FV Community News 3.0 Alpha Preview 1

Posted by Frank | Filed under News Wordpress Plugins

A little while ago I talked about a complete new version of the FV Community News plugin. This version will take advantage of the custom post type that WordPress supports. Today an alpha preview is available for you to see what direction the plugin is going into. Keep in mind that this version is not for use on a live website, since it can and probably will contain bugs!

More info in the topic below.

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March 20, 2012 at 1:32 AM #640

Frank
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The first preview of the FV Community News plugin is now available!

A quick overview of what this preview will bring:

  • Taking advantage of the custom post type.
  • Thumbnails! Yes, they’re back.
  • Tags.
  • Comments.
  • Easy to use form modification.
  • Integrated search support. Searching anything on your blog will also lookup the community news.
  • New short codes. ([fvcn-post-form], [fvcn-recent-posts])
  • And more to come!

Since the way posts are stored is changed completely, any community news you currently have in your database will be lost. Don’t worry though, a tool to convert them will be available with the official release.

Keep in mind that this is an Alpha Preview, thus this version is not meant to be used on any live blog. It is just to demonstrate you what the direction we’re going with it. This version might and probably will contain bugs!

If you find any bugs, please report them in this topic. If you have a suggestion to improve some details from this version, please also post them in this thread. If you have some large ideas, please post them in the feature request forum.

Installation instructions:

  1. Deactivate and remove any old version(s) of this plugin.
  2. Upload the new version and activate it.
  3. Use the widgets, or one of the short codes.

DOWNLOAD: FV Community News 3.0 Alpha Preview 1

A newer alpha version is available: FV Community News 3.0 Alpha 2.

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March 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM #658

Keshav Saini
Member

I installed the alpha preview on my local server and got following error after clicking on form tab “Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::add_help_tab() in C:\wamp\www\blog\wp-content\plugins\fv-community-news\fvcn-admin\fvcn-form.php on line 143″

Is this problem with my wamp installation or something is wrong with plugin installation?

Also on settings tab, there are no settings visible. Only Save Changes button is there. And when I click on save changes button, it takes me to wp-admin options page located at /wp-admin/options.php
March 23, 2012 at 12:41 AM #659

Frank
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The settings page does not exist yet in this preview :) .

The error does interest me however, since I have never seen it before. It is not a problem with your wamp, that’s for sure.
I think that you are running an old version of WordPress (older then 3.3).

March 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM #662

Keshav Saini
Member

I am using wordpress version 3.2.1 Does that mean the newer version will not be supported in wordpress 3.2 version?

I can’t upgrade my wordpress because most of the plugins I am using are incompatible with wordpress version 3.3
March 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM #663

Frank
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First, I would strongly encourage you to contact the developers of the plugins that are incompatible, and ask them for an update. Older versions of WordPress do not receive updates anymore, and might be vulnerable to attacks.

Second, I won’t be developing using an old version of WordPress, mainly because of that reason. But, if the error you gave before is the only error with 3.2, there is an easy fix.

If you open the file fv-community-news/fvcn-admin/fvcn-form.php, and scroll down to line 131, there should be the following lines of code:

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function fvcn_admin_form_help() {
    $screen = get_current_screen();

Now you will have to add some code so it looks like this:

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function fvcn_admin_form_help() {
    $screen = get_current_screen();
    
    // Pre 3.3
    if (!method_exists($screen, 'add_help_tab')) {
        return;
    }

This will basically remove the help tab on WordPress versions lower then 3.3 and thus remove the error you described before. This might not be the most elegant solution, but as I said before, I won’t be supporting older versions.

If after this ‘fix’ the plugin runs good on 3.2 however, I will put this in so the plugin will work on 3.2 without modifications. I hope you could test this and look forward to the hear the results.
March 23, 2012 at 2:39 PM #665

Keshav Saini
Member

That fix worked perfectly. The error is gone and the form fields are loading now. Will report back if I find something else. Thank You
March 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM #666

Keshav Saini
Member

There is a bug with user submitted news. I added a news with title “My test Post” and when I click on the link or I click on view post, it returns a 404 error. The link takes me to /fv-community-news/my-test-post and returns 404 error. I can’t figure out what’s happening?

What is the permalink structure of user submitted posts? Can there be an option to custom define the permalink structure so that we can optimize the permalinks for SEO?

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March 23, 2012 at 3:13 PM #668

Frank
Member

Try to go to the permalink settings page, just opening that page is enough. After that the link should work.

This is a known bug and still has to be fixed, but thank you for reporting it!

The permalink structure will be editable in the settings page of the plugin, but for know it is: /fv-community-news/post-slug/. Same goes for tags, currently they are at: /fv-community-news-tag/tag-slug/.
March 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM #669

Keshav Saini
Member

I already did that before posting. I went to permalinks settings page and clicked on save permalinks buttons just to ensure it can overwrite any error generated during plugin installation. But the community news posts are still showing 404 error.

My current permalink structure is /%post_id%/%postname%

March 23, 2012 at 4:32 PM #670

Frank
Member

I am not able to reproduce this. Could you disable all your other plugins and if that still does not work switch to the default theme?

That will give me an idea where to look for this error. If disabling your other plugins works, could you tell me what plugins you are using? Same for you current theme?

If this still does not resolve the issue I will have to do a little more research on it :)

Thanks!
March 23, 2012 at 4:53 PM #671

Keshav Saini
Member

Nothing above is working for me. Disabled all plugins, changed themes etc..

It appears to be incompatibility with wordpress version 3.2.1 I have an another localhost installation of wordpress 3.3 and there the post links are working fine. I added the same post to 3.3 installation and I can visit individual posts.
March 23, 2012 at 6:50 PM #672

Frank
Member

I tried it on a clean 3.2.1 install, but everything worked fine.

I’m gonna do some research on it and see if I can find the problem. Even though disabling your plugins did not help, could you list the ones you are using?
March 23, 2012 at 7:03 PM #673

Keshav Saini
Member

I am using following plugins

Akismet
Business Directory
Wordpress SEO by Yoast
Google XML Sitemap for Videos
Google XML Sitemaps
outbrain
SlideDeck for WordPress
WordPress.com Stats
WP-DBManager

I disabled all these plugins but the news links are still returning 404
March 25, 2012 at 12:24 PM #684

Keshav Saini
Member

Today I tested this alpha version with a fresh wordpress 3.2.1 install and I copied all plugins from my blog to imitate my original blog. I did this because you mentioned above that the plugin was working fine with your wordpress 3.2.1 install.

To make things same as with my original blog, I installed the same theme, plugins & settings in fresh wordpress install. Then I installed the alpha version of this plugin and it worked completely fine. I tried to install the same plugin on my other blogs and its working perfectly.

That leads me to the conclusion that the old database entries of this plugin might not be creating the problem. I will try to do a test on this scenario too.
March 25, 2012 at 2:01 PM #685

Frank
Member

It’s great to see that you are putting that much effort in it, thanks!

I have been looking over the code, but I was not able to find any errors related to this yet. Since on a clean install of wp 3.2 everything works fine, it isn’t a WordPress related issue. While I’m almost certain that this can not be the problem, does the original blog use any kind of caching?

I created another alpha version. There are a lot code enhancements in it, so I’m interested to see if that fixes it.
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