News Aura SPA – Hindi & English News Portal PHP Script

News Aura SPA is a news portal script written in plain PHP for channels, local newspapers, YouTube news pages and magazine sites that publish in Hindi, English or both. It is not a WordPress theme. You upload one folder, open install.php, fill four fields and the site is live with your administrator account, a database and the default pages.

Pages open without a full reload. A small Vanilla JavaScript engine fetches the next page, swaps the content, updates the title, canonical tag and schema, and keeps the back button and scroll position working. PHP still renders complete HTML for every direct visit, so search engines and visitors with JavaScript turned off see a normal site.

The front end follows the News Aura layout: black masthead with edition links, quick-links bar, latest-stories grid with a lead story, category sections one after another, a dark video shelf, podcast, photo and e-paper sections, opinion cards with columnist avatars, and a sidebar with popular stories, sections and a newsletter box. Six content types are built in: article, page, video, photo gallery, podcast and PDF e-paper with an in-browser reader.

The content studio handles the day-to-day work: a two-column editor with a visual and HTML mode, media library with drag and drop, categories and tags with images, eight menu locations, homepage blocks with four card layouts, comment and review moderation, bulk actions on every list, SMTP with a test send, a newsletter queue, ad slots, find and replace, backup and restore, REST API and an optional AI drafting helper that uses your own Groq key. Reporters get a printable ID card with a QR code that anyone can scan to verify them.

Key Features

Try the live demo

• Website: https://newsarphpspa.gt.tc/
• Content studio: https://newsarphpspa.gt.tc/login/
• Email: admin@example.com
• Password: admin@12345678

Video guide: https://youtu.be/SbGvT2RrcGc

Front end

• Black masthead with edition links, weather chip, dark mode switch, account and saved stories
• Quick-links bar and an editions strip, both editable as menus
• Latest-stories grid with a lead story, then every category as its own section
• Dark video shelf, podcast list, photo shelf, e-paper shelf and opinion cards
• Sidebar with popular stories, sections and newsletter sign-up
• Hindi or English interface, chosen in settings

Content types

• Articles with table of contents, listen button (browser text to speech) and reading progress bar
• Video posts with a player and related videos
• Photo galleries with captions and credits
• Podcasts with an audio player and episode notes
• PDF e-paper with page previews and an in-browser reader
• Pages for About, Contact, Privacy, Terms and Editorial policy, created on install

App-like navigation

• Links and forms load through Fetch, no full page reload
• Title, meta, canonical and schema update on every page change
• Back and forward buttons keep their scroll position
• Load-more on archives, real pagination links kept for crawlers
• Instant SVG placeholders with the site name while images load, never a broken image icon
• Lazy images with srcset, local fonts and icons, no CDN calls

Reporters and authors

• Reporter role in Users
• Reporter ID card page with PNG download, two-page PDF and print
• QR code on every card that opens a public verification page
• Team page listing all reporters
• Author pages with bio, photo and all their stories
• Opinion category with columnist cards and an author box

Content studio

• Dashboard with KPI cards, recent content, quick actions and a setup checklist
• Content list with search, status filter, type chips, pagination and bulk actions
• Two-column editor: visual and HTML mode, tables, images, colours, schedule, featured image, SEO title and description
• Media library with drag and drop upload, search and copy URL, and optional WebP copies through GD
• Categories and tags with images, eight menu locations with nesting and icons
• Homepage and sidebar blocks with type and category filters and four card layouts
• Light and dark admin, usable on a phone

Site tools

• Comments and 1 to 5 star reviews held for moderation
• Bulk manager for posts, categories, tags, media, users, comments, subscribers, menus and blocks
• SMTP with provider presets and a real test send
• Newsletter with consent, signed unsubscribe links and a queue processed by cron
• Custom code and ad slots in the head, body, footer, inside articles and around homepage sections
• Find and replace with a preview, JSON backup, owner-only restore and editorial reset
• REST API for public reads and signed-in editing
• AI drafting helper with your own Groq key, and drafts are never published automatically

SEO and security

• Clean URLs such as /post/story-slug/ and /category/india/, with a query-string fallback
• Canonical, robots, Open Graph and Twitter tags, plus Organization, Article and Breadcrumb schema
• sitemap.xml, RSS feed and robots.txt
• Prepared statements, CSRF on every form, login throttling and session rotation
• Main owner protection: other admins cannot take over the owner account or add raw code
• Upload checks by real file type, randomised names and script execution blocked in uploads

Install and hosting

• One-step installer: site address, name, email and password
• Database folder found automatically outside the web root, no paths to type
• SQLite by default, MySQL optional
• Optional pack of 84 Hindi and English sample entries in every format
• Host-safe .htaccess files that work on restricted shared hosting
• Works in the root or in a subfolder

Made for

• Hindi and English news portals and local newspapers
• YouTube and social media news channels that want their own website
• Magazine, education and explainer sites
• Press clubs and agencies that issue reporter ID cards
• Developers who want a news site without WordPress

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or newer with PDO SQLite (or PDO MySQL), mbstring and fileinfo, and GD recommended for WebP copies
• Apache or LiteSpeed with mod_rewrite, or Nginx with the included rules
• HTTPS recommended
• No Composer, no Node.js, no build step

What you get

• Full PHP, CSS and JavaScript source code, not encoded
• One-step installer with SQLite and MySQL support
• Content studio (admin) with 24 screens
• 84 optional Hindi and English sample entries with credited media
• Local fonts, icon set and PDF.js reader, no CDN
• Buyer README, HTML documentation and video guide link

Good to know

This is a standalone PHP application, not a WordPress theme or plugin, and it does not import WordPress content automatically. Newsletter campaigns are queued and sent by cron.php through your own SMTP account, and without a cron job or the manual Process button, queued mail is not sent. The AI helper needs your own Groq API key. The sample pack reuses a small set of licensed images, videos, audio files and PDFs across 84 demo entries. Replace them with your own content before going live. Password recovery is done by an administrator, and there is no automated reset email.

Live demo

https://newsarphpspa.gt.tc/