apple-news
WordPress plugin · detected on 199 sites in our index (3.73% of WordPress sites scanned)
Where apple-news sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
apple-news is the #75 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 3.73% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running apple-news are hosted on WordPress.com (46% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth, present on 70% of apple-news sites. The most frequent theme is Newspack Scott.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with apple-news
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running apple-news in our index.
- Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth70% of apple-news sites · 140 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection70% of apple-news sites · 139 sites
- Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS67% of apple-news sites · 134 sites
- my-jetpack67% of apple-news sites · 133 sites
- wpcom67% of apple-news sites · 133 sites
- Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI65% of apple-news sites · 130 sites
- coauthors52% of apple-news sites · 103 sites
- elasticpress48% of apple-news sites · 96 sites
Themes commonly running apple-news
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- Newspack Scott8% of apple-news sites · 15 sites
- NBC6% of apple-news sites · 11 sites
- vip5% of apple-news sites · 9 sites
- Assets2% of apple-news sites · 4 sites
- Newspack Katharine2% of apple-news sites · 4 sites
- ninetofive2% of apple-news sites · 3 sites
Hosting providers running apple-news
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- WordPress.com46% · 13 sites
- Kinsta29% · 8 sites
- Pantheon21% · 6 sites
- Pressable4% · 1 site
Sites using apple-news
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- ctmirror.orgNewspack Scott · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- twelfthmagpie.comTwelfth Magpie Free Site 2026 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- martech.orgtdm-editorial · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- mandatory.comEvolve Media · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- sacurrent.comNewspack Sacha · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- wwd.comvip · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- thecity.nycNewspack Scott · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- operationsports.comtheme unknown · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- wabe.orgtheme unknown · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- stuff.tvKelsey Media - Stuff.tv · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- horseandhound.co.ukSimba Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- sunset.comSunset Magazine V5 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect apple-news
Five-vector detection — /wp-content/plugins/apple-news/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it — cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.