FV Community News Version 1.1

Posted by Frank | 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.

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8 Comments » | October 10th, 2008

8 Responses

  1. styletime Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Hi Frank

    Thanks for the great plugin and new version so quick is it just me or? if you put more than the max number of allowed characters in the description it breaks the rss feed?

    Missing as the entry ends with …

  2. Frank Verhoeven Says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 12:57 am

    I am already busy with version 1.2. That new version includes a whole lot of new features and it’s almost finished :-)
    About the RSS.. I have noticed some more problems with it, and I will take a good look at it as soon as possible. There is however already fixed something with the break function, but I don’t know if this also will fix your RSS feed.

    Thanks for your comment!

  3. Wordpress Plugin - FV Community News - Frank Verhoeven Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    [...] Version 1.1 Version 1.2 [...]

  4. fulfill Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Hi Frank,

    Is there a way to add category section to the news submission? that would be great if users can select what category news belogs from the list of options.

  5. Frank Verhoeven Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Hi,
    Yes I think that is possible. Working on it ;-)

  6. fulfill Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    Frank,

    You rock…you are the best…

  7. Jimmy Says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 1:23 am

    Having another issue Frank. Now both community new form and community submission forms show up with only the news form being able to be edited. They also won’t move when I change them in the widget side bar.

  8. Frank Verhoeven Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Hey Jimmy,

    Do you have any caching plugins running? If so, you should clear the cache and reload the page.

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