=== Legacy MediaTech Newsroom Suite ===
Contributors: legacymediatech
Tags: news, magazine, starter content, publishing, social media
Requires at least: 6.4
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 8.0
Stable tag: 0.7.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Launch a professional news or magazine website with guided setup, starter content, reading time, and optional news schema.

== Description ==

Legacy MediaTech Newsroom Suite is a free companion for news, magazine, broadcast, and
editorial websites. It provides a guided Modern Newsroom starter
site that preserves existing content and creates clearly labeled editable samples.

Features include:

* Five-step launch wizard for style, branding, starter content, search, navigation, and launch review
* Essential newsroom categories and policy pages
* Primary navigation setup
* Six editable sample articles
* Modern Newsroom starter-site foundation
* Modern Newsroom visual preset with safe, content-preserving application
* Manual social audience counter widget and shortcode
* Reading-time display
* Optional NewsArticle schema that disables itself when Rank Math or Yoast is active
* Latest-news shortcode
* Permission-based automatic social publishing through secure webhooks
* Reliable, editable homepage search title and description with Rank Math integration
* Per-network connections, editable message templates, and per-story overrides
* No social account passwords stored in WordPress

The plugin works with any standards-compliant theme and is designed to integrate
especially well with the free Legacy MediaTech Newsroom theme.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the plugin or install it from the WordPress Plugin Directory.
2. Activate Legacy MediaTech Newsroom Suite.
3. Open Appearance > Newsroom Launch Wizard.
4. Follow the five guided setup steps and choose a starter site if needed.
5. Replace all sample content before launching your publication.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Will the importer delete my content? =

No. The importer preserves existing posts, pages, categories, and media. It only
creates items that are not already present.

= Does it download third-party images? =

No. The importer uses text-only sample content to avoid licensing and privacy
surprises. Publishers can add their own properly licensed images.

= Does it replace my SEO plugin? =

No. The fallback NewsArticle schema automatically disables itself when Rank Math
or Yoast SEO is active.

== External services ==

Automatic social publishing is optional and disabled by default. When a site
administrator enables it, confirms permission, and supplies a webhook URL, the
plugin sends the story title, excerpt, URL, featured-image URL, author, site
name, publication time, and formatted message to that administrator-selected
service. No request is sent until the administrator explicitly configures and
enables a connection. Data handling is governed by the selected provider's
terms and privacy policy.

== Screenshots ==

1. A responsive newsroom homepage with lead coverage and category sections.
2. A focused article experience with professional editorial typography.
3. The Legacy MediaTech Newsroom publication design system.
4. Guided newsroom setup and content-preserving starter-site tools.
5. Permission-based social publishing and editable workflow controls.
6. Responsive live-broadcast presentation for desktop and mobile audiences.

== Changelog ==

= 0.7.1 =
* Renamed the plugin and text domain to Legacy MediaTech Newsroom Suite.
* Moved administrator and public styles into properly enqueued stylesheets.
* Hardened NewsArticle JSON-LD output by using WordPress-safe JSON encoding defaults.
* Removed coupling to a specifically named companion theme.

= 0.7.0 =
* Added a five-step Newsroom Launch Wizard for style, branding, starter content, search/navigation, and launch review.
* Added safe publication-name, tagline, and brand-color setup controls.
* Added a launch readiness summary and separated advanced integrations from first-run setup.
* Improved wizard redirects and removed publication-specific wording from reusable broadcast demo content.

= 0.6.1 =
* Added homepage search appearance settings.
* Added Rank Math title and description compatibility for static homepages.

= 0.6.0 =
* Added a customer-facing starter-site library.
* Added safe visual presets and social audience counters.

= 0.5.0 =
* Added the Newsroom first-run dashboard, launch progress, and publication presets.
* Added manually verified social audience counters.

= 0.2.0 =
* Added opt-in automatic social publishing with explicit permission controls.
* Added Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and custom workflow connections.
* Added per-story share/skip controls and dispatch status.

= 0.1.0 =
* Initial public beta with Modern Newsroom starter content.
