FV Community News V1.2

Posted by Frank Verhoeven | Filed under Wordpress Plugins |

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Finally, after a lot of programming the time is here. It’s the time for another update of my Community News plugin. This version includes a better way to protect you from being spammed, image uploading, edit submissions and more…

Read more | Comments (3) | October 31st, 2008

FV Community News Version 1.1

Posted by Frank Verhoeven | Filed under News, Wordpress Plugins |

After one week of release, I already have a new version of my Community News plugin. This version has some improvements, new features, and some bug fixes:

  • The submission moderation panel is improved and some bugs are fixed.
  • The option that users must be logged in is added.
  • The form is already filled in in parts for users who are logged in
  • The captcha could be removed for users who are already logged in.
  • The captcha image can now easily refreshed, using AJAX
  • A nonce field is added to fight spam.
  • I added an RSS 2.0 feed for the submissions.
  • AJAX is now used to submit the form.

Note that all the JavaScript from this plugin uses the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries, and if you already loaded jQuery in your page, the AJAX might not work.

On to version 1.2

There are already some suggestions for version 1.2:

  • Allow people to upload photo’s.
  • The ability to edit submissions.
  • Tags to add Community News in a post or page.

These will be implemented as soon as possible :-)
Have any other suggestions? Please leave a comment and I will take a look at it.

Read more | Comments (8) | October 10th, 2008

Create a RSS Feed with WordPress

Posted by Frank Verhoeven | Filed under PHP, WordPress |

When you are busy creating a wonderful plugin for your WordPress blog, it might be possible that you need to create a RSS feed. For example, when creating a guestbook people could ask for a RSS feed to view the recent added posts and stay updated, or take a look at my own Community News Plugin, isn’t it great if it had a build-in RSS feed as well?

Well don’t worry I am busy to create that and it is almost finished. In the mean while, I wanted to share some stuff I learned while creating this RSS feed.

The Beginning

The first thing we need is a function that actually creates the RSS feed. This function doesn’t need any parameters and it also shouldn’t return anything.

Read more | Comments (2) | October 6th, 2008