General news website templates

Keyboard use, skip links, focus states, contrast guard, reduced motion, screen-reader labels and large touch targets on the website, apps and admin.

AdSense and Ad Manager slots in every template position with no layout shift, ads.txt and app-ads.txt, Ad Manager key-values and density limits, in-app ads with consent, and a native-widget slot type.

An "AI-assisted" label on stories where AI helped (editor approval required) and an AI-use policy page draft.

Draft a translation of a story into another edition with AI; a person reviews it before it can be published.

Change your site just by asking: the look, pages, menus, wording, automations and more. Every change has Undo. It’s free: connect a free AI account once, no card needed. Add credit to that account for faster models.

Add your GA4 or Tag Manager id; it loads after consent so pages stay fast.

Write and publish news articles with a headline, summary, rich block body, hero image, dateline and an "Updated" time.

Who published, edited, deleted or changed settings, roles and money settings (refunds, key changes, exports), with time; tamper-evident and exportable.

Bylines and public author pages with photo, bio and social links for Google News trust; several authors per story, guest bylines without a login and agency bylines (PTI).

Regular backups of your content and media on your server, with restore.

Readers save stories to read later on the website and in the app.

Logo, favicon, app icon, colours for light and dark, fonts per script and icon style in one wizard; switching templates keeps it all.

Mark a story as Breaking to label it and pin it to the top of the home page until it expires.

A breaking-news bar with timed items, priority and automatic expiry.

Two-level sections (e.g. India > States) with ordering and menus, labelled per language.

Age declaration at sign-up; for minors no tracking, no personalised ads and no profiling; an age gate on adult content.

Comments under stories with moderation, report and block, and spam protection.

Region-aware consent - the DPDP notice in India, a Google-certified IAB TCF v2.2 dialog in Europe, GPC and GPP for US states - with Consent Mode v2 defaults and a record of every choice.

A versioned partner API (stories with full rights data, sections, drafts, image import) with scoped API keys, IP allow-lists, expiry, rotation, per-key limits and usage reports. Paywalled bodies only with an explicit scope.

Import posts, authors, categories, tags and media from WordPress, Blogger, Ghost or RSS, keeping old URLs or redirecting them.

Label stories as News, Opinion, Analysis, Explainer, Review or Press release, with the matching search data.

Extra kinds of posts beyond news stories (for example recipes, jobs or results), each with its own fields and pages, and the details Google needs to show them well.

Correction and clarification notes on a story with their time, plus a public corrections page.

Readers get a dark theme that follows their device setting, with readable contrast.

One framework for tables and numbers that change (rates, scores, results), entered by hand or filled from a feed, shown in blocks on the site and app.

Story links open straight in your app on phones that have it, for every language host.

Publish in your main language plus extra language editions (each on its own web address), with linked translations, a menu per language, and Google showing readers the right language. Extra editions follow your plan.

SEO, Google News readiness and readability scores while you type, with specific fixes; your own required items before Publish; accessibility warnings (alt text, headings, link text, captions); paywall markup check.

Your own stages and who may move a story; scheduled publishing, embargo (kept out of feeds, sitemaps, push and apps), expiry and scheduled edits; edit lock with take-over; revision compare and restore.

Sign-in links, receipts, invoices and notices sent from your own domain (SPF, DKIM, DMARC checks) through your email provider, with bounce and complaint suppression.

Exam pages with form dates, admit card, exam date and result status in one place.

Question-and-answer and step-by-step blocks, added in the editor's Structured content panel, with matching structured data.

See Search Console, Google Analytics and AdSense numbers in your admin, using your own Google accounts.

Public grievance form, tickets with acknowledgement and the 15-day decision clock, the published officer contact and a monthly compliance report draft (India IT Rules 2021).

A clear table of important dates and official links at the top of exam and job stories.

Tell Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and Yep about new, updated and deleted stories at once.

Type Hindi and other Indian languages with a phonetic keyboard in the editor, even on a laptop without an Indian keyboard.

3 to 5 key points at the top of a story, written by the editor (AI drafts only with AI writing helpers, always approved).

A Live TV page and home widget for your own YouTube Live or HLS stream.

Upload photos from a phone or laptop (one or many), add alt text, caption and credit, pick a focal point; ratio crops, watermark or logo stamp, compression, and location/EXIF data stripped on upload.

Invite readers to follow your WhatsApp or Telegram channel from stories, the home page and the app. Included for every topic.

A most-read list from the last 24 hours of views plus "Trending now" (fastest-rising in the last 30 minutes) from built-in analytics.

Browser and app push senders (Web Push, FCM, APNs), the reader's alerts inbox and in-admin notices for one-to-one messages such as replies, receipts and account alerts.

Connect your own payment gateway (Razorpay first; test and live), hosted checkout only, signed webhooks, one ledger, GST invoices, refunds and nightly reconciliation. Readers pay you directly; Keynate takes no cut.

Gallery stories and in-article galleries with swipe on phones.

Quick reader polls on the home page or inside a story, with live results.

"Add as a preferred source on Google" and "Follow on Google News" buttons in stories, the footer and the app.

Readers' data requests (access, correction, erasure, consent withdrawal, nominee) with deadlines and export, consent ledger, retention schedules and a breach log - built for DPDP, GDPR and CCPA.

Short 60-word news briefs readers swipe through on the home page and in the app.

Write and publish a short story with a photo from a phone in a few taps.

Daily, weekly and yearly horoscopes for all 12 signs, entered in one grid.

Tables of prices you update by hand (gold, fuel, mandi or vehicle prices) with dates and change arrows.

Free reader sign-in by email link or code, phone OTP, Google or Apple; profile, account deletion in web and apps, an optional free registration wall and age declaration. One identity for every reader feature.

Text size, line spacing, reduced motion and a data-saver mode, kept on the reader's device.

Recipe cards with ingredients, steps, time and servings, with Recipe structured data.

301 redirect rules, automatic redirects when a URL changes, and a list of broken URLs with hit counts.

State and city editions with an edition picker and area pages (not language editions).

Up to six related stories under every article, by shared tags and then section.

One page that lists the latest exam results with direct links and status.

A rating box with pros, cons and a verdict for product, film or place reviews, added in the editor's Structured content panel, with review structured data.

RSS feeds for the site, each section and each author, per language.

Ready for Google, Google News and Discover: Google gets a list of all your pages and the details of every story, links look good when shared, and old web addresses keep working after a move. AI answer tools can read your stories too.

Share to WhatsApp, X, Facebook and Telegram, or copy the link.

Cookie-less first-party analytics on your server - readers now, top stories, sources and spikes for the last 48 hours - with no third-party tracker.

Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini about your site, like your top stories this week or which stories need SEO fixes. They can't publish, delete, or touch money or security.

Search per language, including Indian scripts with transliteration and Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

Every design and code change is built, previewed, published with zero downtime and can be reverted.

Phone sign-in codes and service SMS through your own SMS provider (MSG91 first), with India DLT entity, header and template ids in your name.

Updates only with your consent, a snapshot first and automatic rollback if the site is not healthy.

Sponsored, Partner and Advertorial stories with a mandatory label and sponsor logo, sponsored links, disclosure line, Google News sitemap exclusion and a client approval link.

Editable drafts on day one - About, Contact, Ethics, Fact-check policy, Ownership, Masthead, AI-use policy, Accessibility statement, Privacy, Terms, Refund and Cancellation, Subscription terms, Grievance officer - linked in Organization data.

Hand-ordered collections and series of stories with an introduction, such as explainer hubs and special reports.

Tag stories by topic and give every topic its own page.

Invite your team as Owner, Editor, Reporter, Copy editor, Photo editor, Contributor/stringer or Legal reviewer, limit roles to sections, with optional two-step sign-in.

Video stories and embeds from YouTube, X, Instagram and Facebook, loaded lightly so pages stay fast.

Signed outgoing webhooks for story, comment and subscription events with retries, a dead letter, a delivery log, redeliver, test events and endpoint health. Works with Zapier, Make and n8n.

Ready calculators (loan EMI, tax, BMI, fuel cost, crop yield and more) to place in stories and pages.

A browsable archive of editorial cartoons and memes by date and topic.

Side-by-side comparison tables of products, plans or models, with highlights.

A searchable library of PDFs such as circulars, notifications and reports, with previews.

List upcoming events with date, place and link, on a calendar page and in stories.

Claim and verdict cards for fact-check stories, with ClaimReview structured data.

A "Write for us" page where signed-in readers send articles or pitches; your editors review every one and publish it under the writer's byline.

A calendar of upcoming releases and launches (films, series, phones, vehicles, games) with dates and story links.

Send breaking-news alerts to app and browser subscribers, per language and topic.

Post new stories automatically when you publish to your Facebook Page, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn and Telegram channel (also Bluesky and Mastodon). X is a separate add-on.

Product and deal boxes with prices and tracked affiliate links, clearly marked for readers.

Turn a spreadsheet into an accessible chart for a story, readable on phones.

Election pages with constituencies, candidates, live results tables and maps, entered by your desk.

Enquiry and callback forms with consent capture (India DPDP) and an export of leads.

A listen button that reads stories aloud in the story's language.

Minute-by-minute coverage with key points, a pinned post, timestamped updates that appear without a reload, and the LIVE badge in Google Top Stories.

Sell memberships and lock premium stories, paid through your own payment gateway.

Email newsletters with sign-up boxes, automatic daily digests and consent records.

Quizzes and timed mock tests with scores and answers explained.

Let ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini write story drafts, draft comment replies and suggest SEO changes for you. Everything waits for a person on your team to review, confirm or publish.

Tap-through visual stories for phones that can appear in Google Discover.

AI writes stories from the sources and topics you choose, on your schedule. They wait for your approval, or you let them publish on their own, section by section, within daily limits. Every AI story is labelled and can be undone. One-step setup from your niche is coming soon.

Publish your print edition as a page-by-page e-paper with clickable stories.

Upload your own videos and stream them with adaptive quality. Connect your own video host keys (Mux first) in Media settings; plain MP4 upload works without them.

Publish magazine issues with a cover, table of contents and a reader mode, free or for members.

Vertical short videos with swipe, on the website and in the app.