plan to show lots of photos or video embeds inside articles?

Product demos usually let you try the admin panel as well as the public site. It’s worth checking how quickly you can create a new article, schedule it, add images and push it to the front page – that experience matters every day once the site is live.

SEO and news-specific considerations

For search traffic, it’s useful to choose a script that supports clean URLs, meta tags per article and a sensible sitemap. Google’s Search documentation for news and article content (available via Google Search Central) gives a solid overview of what search engines expect around headlines, structured data and site architecture, and you can map those recommendations onto the fields your chosen script provides.

Once you’ve installed a news script, the real work is editorial: defining categories, agreeing on naming and style, setting up menus, placing ad blocks, creating author accounts and then publishing consistently. The PHP side quietly handles articles, archives and feeds, while you focus on stories and readers.