Wordpress Plugin – FV Community News
Posted by Frank Verhoeven | Filed under Wordpress Plugins
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 Submissions` Page
- Customizable templates
- Captcha Spam protection (on/off)
- Akismet Spam protection (API key required)
- Build-in RSS 2.0 Feed
- Image Uploading
- Settings
- Uninstall Page
- Configurable Responses
How To Install & Use
- Download the files
- Upload the files to /wp-content/plugins
- Activate the plugin (WP-admin > Plugins > FV Community News)
- Browse Community News > Settings to select the settings you prefer.
- Go to Design > Widgets to add the Community News widgets to your sidebar.
You can also show your Community News plugin on a static page. You can do that by placing the following codes on a page that does support PHP:
Add Form
<?php if (function_exists('fvCommunityNewsForm')) fvCommunityNewsForm(); ?>
Latest Submissions
<?php if (function_exists('fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions')) echo fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(Number, Template); ?>
- Number – Insert number of items you would like to show here
- Template – Structure per item. You can use these tags:
- %submission_author%
- %submission_author_email%
- %submission_title%
- %submission_url%
- %submission_description%
- %submission_date%
- %submission_image%
By default the Template is: ‘<li><h3><a href="%submission_url%" title="%submission_title%">%submission_title%</a></h3><p>%submission_description%</p><small>%submission_date%</small></li>‘. <ul> </ul> tags are automatically added.
Example
Take a look at the sidebar, you could see the plugin in action right there. Also my friend uses Community News on his blog, so you can see a working example on DivitoDesign.
The FV Community News settings page.
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: 2.5+
TESTED UP TO: 2.7
CURRENT VERSION: 1.3
Change log
Version 1.1
Version 1.2
Version 1.3
Download
DOWNLOAD: FV Community News
Donate
Like this plugin? Please consider making a small donation.
Or help promoting it by adding a link to this page, definitely appreciated 
!
October 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
is there a way to manually add some code where you want the widget to appear in your sidebar?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Yes there is. You could use the following functions: fvCommunityNewsForm to get the form, and fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions to get the submissions.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Awesome plugin, I am really looking at bringing this into my blog cause I have been trying to create a better since of community for awhile and I think this would really work. Thanks for writing it up =)
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
I’m happy you like it
.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
At WP 2.6.2 in moderation, there is community news description, email, IP and date field, I don’t see News URL, the most important field to choose to Allow or Deny news. Thanks.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Well actually there is, it stands next to %submission_title%. You can use the following tags: %submission_author%, %submission_author_email%, %submission_title%, %submission_url%, %submission_description% and %submission_date%. %submission_url% will change into the location of the article, so it doesn’t automatically add the anchor tag.
Edit: I’m sorry, I misunderstood your comment and you’re absolutely right. I have fixed this little issue and updated the download.
Thanks for pointing this out!
October 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
A great plugin… it can give you lot of content for your website… There should be some improvement to combat the spam submissions
October 6th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hey Frank,
love the idea behind this plugin awesome bro.
But I have a question maybe someone can help me with is there a way to add the form to my sidebar without using the widget?
I would greatly appreciate it man thanks.
–David
October 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
@Computer Security: Thanks, and yes I know, I thought it might be a good idea to implement akismet, still working on that one
@David: Yes there is, see this page at Add Form below Install and further, this PHP code could be placed anywhere you want
October 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Great blog. I like layout!!!!
October 8th, 2008 at 12:43 am
plugin looks interesting, would be awesome if user could post a photo (or multi photos), would make a useful tool for someone like me in real estate. Can that be implemented?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I think that’s a really good idea! And I defenitly will take a look at it.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Thanks a lot Frank for your great plugin.
I tried to install it manually using the fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions Function as you mentioned, but it didn`t work at all.
Have you tried it manually?
(The widget works fine)
October 9th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Add: I checked the widget again and I know this is strange because the widget(which works fine) use the same function.
But when I tried to use it alone as you discribed above it didn`t work.
Thanks for support
October 9th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Hey HimtoX
Your right, it doesn’t work because you need to add echo before the function. I forgot to type this down in the example (updated now).
Note that when you don’t have any submissions yet, the function also doesn’t display anything.
Thanks for your comment!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Thanks again Frank. It works great now with the “echo”.
There is a missing bracket also in :
“if (function_exists(‘fvCommunityNewsForm’)”
I think it should be:
“if (function_exists(‘fvCommunityNewsForm’))”
And for the future update I think editing capabilitie will be great plus the suggested thumbnails @fres.
I think this will be one of the greatest wordpress in the future because it achieves a social concept as Facebook does.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Yes your right about the bracket, thanks!
.
The option to edit submissions will come with version 1.2, because I already improved a lot of things for 1.1 and I will release that one tomorrow
Oh, and it’s great to hear you like the plugin!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Is there a way to require users to be logged in before they can post?
October 9th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
This is implemented in version 1.1, wich will be released tomorrow
October 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Today is tomorrow.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Wow! I’m looking that extension for joomla cms. Convert this plugin please
Great work. This is popular.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
@ES
Please visit this post for more information.
It also is already released
@Adam
Well who knows, maybe I will do this in the future.
Thanks for your comments!
October 12th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Great plugin, but I’m not sure I like a new version. There are too much .js files and http requests, even gziped, my page loads are twice as long as before.
I need core functionality not sounds.js at my website. Thanks.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Well, that’s because of the scriptaculous library, but you are right and I was already started to create a solution for this. Maybe I should get rid of the libs and just created the whole javascript myself. However, at least I will get rid of the useless files witch are included now.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Thank you, I appriciate. One of the best wp plugins ever, and I really mean that.
Thanks again.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Great plugin I tried the nettuts.com tut on this but couldnt get it working but having similar probs here probably due to my bad CSS
I have the links and form in the sidebar of http://styl.eti.me but the links aren’t clickable and for some reason the text is all out of line? ;(
October 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am
@Tomas
Thank you!
@Styletime
Witch browser are you using? Because when I checked the page the links actually are clickable for me. The second thing I noticed is that the community news is displayed in a second sidebar (
#sidebar2), maybe this isn’t the way it should?October 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
How can I display let’s say the last 100 news in a wordpress page ? From what I know PHP code isn’t recognized in a Wordpress page …
October 14th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Wow what a perfect plugin, great job with this!! I just have one question I want to change the title color under the community news widget how can I go about doing this?
October 14th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
@ crazyleaf
What you could do is make some modifications to your
page.phptemplate file. For example you could do something like this:681 is the id of the page where you want to display the stuff. (Could be found in the wp-admin)
.
Thanks Stefan
But I decided to add some tags to this plugin which could be used in posts/pages to display this kinda things. So you could also wait for the next update.
@JayTee
Thank you!
Properly your best shot is to see your source code, and check witch class/id this title has. Modify this one and your done.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Forgive me, but what exact file should I look in?
October 14th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
No problem, just view the source of your web page, right mouse > view source and locate the community news
October 16th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Can you get rid of the useless files witch are included now in some 1.11 version without any other changes.
Plugin is great but to heavy, even gzipped, there to many additional http requests and we know we all use many other plugins also.
I just can’t use this plugin like this, my page is twice heavy as it was before.
Thanks.
October 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
chk my website i have put community section but prob is that when is submit templates setting, all the field are displaying individually, plz resolve my prob
http://www.freeziq.com/2008/09/27/diy-map-create-free-clickable-maps-in-flash.html
October 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
i have put these script in Templates section
%submission_author%, %submission_author_email%, %submission_title%, %submission_url%, %submission_description%, %submission_date%
October 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
@Thomas
.
Will do that
Edit: Done, should be available on wordpress.org within a few minutes. Please let me know if it’s enough optimized.
@Aquil
You should also add the html. So if want the link to the post, you should do something like this:
October 21st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Thank You! for optimizing, I also gziped files, perfect.
, with the ‘edit title and description’ ability, …
Looking forward for the new releases
As a side note a suggestion: not sure if that is hard to do, but in case it’s not you should probably make this plugin also work with jQuery and MooTools, so that users can pick the right solution in case they already use some of this scripts via other plugins … make sense?
October 21st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Good it worked for you (and properly for everyone).
About the other lib’s, properly the best thing would be to create a piece of javascript witch doesn’t require a library at all. But because different browsers require different functions to work, I think we almost can’t work without these great libraries. I will think about it.
One other thing, I don’t now if you are aware of this, but the gziped files wont work for visitors using Safari. You could find more info and a solution
here.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 am
This is wonderful! You have no idea how much this is going to help our community! I was wondering how I would go about making the URL field not required since some small organizations, like a church group lets say, might not have a website.
Thanks!
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
Hi Christopher,
If you want to do this now you have to modify the code, but I decided to make the URL field optional in the next release. Witch (I hope) will be released somewhere in the next two weeks.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Thanks Frank, I know that gziped files wont work for visitors using Safari.
Here is the solution I implemented (.htaccess file):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#Check to see if browser can accept gzip files.
ReWriteCond %{HTTP:accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !Safari
#make sure there’s no trailing .gz on the url
ReWriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.+\.gz$
#check to see if a .gz version of the file exists.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
#All conditions met so add .gz to URL filename (invisibly)
RewriteRule ^(.+) $1.gz [QSA,L]
Basically, if browser can’t accept gzip files, ‘regular’ files are served. All I needed is open source 7-Zip to gzip ‘regular’ files.
October 27th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Nice solution
October 29th, 2008 at 4:28 am
[...] FV Community News est un plugin conçu par Frank Verhoeven. Il est toujours difficile de parler de tout et de ne pas louper d’articles intéressants, avec ce plug-in cela n’arrivera plus. Le plug-in permet de laisser vos visiteurs proposer leurs liens vers un article intéressants. Bien entendu le formulaire est équipé d’une Captcha pour éviter le spam, de plus comme pour les commentaires, les propositions passent d’abord par un espace modération et libre à vous de valider ou pas le lien, il est possible d’autoriser automatiquement les contributeurs ayant déjà proposé des liens validés. [...]
October 31st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
October 31st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
i’m new to this whole WP thing but doesn’t it make sense to create shorttags for insertion of the “add form” and “latest submissions” rather than having people mod a page.php file ?
that way people can create a page in WP, then put something like [FV PLUGIN] or something and they’re good to go?
pardon me if this is a stupid question…
October 31st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Well, I actualy planned to create this for version 1.2, but pushed it up to the next version. Anyway thanks for the tip!
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:34 am
hello, nice plugin, just a note: I’m getting an error whrn logging in with a user profile:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /path/wp-content/plugins/fv-community-news/fvCommunityNews.php on line 1017
users are not able to edit / view their submissions
using WP 2.6.2
ciao!
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 am
Hi Neuville,
I have fixed the problem you mentioned and submitted version 1.2.1 to wp.org. After a minute or so it should be available for download.
Thanks for reporting that issue!
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
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November 7th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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November 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
After update to 1.2.1 , when I tried to post news … after clicking on ‘Post’ there was ‘… loading’ message but no news were posted, the script hanged at loading…
Thanks
November 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Yes I saw, I made a little mistake with the path to the images. A fix is on it’s way
November 14th, 2008 at 8:48 am
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November 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am
I really love to try it out. This is something new
November 15th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Thanks for this – great idea.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
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November 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
Hello, excellent plugin here, is there any way to add a community news section to a wordpress page?
November 24th, 2008 at 1:48 am
I have not run a full test of this plugin yet (as my site is not running to the public) but it appears like a great one. I would love to see a way for users to submit posts without links (like a commentary or guest post). Other nice to haves: let a user submit images (like on a graphic or photo site). Recognize registered users and display their name with the feed.
November 24th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
@Justin
Yes there is, check out the older comments for the solution. Also I will add tags to this plugin in the next version
@Brandon
Links are not required anymore as of version 1.2. Also images could already be uploaded (enable this through the admin panel – submissions-settings).
What do you actually mean with your last point? I think I don’t get that.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
Did anyone manage to get versions 1.2+ to work, the last version that worked is 1.1.1.
There are several problems, loading image problem- hanged at loading, when I post news I receive email but news section is empty, when you click to browse image for uploading, upload one image and then lets say you choose not to post image, there is no way you can delete image field.
Thanks.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hi Zazo,
I just added a new version (1.2.3) witch should fix a lot small bugs like the one you mentioned. If still some errors are there, don’t be afraid to tell me
December 6th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
thank you
December 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
First at all, Thanks for the great plugin.
Everything is the same with 1.2.3, the same problems as for all 1.2.x versions …
I tried with disabled/enabled image uploading, disabled/enabled RSS Feed, script simply hangs at … loading, image folder permission is 777 …. any ideas, perhaps some problems with Akismet or some other plugin.
I tried on two blogs and it just won’t work …
Let me know if you need some more info from me.
Thanks again
December 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Good post.
December 13th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Hello, I am experiencing problems with the RSS feed in the latest version. Feedburner cannot find the feed. Do you have any ideas of what could be wrong?
December 14th, 2008 at 9:34 am
@Zazo
I have send you an email.
@Paul
Can you see the RSS feed using a browser? Or does it never show up? I have also noticed that when you are using the feedburner plugin, you can’t reach the feed anymore.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hey, it’s all good now. Don’t know why it wasn’t working at first
December 31st, 2008 at 3:10 am
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December 31st, 2008 at 3:33 am
If you look at the only link I’ve posted and mouse over the URL, I’ve entered a competitive web site in the URL field and in the admin screen it allows me to view the correct site. On the production blog it puts in the base url for my web site instead of the url entered in the submission screen.
December 31st, 2008 at 3:52 am
Never mind. I figured it out with this:
On %submission_date% %submission_date%, %submission_author% suggested %submission_url%>
%submission_description%
I entered the <a href= string to capture the string as a URL and then reissued the %submission_url% to create the hyper link. It would be nice if it did that automatically. But, I may have messed something up
Thanks again for a cool plug in.
December 31st, 2008 at 9:25 am
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December 31st, 2008 at 11:19 am
I think it’s a great plugin, I just wish it wasn’t called on every single page. Should just load .js and .css on the pages you input the code. Not that there big files, but it’s just one more thing to weigh down a site, especially if you have thirty plus plugins [ not me, I hate plugins
]
Great idea to build repeat traffic and it’s free SEO <- Search engines will love this; and you don’t even have to lift a finger.
January 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I have 2 questions about the plugin:
1) I paste the code
in a static page and form doesn’t appears but appears same code (I use Exec-PHP).
2) The width of the column of my blog is 150. How do I reduce the form’s width ?
In any case your plugin is fantastic. Good job
thanks for your attention
January 4th, 2009 at 4:01 am
@Gary
The reason that it doesn’t add the tag automaticly, is to keep the most customizablility as possible. Now it is possible to add classes, nofollow and other atributes to the tag.
@MyDesignBytes
I get your point, but what if an user has used the widgets, then the files should be included on every page, so I think this the way it is now is the best one.
@Roy
1 – If you use the new tags, you don’t need Exec-PHP
2 – You can add some rules of CSS code to your style.css file, overriding the CSS in the plugin’s CSS file.
Thank you all for your comments!
January 17th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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January 19th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
wp 2.7 fv ver 1.3.1
I am a bit confused. We configured and added both widgets.
What is the Post URL box for? (most our readers would not know what URL is)
The Community News Box, the title and text truncate with… That is fine, but no way to display the entire submission.
We tried an edit and added “more” that did not help.
Sorry if it is a simple question.
January 24th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
hi, and tnxs for plugin…one question only (sorry, my english´s very bad)…how to put template into “php” fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(Number, Template);
Can give example please?
January 24th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I would really like to know if the communities news can be regular posts to a predefined category.
January 25th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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January 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Great plugin, very very userful!
I need to display a widget with latest submissions but without a title (I make a customized one with flash). For achieve this I think to use a normal text widget (the provided widget don’t allow to remove a title), and enter code for display latest submissions. But don’t know wich code…
Thanks for your help, and also other suggestions are welcome.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Hey thanks a lot for the great plugin. This is exactly what I was looking fro madly for last 2 days. However I need help with one of my concern. Here it goes:
I do not want to show the form in sidebar. I just want to put a link as submit a news and when some one click on it, it should open a pop up with the form. For example go to the following link:
http://www.noupe.com/
There in the mid column clicking on the add news opens up an ajax form with hyperlink like http://www.noupe.com/designnews.php/?TB_iframe=true&height=400&width=510……So how can I implement that mechanism with this plugin.
If possible please mail me the steps as you do not have option to notify myself of the comments posted in this topic in ur comment form.
Thanks again.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:18 am
@Steve Young
I will add the option to complete customize your form in the next version.
@Jose Maria
See the post above:
@Lex
Submissions can be added as posts in the next version
@Silvio
You can use this code:
And create a custom template without the title.
@Technie Zone
This is actually easier then you think I guess
What you could do is create a absolute positioned div, which is invisible.
Put the PHP tag for the form in this div.
Then with a simple piece of javascript you make the box visible when someone clicks on the link.
If you’re familiar with jQuery, it is even simpler. You could use the jQuery Dialog. (Dialog Demo
Thank you all for your comments
February 8th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Thank you very much for this nice plugin! I implemented it into a static page of mine that supports php with the code you mentioned
Now I have the problem that I somehow can´t make the inpute fields longer, I tried to do that in your fvCommunityNewsForm.php but when I upload the changed php file, nothing is changed on my website.
I would be very happy, if you could advide me, what I am doing wrong or how to change the length of the input fields.
Thank you very much!
February 9th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Is there a way to have the news divided into several pages? Like after 10 posts a new page.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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February 14th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Neem aan dat je Nederlands bent gezien je naam… Ik wil je ten eerste complimenteren met deze plugin, ik vind dit een must-have voor iedere blog. Ik had een klein vraagje voor je; Ik wil graag dat de links openen in een nieuwe pagina, waar moet ik dit veranderen? Dank u
February 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
would love to have this with images automatically resized to a specific size, so that users can submit any size photo.. and yes, I agree, having the option to provide this as a post is very essential for blogs that want users to also comment on the story itself..
February 15th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Great plugin. some thoughts
1- Allow submissions to be commented, like posts
2- Can we have a dedicated category for submissions?
3- Gravatar enabled for the subitter.
Many thanks … keep it coming please!!
February 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am
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February 18th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I would love for this to have the option of multiple forms and multiple outputs.. the reason being is that I will have 5 different sections in my blog, and I want 5 different submission forms that will produce five different outputs..
As of now, this is not possible yet..
February 18th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
How to i insert the form into a post or a page ?
And the same with the results ?
February 21st, 2009 at 8:29 am
i’ve added a couple of test submissions, and still i get this; “There are no submissions added yet, be the first.” The submissions are approved, and there does not appear to be any restrictions that would prevent these posts from showing up. Any ideas?
February 21st, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Could you create a forum or something for this plugin? Using the comments on this blog post as the reference isnt very user friendly. Especially since you can only view 10 comments at a time..
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm
You rule. It’s nice that people actually develop useful plugins instead of the plethora of … well … quite unusual stuff. GOOD JOB!
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Hi,
this plugin looks great, but i would like to post myself the mini news and having on the side bar the form to submit a news only for me, or specific users (or group of users). Is it possible to do that?
Thanks!
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
This is almost exactly what I’ve been looking for! I would also love to see submissions as posts!!
February 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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February 26th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
GO FRANK!
8D
~Mikeumus
February 26th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
would love to have at least 9 available widgets for this.. 9 widgets for output and one form that has a dropdown to choose which output..
For example.. what if you wanted submissions, as in our blog, in the politics category and others in business… we would like to have a separate output so that we can put these outputs in separate parts of our blog
February 27th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Your plugin looks great.
I followed all of your steps to place the form and recent submissions on a php enable page.
ie:
The form works fine. However the “recent submissions” will only display “There are no submissions added yet, be the first.”
I can’t figure out what to do.
Thanks
February 27th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Just brilliant…
Thanks for the plugin. just testing it now. let you know how it drives…
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Hello i wan’t use widget, can i put it in the sidebar??
BYe
Thanks
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Hello nice plugin, but i wan’t use the widget per my site, please can i put it in the sidebar by code?
Bye Thanks
March 4th, 2009 at 7:28 am
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March 5th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Very nice plugin, i’ll try it
March 10th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Cool plugin, but you forget 1 thing: make archive. Maybe, like in Wp-Wall plugin, maybe on separate page, maybe somehow another way… But it will be cool, if users can look at all submitted news.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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March 11th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Is there a way to run 2 instances of this on the same WP installation? We are setting up a site and we want to have one instance of FV Community News to run as intended, and a second one to use as a sort of “suggestion box” where users can suggest an article they would like us to write. all the contact plugins use email – we’d rather have the submissions right there on WP, as FV does. Let me know. Thanks!
March 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I like the idea of having a community news section. I tied the plugin, but when I approved an article, it will not post to the blog. I also did not receive an email notification. Any suggestions?
I know it takes a lot of time to build a plugin, so thank for your efforts.
March 21st, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Hi, great Tool.
It is possible to use the TinyMCE Editor?
March 28th, 2009 at 4:17 am
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March 30th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hey all,
It’s been a while since I last posted something. I’ve had a very busy period, wich made me not able to do anything on the plugin. However, at this moment I can tell you that the progress on the next update is going very well.
I also set up a forum, where you can put all your questions and suggestions for this plugin. Just click on forum at the top of this page.
From this moment, please dont post any questions here, but put them at on the forum. Ofcourse you can still say something you want to share here
Thanks for all your comments!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Very nice plugin Frank !
There’s a small bug when you output the description. You use the comment_text filter. This filter adds some opening & closings to the “existing” paragraphs. Results : xhtml mess.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Hi,
Thanks for creating and sharing this plugin, it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for but I am still having the issue,
it says There are no submissions added yet, be the first. even though news has been submitted, I’ve read through all the comments but I’m still confused what the fix is..
Many Thanks
Martin
April 17th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Hi,
How to run this plugin on Firefox? Chrome and IE are compatible. Only in Firefox this plugin dont work.
I cant add new post. When I click ’submit news’ there’s only loading gif for 1 second and nothing else.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:14 pm
hi i really like this plug in,so first off all thank u so much for develop it!!!
the only trouble is that i don’t know how to create a oo/mo language files form POT, can u please send me to my email a an english po/mo file so i will be able to translate it to my langauage.
thank u so much
urs itay
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
it could be more enhanced…there are very less options to configure it
May 13th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
thanks for the plugin, good job!
May 19th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
[...] Community News – Its a nice plugin if you want to infuse some sense of community for your readers, visitors to take part in sharing, submitting their own content. Also If your blog update is not so frequent then adopting this plugin can atleast bring you some ‘new content’ for your blog. The plugin comes with with moderation panel, a settings page and its own RSS. [...]
May 31st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
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June 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
Hey Frank,
Great plugin. When will be the new version of solution about You wrote 30 January?
June 7th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Hi, I really like this plugin and have had no problem using the widgets in the sidebar, but I would like to put the add form and the latest submissions in the body of my page. I have put the “add form” php codes onto the page, and it seems to work. The problem that I am having is that the php code suggested at the top of this post yields the following message on my site:
“There are no submissions added yet, be the first.” even after I have added a submission and approved it. I have tried a number of approaches, but what I have done at the moment is put the following code on my page:
Next, I went to the plugin settings and added the following template tags:
%submission_author%, %submission_author_email%, %submission_title%, %submission_url%, %submission_description%, %submission_date%, %submission_image%
After taking these steps, as mentioned, I can see the “add form” but for submissions I only see “There are no submissions added yet, be the first.” I am not a coder and am stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
Mark
June 8th, 2009 at 2:19 am
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June 17th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Thnx for the plugin. I have installed it but i have some problems with turkish characters. How can i deal with this problem? Thnx
June 18th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
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July 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 am
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July 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Great Plug-in, nice job.
Suggestions:
1. Eliminate the !important declarations from the CSS, as well as most – if not all – of the styling. Some parts of it are redundant.
2. Make the jQuery optional.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Hello! I have a problem with the news submission plugin. I have the plugin in my sidebar. It shows 15 submissions and it’s ok. But on the page, on the submission page I want to show them all. For the moment are 15 and i don’t know how to make to show all submissions on the page and only 15 in the sidebar. Can you help me?
July 7th, 2009 at 11:06 am
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July 13th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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July 16th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
These comments are a pain to go through. Firstly, let me just say THANK YOU and give you kudos for the great plugin. I actually need this exact plugin, BUT it definitely NEEDS a few updates (assuming many folks are beginners when it comes to css and php):
1) option to have the news submissions to be actual posts (posts which show up in the admin–>posts similar to TDOMF that can be edited by the admin/editor of the site); the default option can be as-is simply with limited edit capabilities (admin–>submissions)
2) option to determine what category the news gets labeled as. For example, I would like to create a category called “user submitted news” and all submissions can default to that category. Though, if you gave the option for these submissions to show up in the admin–>Posts section, then the admin/editor can easily edit and assign any category they want to the submission. Another reason why that option would be ideal.
3) an instructions manual (i would be happy to help you write this if you get in touch with me). For example, how do I make the php-enabled page? how do i change the a href link of the title go to the page on my site where the entire submission exists, and not the url provided by the user? etc etc.
4) All the commenters here need to use the FORUM so all suggestions/hacks/code/plugin-related issues/etc can be in one place. I think the author already suggested this.
I am posting here this first and last time. All future suggestions and issues will go to the forum.
Of course, COMMENTS are fine here.
July 19th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Hi Frank,
This is exactly what I am after however, initially could post news until manually tranferred plugin and activated but now can post and approve but cannot see the results in the sidebar – can you please help such a great idea!
July 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Hi,
first of all I beg yur pardon for my bad English…
I’ve installed your plugin but it seems there are some conflicts with other plugins in Wordpress.
If you look at this image
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/9809/letoff.jpg
you can see that everything works well. The slider works, the tabbed interface in sidebar works etc.
But when I active your plugin this is the result:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3020/leton.jpg
The slider disappeared and the tabbed interface doesn’t work at all.
Maybe because your plugin loads another copy of jQuery? Maybe for another and strange reason?
Do you think it can be fixed or not?
Regards,
René
July 30th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Hi,
it’s me again
I resolved the problem, deleting in fvCommunityNews.php the line that loads jQuery.
Now it works fine.
Thank you for the plugin. If you need the Italian translation, let me know…
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
the form works, i also can aprove the news, but no news are displayed?
August 8th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Great plugin, however there is no submit button on the edit submissions page and I can’t seem to get the rss feed to work for the life of me after I changed the url. It kinda puts a damper on listing all submissions with simple pie.
Any ideas?
August 10th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
A very nice plugin – can you ad photo-upload?
August 11th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
This is a terrific plugin! Thank you for this.
One question – how do I get the “My Submissions” page to show up? I selected it to display in the settings area, but I have no idea how to lead users to the page.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:26 am
Thanks for this plugin it’s great. For some reason not displaying in Opera on my site. Works find in all the other browsers.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
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September 1st, 2009 at 10:59 pm
good one but can be enhanced by improving the configration
September 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am
I have put code in my sidebar file “” but it is not showing news description.
What is wrong?
September 15th, 2009 at 11:26 am
code is – if (function_exists(‘fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions’))
echo fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(10);
September 19th, 2009 at 5:48 am
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September 29th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Hi, I’ve installed your plugin in my website, but I have a great problem with validator.
The output code isn’t valid!
I made some modification, but your plugin add a before the closing and I don’t know where it happens!
The link to my User Link Feed is here:
http://www.lesenfantsterribles.org/user-link-feed/
Thanks for any help.
René
September 30th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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October 1st, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Весёлые посты у вас выходят, но они выходят очень не часто
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:47 am
i want to tank for this plugin.I have a little problem,i have submited new article but it doesn’t appear in my site..can someone solve this problem ..i don’;t figure it out . 10x
October 4th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
How to use it in cyrillic?
October 19th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Great, plugin, congrats
Just a question, there is a way to add just a “Submit” button in the sidebar (below the submitted news) and the submit form in a new page?
Thanks.
Sergio
October 21st, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I believe I have installed everything properly.
but in my wordpress sidebar the word “Template” comes up – instead othe actual template materials…
I have tried manually addind the template commands in the php string (#, template commands), but that does not work.
The forums link would not work so I posted here.
appreciate some help
thanks
October 26th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
I installed & activated the plugin. When I added the form code to the submit news page, it did not create a form…the code posted.
Also, how do I get the submit news form on the side bar? (like you have here on your site).
Thank you very much for the plugin…I hope you are able to help me to get it functioning properly.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 am
I’m testing this plugin in my **password-protected**, WPMU 2.8.5.2 test environment.
I can submit links no problem and see them on the Submissions page, also no problem. However, when using fvCommunityNewsGetSubsmissions (I’m not using the widget), each submission’s url has my test env’s domain name appended to it in a peculiar way.
For example, suppose I had submitted this article. The submission’s link should be:
http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/
And in the Submissions page, that’s what it is. But when displayed in my test blog’s sidebar, the url changes to become (on mouseover):
http://mytestdomain/\”http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/\”
And of course, clicking the url results in a 404 as the extra characters get encoded.
Any ideas how to get rid of this? It completely renders the plugin unusable
November 6th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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November 6th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
First of all, thx for your hard work, it’s really saved my blog!
Does someone know if there is some way to include the posted submissions in the search results?
Please help
thanks
November 7th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
You can forget my last comment. I found the bug in my call to the get news function.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I am facing problems with the RSS feed with Feedburner, has anyone experienced this earlier?
November 12th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
hello Frank,
Is there a way to archive old submitted news items? I want them to be found back sometimes.
I created a special page for my commnity news http://speakerheadz.com/speakerheadlines
But I don’t want this page to contain hundreds of news items so people will have to scroll all the way down.
Thank you.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:02 am
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November 15th, 2009 at 5:48 am
When editing a submission there’s no “save” button?
November 19th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
What’s up everyone, my name is Shaun. I’m new to the forum and just wanted to say hey. I hope I posted this in the right section!
November 20th, 2009 at 2:50 am
First, let me say I’m a total idiot…I can not figure out how to save a submission I had to do some minor editing to.
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 am
Thanks will give this a try for my article website. will donate if his works out Thanks again
November 29th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
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December 16th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Thanks for providing this plug in.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hi everyone,
My name is Freddy and I’ve wasted nearly a month of my life on this place
I found it after being recommended by a few friends who have been hanging out here for quite some time.
I am a writer, graphics artist, photographer and just about anything else that comes up around the office. Aside from the above interests i’m really into scifi as I know that is so much more out there to be discovered, and a feeling that the universe is just teaming with life.
Well, I hope that I get to know more people here, share some experience and start learning. Have a greay day!
December 29th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Hi,
How do I set other language?
I have already translated a large part in Italian, but not display the translation
December 30th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hi,
in WP administration it’s impossible to save change in submission management.
WP ver. 2.8
January 5th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
its really good plugin and using it to submit news on my blog. It would be great if you help me about pagination. i.e. showing all News on a single page and want to display only 10 News a at time and paging should be there for other published News..
would it possible?
January 10th, 2010 at 1:17 am
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