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 !

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121 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin – FV Community News”

[...] 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. [...]
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thanks for the plugin, good job!
igoy | May 13th, 2009
it could be more enhanced…there are very less options to configure it
PelFusion | May 3rd, 2009
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
itay | May 1st, 2009
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6 Ways To Add More User-Interactivity To Your Blog « DivitoDesign | April 27th, 2009
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.
Piotr | April 17th, 2009
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
Martin | April 3rd, 2009
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.
Amir | April 2nd, 2009
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!!
Frank Verhoeven | March 30th, 2009
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Ultimate Social Plugin for Wordpress: FV Community News » Blogussion | March 28th, 2009
Hi, great Tool.
It is possible to use the TinyMCE Editor?
Thunder-man | March 21st, 2009
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.
Gary Reichel | March 13th, 2009
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!
Valerie | March 11th, 2009
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CreativeApplications.Net » New Look CAN [News] | March 10th, 2009
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.
brainsolid | March 10th, 2009
Very nice plugin, i’ll try it
Camino | March 5th, 2009
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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
Stew | March 3rd, 2009
Hello i wan’t use widget, can i put it in the sidebar??
BYe
Thanks
Stew | March 3rd, 2009
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FV Community News WordPress Plugin | MUIOMUIO.NET | March 2nd, 2009
Just brilliant…
Thanks for the plugin. just testing it now. let you know how it drives…
boidus | February 27th, 2009
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
hagvist | February 27th, 2009
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
Nick | February 26th, 2009
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

GO FRANK!

8D

~Mikeumus
Mikeumus | February 26th, 2009
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This is almost exactly what I’ve been looking for! I would also love to see submissions as posts!!
Jeffrey Veffer | February 23rd, 2009
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!
Thomas | February 23rd, 2009
You rule. It’s nice that people actually develop useful plugins instead of the plethora of … well … quite unusual stuff. GOOD JOB!
Tommie Hansen | February 22nd, 2009
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..
Anders-Meyer Eldøy | February 21st, 2009
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?
Brandon Baunach | February 21st, 2009
How to i insert the form into a post or a page ?

And the same with the results ?
Gilbert | February 18th, 2009
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..
Nick | February 18th, 2009
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links for 2009-02-17 | This Inspires Me | February 17th, 2009
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!!
Richard | February 15th, 2009
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..
Nick | February 15th, 2009
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
OmeFred | February 14th, 2009
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Is there a way to have the news divided into several pages? Like after 10 posts a new page.
Sterf | February 9th, 2009
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!
Michael | February 8th, 2009
@Steve Young
I will add the option to complete customize your form in the next version.

@Jose Maria
See the post above:
```
<li>
  <h3><a href="%submission_url%" title="%submission_title%" rel="">%submission_title%</a></h3>
  <p>%submission_description%</p>
  <small>%submission_date%</small>
</li>
```
@Lex
Submissions can be added as posts in the next version

@Silvio
You can use this code:
```
<?php if (function_exists('fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions'))
    echo fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(Number, Template); ?>
```
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
Frank Verhoeven | January 30th, 2009
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.
Techie Zone | January 29th, 2009
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.
Silvio | January 28th, 2009
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tj mapes » Blog Archive » What I’m Reading (weekly) | January 25th, 2009
I would really like to know if the communities news can be regular posts to a predefined category.
lexx | January 24th, 2009
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?
jose maria | January 24th, 2009
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.
Steve Young | January 19th, 2009
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@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!
Frank Verhoeven | January 4th, 2009
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
Roy | January 1st, 2009
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.
mydesignbytes | December 31st, 2008
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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.
Gary Novosel | December 31st, 2008
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.
Gary Novosel | December 31st, 2008
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Hey, it’s all good now. Don’t know why it wasn’t working at first
Paul Dogley | December 30th, 2008
@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.
Frank Verhoeven | December 14th, 2008
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?
Paul Hockley | December 13th, 2008
Good post.
limbonk | December 11th, 2008
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
Zazo | December 7th, 2008
thank you
araba kiralama | December 6th, 2008
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
Frank Verhoeven | December 3rd, 2008
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.
Zazo | December 2nd, 2008
@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.
Frank Verhoeven | November 24th, 2008
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.
Brandon Pry | November 24th, 2008
Hello, excellent plugin here, is there any way to add a community news section to a wordpress page?
Justin | November 22nd, 2008
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Thanks for this – great idea.
palok | November 15th, 2008
I really love to try it out. This is something new
ty_hill | November 15th, 2008
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Create a RSS Feed with WordPress - Frank Verhoeven | November 14th, 2008
Yes I saw, I made a little mistake with the path to the images. A fix is on it’s way
Frank Verhoeven | November 13th, 2008
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
Zazo | November 12th, 2008
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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!
Frank Verhoeven | November 2nd, 2008
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!
neuville | November 2nd, 2008
Well, I actualy planned to create this for version 1.2, but pushed it up to the next version. Anyway thanks for the tip!
Frank Verhoeven | October 31st, 2008
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…
quick question | October 31st, 2008
hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards
baron | October 31st, 2008
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FV Community News FR, Rendez votre blog vivant ! | le blogueur masqué | October 29th, 2008
Nice solution
Frank Verhoeven | October 27th, 2008
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.
Tomas | October 23rd, 2008
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.
Frank Verhoeven | October 23rd, 2008
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!
Christopher | October 23rd, 2008
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.
Frank Verhoeven | October 21st, 2008
Thank You! for optimizing, I also gziped files, perfect.
Looking forward for the new releases , with the ‘edit title and description’ ability, …
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?
Thomas | October 21st, 2008
@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:
```
<a href="%submission_url%" rel="">%submission_title%</a>
```
Frank Verhoeven | October 18th, 2008
i have put these script in Templates section

%submission_author%, %submission_author_email%, %submission_title%, %submission_url%, %submission_description%, %submission_date%
Aquil | October 18th, 2008
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
Aquil | October 18th, 2008
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.
Tomas | October 16th, 2008
No problem, just view the source of your web page, right mouse > view source and locate the community news
Frank Verhoeven | October 14th, 2008
Forgive me, but what exact file should I look in?
JayTee | October 14th, 2008
@ crazyleaf
What you could do is make some modifications to your page.php template file. For example you could do something like this:
```
<?php if(is_page('681')){
echo fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(100);
} ?>
```
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.
Frank Verhoeven | October 14th, 2008
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?
JayTee | October 14th, 2008
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 …
crazyleaf | October 13th, 2008
@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?
Frank Verhoeven | October 13th, 2008
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? ;(
styletime | October 12th, 2008
Thank you, I appriciate. One of the best wp plugins ever, and I really mean that.
Thanks again.
Tomas | October 12th, 2008
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.
Frank Verhoeven | October 12th, 2008
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.
Tomas | October 12th, 2008
@ES
It also is already released Please visit this post for more information.

@Adam
Well who knows, maybe I will do this in the future.

Thanks for your comments!
Frank Verhoeven | October 10th, 2008
Wow! I’m looking that extension for joomla cms. Convert this plugin please Great work. This is popular.
adam | October 10th, 2008
Today is tomorrow.
E. S. | October 10th, 2008
This is implemented in version 1.1, wich will be released tomorrow
Frank Verhoeven | October 9th, 2008
Is there a way to require users to be logged in before they can post?
Don Ray | October 9th, 2008
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!
Frank Verhoeven | October 9th, 2008
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.
HimtoX | October 9th, 2008
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!
Frank Verhoeven | October 9th, 2008
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
HimtoX | October 9th, 2008
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)
HimtoX | October 9th, 2008
I think that’s a really good idea! And I defenitly will take a look at it.
Frank Verhoeven | October 8th, 2008
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?
fred | October 8th, 2008
Great blog. I like layout!!!!
Illilkfluok | October 7th, 2008
@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
Frank Verhoeven | October 6th, 2008
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
David | October 6th, 2008
A great plugin… it can give you lot of content for your website… There should be some improvement to combat the spam submissions
Computer security | October 6th, 2008
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!
Frank Verhoeven | October 3rd, 2008
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.
George | October 2nd, 2008
I’m happy you like it .
Frank Verhoeven | October 2nd, 2008
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 =)
Jeremy Newton | October 1st, 2008
Yes there is. You could use the following functions: fvCommunityNewsForm to get the form, and fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions to get the submissions.
Frank Verhoeven | October 1st, 2008
is there a way to manually add some code where you want the widget to appear in your sidebar?
matt | October 1st, 2008