GH Today
GH Today - a custom-built, AI-powered news platform that replaced a WordPress site for a Ghanaian publisher, automating the entire newsroom from story sourcing to publishing.
The publisher ran a Ghanaian news site on WordPress but rarely had time to update it, the platform was slow, plugin-heavy, and demanded constant manual work to find, write, and post stories. They needed something faster and cheaper to run on shared hosting, that could keep itself fresh automatically without sacrificing editorial control or SEO. Crucially, the migration couldn't cost them their existing Google rankings: every old URL and view count had to survive the move.
We rebuilt the site from scratch as a lightweight, framework-free PHP/MySQL application designed for shared hosting. At its core is an AI content pipeline (Claude) that pulls from Ghanaian RSS sources, rewrites each story in the outlet's own voice, and queues it for one-click editorial approval, never publishing source text verbatim. We layered on a daily AI "Morning Briefing," automatic social posting, self-hosted web-push alerts, and a newsletter, all managed from a single Automation Control Centre with one-click manual triggers. The newsroom got a genuinely premium CMS: a magazine-style themed front end with dark mode and PWA support, multi-author roles, scheduled publishing, threaded comments, a live in-editor SEO scorer, trending-by-velocity, tag and author hubs, and a traffic-analytics dashboard. We migrated the full WordPress archive with slugs and view counts preserved, added a redirects manager for any changed links, and shipped a complete set of compliance pages (privacy, terms, cookies, editorial policy, copyright) ready for AdSense and Google News.
A self-updating newsroom: AI keeps the homepage fresh around the clock while editors stay in full control with a single approval click. The new site is dramatically faster and cheaper to run than the old WordPress stack, mobile-first, SEO-hardened (auto sitemaps for articles, tags and authors), and security-hardened (login throttling, spam protection, locked-down uploads, HTTPS). The cutover preserved the site's SEO equity, and the publisher went from "rarely updated" to a continuously-published, monetisation-ready platform that runs largely on autopilot.