NewsLite is a clean and lightweight PHP news and magazine script built for modern publishers.
It comes with a feature-rich Admin Panel that allows you to manage website content, SEO settings, and other configurations with ease. NewsLite is fully portable and works on any domain. It can be installed either in the website root or inside any subfolder, with no hardcoded base URL required.

Live Demo:

https://newslite.octagramtech.com/

https://newslite.octagramtech.com/admin/login

Username: admin
Password: change-me

• Modern, responsive user interface designed for news and magazine websites
• Powerful Admin Panel to manage articles, categories, pages, menus, navigation, widgets, settings, and more
• SEO-friendly routing with clean and readable URLs
• Flexible database options: SQLite by default, with optional MySQL or MariaDB support via the .env file
• Built-in SEO tools including sitemap.xml generation and robots.txt output
• RSS feed support with caching options
• Newsletter system with subscribe, confirm, and unsubscribe functionality, plus admin-side newsletter management
• Multi-language support with language management available in the Admin Panel
• Social login (OAuth) options that can be enabled and configured in settings
• Optional AWS S3 integration for file uploads
• Contact form with optional Google reCAPTCHA
• Basic security features included, such as CSRF protection and safe file upload rules

• PHP 8.0 or higher (recommended)
• Apache with mod_rewrite enabled or Nginx
• PDO extension enabled

Installation

• Upload the files to your hosting account (either in the root directory or a subfolder)
• Open your website URL in a browser
• Log in to /admin and configure your site settings
• To use MySQL, set DB_DRIVER=mysql in the .env file and provide your database details

Default Admin Login

• Admin URL: /admin
• Username: admin
• Password: change-me

• Bootstrap and Bootstrap Icons
• Google Fonts (optional)
• Unsplash (demo and preview images)