Built for newsrooms, publishers & content teams

Your newsroom, running like one.

PublishDesk turns sources into on-voice, SEO-complete stories and publishes them straight to WordPress — with review, version history, and editorial control at every step. One desk, from tip to live.

14-day Pro trial · No credit card · Publishing to WordPress in about a minute

app.publishdesk.io/dashboard
The PublishDesk dashboard: publishing activity, category distribution, and today's focus in one view
Four PublishDesk headline angles with live search-length meters
Four headline angles, scored for search
The post library: statuses, categories, and processing times at a glance
Source to draft in ~20 seconds — the whole library, scored
Source → liveone pipeline, seven guided steps
4 anglesheadline variants drafted in your voice
12-pointSEO engine scoring every story live
~60 secto connect a WordPress site
The Editorial Desk

Every serious newsroom needs a system.

Not another writing tool — an operating system for the whole desk: sourcing, drafting, voice, review, publishing, and the morning after.

Sources

Never miss the story your readers expect.

Monitor the wires and your beats in one feed. Trend clusters flag what competitors covered that you haven't — your assignment editor, on duty all night.

Story Monitor: trending clusters and feed sources
Editorial voice

Every draft sounds like your house wrote it.

Voice profiles govern formality, banned words, attribution rules and exemplars — enforced on every rewrite, per brand, per site, per client.

Editorial voice profile configuration
Workflow

Writers prepare. Editors approve. Nothing slips.

A real editorial pipeline — custom stages, role-gated moves, review requests, inline comments, and a full version history behind every byline.

Custom editorial workflow stages
WordPress-native

One click from approved to published.

Categories, tags, featured image, schema and SEO meta travel with the post. Publish live, schedule, or draft to any connected site — then moderate reader comments without opening wp-admin.

A published post with on-site management: update, change author, move category — without wp-admin
How it works

From source to front page, in one straight line.

Paste a link, a wire item, or your own notes. PublishDesk carries it through the desk — you stay in charge of every call.

1

Source

Start from a URL, feed item, template, or a blank page. Facts and media are extracted for you.

2

Draft

PublishDesk rewrites to your editorial voice and drafts four headline angles worth arguing over.

3

Polish

A live 12-point SEO score, meta, schema, alt text, internal links — fix what matters, skip what doesn't.

4

Review

Editors approve with full provenance: what was drafted, what was edited, and by whom.

5

Publish

Live, scheduled, or draft — straight to WordPress. The social pack is waiting before you've closed the tab.

Receipts, not promises

What the desk actually looks like.

Real screens from a working newsroom on PublishDesk — the score, the grid, and the week ahead.

Search readiness score: 100/100, every check green
A 100/100 you can watch happen.The score updates live with every fix — headline keyword, meta, structure, links.
The Posts grid: statuses, stages, assignees, SEO scores and views
The whole desk in one grid.Status, stage, assignee, SEO and views for every story — nothing hides.
The publishing calendar with scheduled and published posts
Plan the week, not just the post.Scheduling to the minute, drag-ready, with unscheduled drafts on deck.
Live Story Mode

When news breaks, break it first.

Run breaking coverage like a wire desk: a reader-facing live page on your own site, multi-editor updates, verification and corrections — with a breaking banner your WordPress site shows automatically.

  • Reader-facing live pages, SEO-indexable from minute one
  • Multiple editors, one command center, zero collisions
  • Verified updates, pinned key developments, correction trails
  • One-click recap article when the story settles
app.publishdesk.io/live
The Break a Story dialog: headline, source, confidence — GO LIVE
Pricing

Serious tools, honest pricing.

Every plan starts with a 14-day Pro trial — the full desk, no card required. Save 20% on yearly billing.

Solo

For the one-person publication

$59 /month

  • 150 posts & rewrites / month
  • 3 WordPress sites
  • Full pipeline, SEO suite & voice profiles
  • Content calendar & scheduling
Start free
Most popular

Pro

For editorial teams

$179 /month

  • 8 seats · 8 sites · 600 posts / month
  • Live Story Mode — 5 stories / month
  • Review, comments, assignments & social packs
  • Post performance analytics
Start free

Business

For multi-brand publishers

$399 /month

  • 20 seats · 20 sites · unlimited posts
  • Custom workflow stages & bulk operations
  • Breaking-news source monitors
  • 25 live stories / month · onboarding call
Start free

Need unlimited scale, SSO, or an SLA? Compare all plans →

Questions

Asked and answered.

How does WordPress publishing actually work?

You connect your site once with a WordPress application password (about a minute, revocable anytime). Finished posts push one-way from PublishDesk — with categories, tags, featured image, schema and SEO meta intact. The free companion plugin adds live banners, reader-view counts, and comment moderation from inside PublishDesk.

Does PublishDesk write the stories?

PublishDesk drafts; your desk decides. Every rewrite follows your editorial voice profile, every draft is marked with provenance, and nothing goes live without the review path you configure. The byline stays yours because the judgment stays yours.

Is my content used to train models?

No. Your articles, sources, and editorial content are processed only to do the work you ask for — never to train models, ours or anyone else's.

What happens when my trial ends?

Your workspace becomes read-only and everything is preserved — posts, sites, voices, settings. Choose a plan and you pick up exactly where you left off. No card is required to start, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan.

Can my whole team work in it?

Yes — roles are real: writers draft and submit, editors review and publish, admins govern voice, workflow and sites. Invitations, assignments, inline comments, and notifications keep the desk moving without a group chat.

Which languages does it support?

The interface ships in 11 languages, and your content always stays in the language you write it — nothing is machine-translated behind your back.

Can it target the exact category on my site?

Yes. PublishDesk live-syncs each connected site's real category tree — sub-categories and menu labels included — so you file every post exactly where it belongs. And if a post goes out without a category, PublishDesk intelligently picks the best fit instead of dumping it in "Uncategorized."

What happens if someone edits a post directly in WordPress?

PublishDesk detects the drift and shows you exactly what changed. You choose: pull their edit into PublishDesk, or push your version back. Nothing is ever silently overwritten.

What is Live Story Mode?

A real-time breaking-news command center: multiple contributors post timestamped updates with verification levels and a corrections lane, readers see a live banner on your site via the companion plugin, and when it's over you convert the whole story into a canonical article in one click. Included on Pro, scaled up on Business.

How does PublishDesk keep my account and content safe?

WordPress credentials are stored with AES-256 encryption and connect via revocable application passwords. Accounts support two-factor authentication, every workspace action lands in an audit log, and each organization's data is isolated at the database layer. Editorial Standards let you enforce gates — like a minimum SEO score or mandatory human review — before anything can go live.

Does it help with SEO too?

SEO is built into the pipeline, not bolted on: a live score as you write with one-click optimize, meta descriptions and focus keywords, eight schema.org structured-data types, AI image alt text, and internal-link suggestions drawn from your site's real published content.

Where do I get help while I'm working?

Mega — the PublishDesk assistant — lives in a chat bubble on this site and inside the app, and answers product and how-to questions instantly. For anything that needs a human, [email protected] is read by people, not a ticket robot.

Put your newsroom on PublishDesk.

Fourteen days of the full desk — pipeline, voice, live coverage, WordPress publishing. If it doesn't make your desk faster, walk away.

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