Prepare WordPress feeds for Google News
GN Publisher PRO extends GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds for publishers working with the Google News Publisher Center. The plugin creates RSS feeds designed to comply with Google News RSS Feed Technical Requirements and addresses common feed issues that can affect how articles are presented, updated, and crawled.
It is intended for sites that need more control over news-feed output and publication workflows. The underlying feed handling addresses incomplete articles, duplicate images, missing images or media, missing content such as social media or Instagram embeds, title errors involving missing or repeated titles, cached RSS feeds that update slowly, and delayed crawling by Google.
PRO features for publishing workflows
- Content Scraping Protection: add the PRO feature intended to protect published content from scraping.
- Exclude Categories From Main Feed: keep selected categories out of the main feed.
- Google News Sitemap: use the included compatibility for a Google News sitemap.
- Flipboard compatibility: support a workflow involving Flipboard.com.
- PublishPress Authors compatibility: use the plugin alongside PublishPress Authors.
- TranslatePress compatibility: support publishing environments using TranslatePress.
- Yandex Turbo compatibility: add compatibility for Yandex Turbo.
The plugin also includes compatibility with Apple News publishing and Google Reader Revenue Manager. Reader Revenue Manager provides publisher solutions intended to deepen audience engagement and convert subscribers or contributors. These capabilities make GN Publisher PRO suitable for publishers managing multiple distribution and audience channels from a WordPress site.
Monitoring and troubleshooting
GN Publisher provides information to help publishers investigate feed behavior in the Google News Publisher Center. The plugin can display the time of the most recent ping and feed fetch from Google, which is useful when troubleshooting an empty-sections issue. It can also ping Google when feeds are updated, helping publishers manage the update process for a Google News publication.
After activation, the plugin’s settings are available under Dashboard > Settings > GN Publisher. From there, publishers can check the feed URL and review the available settings. The plugin’s dashboard also provides additional information about applying and troubleshooting issues related to the Google News Publisher Center.
Installation and first steps
Install and activate GN Publisher PRO in WordPress. Open Dashboard > Settings > GN Publisher, check the feed URL, and review the available configuration options. Publishers can then use the PRO features according to their feed structure, categories, distribution services, and compatibility requirements.
For issue reporting, bug reports are welcomed on GitHub, while questions can be directed to the WordPress GN Publisher plugin support forum or the special support team described by the publisher. GitHub is identified as a place for qualified bug reports rather than a general support forum.
