We used NewsPublisher a few times in the past and it is a great tool. So versatile that I wonder why it is still called "NewsPublisher" and not "FrontEndPublisher" or something;)))
Also, we could, again, not get NP work this time for reasons beyond us. It must have been the security, and as Modx security let us down, we needed to quickly have a new solution with its own built in security / login. So, one full day of code crunching with a few dev's solved our life.. and client
Ben Marte had a look at our code and he also found anomalies he could not explain and it was clear more time needed to figure out. We have more than 10 contexts with a lot of sites, not sure if that is causing the troubles or not ...
Well.. to be continued