New JavaScript Used
Posted by Frank Verhoeven | Filed under Wordpress Plugins
Hey everyone.
After adding version 1.3, I received a few notifications about the javascript. It gave errors, wasn’t compatible with most plugins and/or themes and just sucked 
My decision was to update the complete javascript used with version 2.0, since that one is going to have a complete makeover. However, more and more emails came, telling about the JavaScript. The problem seems to be worse then I was thinking, so an early patch for the javascript is already available.
I removed the Prototype framework for compatibility, since most themes and plugins are using jQuery. Now the Community News plugin does too. It uses the jQuery lib that comes with WordPress itself. I hope this will improve the compatibility. Also errors which occurred in the old javascript are fixed.
March 11th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
That kinda suck since i’ll be using Mootools for a coming project and intended to use FV Community News for it. However all the JS maybe isn’t REQUIRED? …
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Awesome plugin. The only thing I would suggest is giving it a way to have its ‘own’ unique wordpress blog url outside the normal post hierarchy (perhaps something like http://myblog.com/fvnews/article_name_here) and a comment section to go along with it!
One other useful feature may be allowing owners option for users to upload OR url link to existing images for thumbnails.
Other than those suggestions, excellent work and I look forward to the next release!