Frank Verhoeven

Many blogs out there can only produce a couple articles a week while their visitors ask for loads more. It’s sometimes a good idea to add related articles from other blogs to your sidebar. Adding them manually takes lots of time we don’t have. With this new Community News plugin you allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.

Features

Currently, the Community News plugin has the following features:

• Widget Ready (Different form/results widget)
• Tags for use in posts/pages
• AJAX Form Handling
• Multi-Language Support
• Moderation panel (with email option) – Make sure you approve the right articles.
• Edit Submissions
• “My Community News” Page – Allow registered users to view their submitted articles.
• Customizable templates
• Akismet Spam protection (API key required)
• Build-in RSS 2.0 Feed
• Settings Page
• Uninstallation – Not the right plugin for you? You can easily remove it completely.

How To Install & Use

In order to successfully use this plugin, you will need the following:

• PHP 5 or higher
• WordPress 3.0 or higher

Installation Steps

1. Download the files
2. Upload the files to /wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin (WP-admin > Plugins > FV Community News)
4. Browse Community News > Settings to select the settings you prefer.
5. Go to Design > Widgets to add the Community News widgets to your sidebar.

You can also show your Community News on a static page. You can do that by placing the following codes on a page that supports PHP.

Add Form

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<?php fvcn_form(); ?>

Latest Articles

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<?php fvcn_list_posts(); ?>

Archive

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<?php fvcn_post_archives(); ?>

If you are not familiar with PHP, and you want the Community News to be shown on a WordPress page or post, you can use the build-in tags for that. Make sure you are using the HTML editor while adding these tags!

Add Form

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<!--fvCommunityNews:Form-->

List Posts

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<!--fvCommunityNews:Posts-->

Archive

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<!--fvCommunityNews:Archive-->

Custom Templates

Every blog out there has different requests and needs. With version 2.0 and up, the plugin supports custom templates so it can meet all of those needs. Creating your own custom templates is simple, and more information on this can be found on the Custom Templates page, dedicated to this topic.

Example

If you would like a live demo of the plugin, be sure to check out DivitoDesign.com. The plugin has been running there for quite some time now.

Bugs & Questions

If you find any bug in the latest version of this plugin, I hope you’d be so kind to tell me about it. This will only improve the plugin, which is better for the users! When you have anything else to say (appreciated!), please comment!

Plugin Info

AUTHOR: Frank Verhoeven
AUTHOR URL: http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/
WORDPRESS VERSION: 3.0+
TESTED UP TO: 3.1.2
CURRENT VERSION: 2.0.2

Change log

If you are interested in the changes this plugin has had, please check out the changelog on the official WordPress page.

Download

DOWNLOAD: FV Community News

Donate

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