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
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Or help promoting it by adding a link to this page, definitely appreciated
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[...] 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. [...]
10 Next-Gen Plugins to Pump-up your WordPress Site | May 19th, 2009thanks for the plugin, good job!
igoy | May 13th, 2009it could be more enhanced…there are very less options to configure it
PelFusion | May 3rd, 2009hi 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
itay | May 1st, 2009urs itay
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6 Ways To Add More User-Interactivity To Your Blog « DivitoDesign | April 27th, 2009Hi,
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, 2009Hi,
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, 2009Very 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, 2009Hey 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[...] FV Community News allows your visitors to help you create more content for your site! A simple, yet ingenious plug-in to really incorporate your reader’s opinion and boost your site’s value, content and even SERPs. [...]
Ultimate Social Plugin for Wordpress: FV Community News » Blogussion | March 28th, 2009Hi, great Tool.
Thunder-man | March 21st, 2009It is possible to use the TinyMCE Editor?
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?
Gary Reichel | March 13th, 2009I know it takes a lot of time to build a plugin, so thank for your efforts.
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[...] FV Community News Let visiters of your site post their articles on your site. [...]
CreativeApplications.Net » New Look CAN [News] | March 10th, 2009Cool 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, 2009Very nice plugin, i’ll try it
Camino | March 5th, 2009[...] Community News plugin [...]
15 Incredibly Useful Wordpress Plugins to Boost your Blog « the gypsy | March 4th, 2009Hello nice plugin, but i wan’t use the widget per my site, please can i put it in the sidebar by code?
Stew | March 3rd, 2009Bye Thanks
Hello i wan’t use widget, can i put it in the sidebar??
Stew | March 3rd, 2009BYe
Thanks
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FV Community News WordPress Plugin | MUIOMUIO.NET | March 2nd, 2009Just brilliant…
boidus | February 27th, 2009Thanks for the plugin. just testing it now. let you know how it drives…
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, 2009would 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, 2009Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
GO FRANK!
8D
~Mikeumus
Mikeumus | February 26th, 2009[...] http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/ FV Community news, una buena alternativa a tumblr… [...]
Hosting gratis, editor vectorial online, FV community plugin… | Formación en Saregune | February 24th, 2009This is almost exactly what I’ve been looking for! I would also love to see submissions as posts!!
Jeffrey Veffer | February 23rd, 2009Hi,
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, 2009You 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, 2009Could 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, 2009i’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, 2009How to i insert the form into a post or a page ?
And the same with the results ?
Gilbert | February 18th, 2009I 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[...] Wordpress Plugin – FV Community News – Frank Verhoeven (tags: blogging wordpress plugins) [...]
links for 2009-02-17 | This Inspires Me | February 17th, 2009Great 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, 2009would 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, 2009Neem 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[...] Community News plugin [...]
15 Incredibly Useful Wordpress Plugins to Boost your Blog | February 11th, 2009Is there a way to have the news divided into several pages? Like after 10 posts a new page.
Sterf | February 9th, 2009Thank you very much for this nice plugin! I implemented it into a static page of mine that supports php with the code you mentioned
Michael | February 8th, 2009Now 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!
@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
Frank Verhoeven | January 30th, 2009Hey 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, 2009Great plugin, very very userful!
Silvio | January 28th, 2009I 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.
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tj mapes » Blog Archive » What I’m Reading (weekly) | January 25th, 2009I would really like to know if the communities news can be regular posts to a predefined category.
lexx | January 24th, 2009hi, and tnxs for plugin…one question only (sorry, my english´s very bad)…how to put template into “php” fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(Number, Template);
jose maria | January 24th, 2009Can give example please?
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[...] FV Community News. With this new Community News plugin you allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar. [...]
WordPress Plugin: FV Community News | January 17th, 2009@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, 2009I 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
Roy | January 1st, 2009thanks for your attention
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[...] FV Community News [...]
En.nicuilie.eu Blogs » Top 1000 WordPress Plugin Authors | December 31st, 2008Never 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, 2008If 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[...] FV Community News [...]
4webmasters » Top 1000 WordPress Plugin Authors | December 31st, 2008Hey, 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
Frank Verhoeven | December 14th, 2008Can 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.
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, 2008Good post.
limbonk | December 11th, 2008First 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, 2008thank you
araba kiralama | December 6th, 2008Hi 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, 2008Did 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, 2008I 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, 2008Hello, excellent plugin here, is there any way to add a community news section to a wordpress page?
Justin | November 22nd, 2008[...] http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/ [...]
Howto: Create A Community Link Feed for your WP | November 21st, 2008Thanks for this – great idea.
palok | November 15th, 2008I really love to try it out. This is something new
ty_hill | November 15th, 2008[...] Community News [...]
Create a RSS Feed with WordPress - Frank Verhoeven | November 14th, 2008Yes I saw, I made a little mistake with the path to the images. A fix is on it’s way
Frank Verhoeven | November 13th, 2008After 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[...] FV Community News – Este plugin permite aos seus utilizadores que adicionem artigos na sidebar ou noutro local do seu blog. Este plugin oferece ainda uma página de gestão e uma de configuração, sendo que poderá controlar tudo aquilo que é submetido. [...]
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Best Design Resources of October 2008 | CrazyLeaf Design Blog | November 2nd, 2008Hi 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, 2008hello, 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, 2008Well, 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, 2008i’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, 2008hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
baron | October 31st, 2008[...] 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. [...]
FV Community News FR, Rendez votre blog vivant ! | le blogueur masqué | October 29th, 2008Nice solution
Frank Verhoeven | October 27th, 2008Thanks 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, 2008Hi 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, 2008This 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, 2008Good 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, 2008Thank You! for optimizing, I also gziped files, perfect.
, with the ‘edit title and description’ ability, …
Thomas | October 21st, 2008Looking 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?
@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
Frank Verhoeven | October 18th, 2008You should also add the html. So if want the link to the post, you should do something like this:
i have put these script in Templates section
%submission_author%, %submission_author_email%, %submission_title%, %submission_url%, %submission_description%, %submission_date%
Aquil | October 18th, 2008chk 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, 2008Can 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, 2008No problem, just view the source of your web page, right mouse > view source and locate the community news
Frank Verhoeven | October 14th, 2008Forgive 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.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
Frank Verhoeven | October 14th, 2008Thank 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.
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, 2008How 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
Frank Verhoeven | October 13th, 2008Witch 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?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, 2008Thank you, I appriciate. One of the best wp plugins ever, and I really mean that.
Tomas | October 12th, 2008Thanks again.
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, 2008Great 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.
Tomas | October 12th, 2008I need core functionality not sounds.js at my website. Thanks.
@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!
Frank Verhoeven | October 10th, 2008Wow! I’m looking that extension for joomla cms. Convert this plugin please
Great work. This is popular.
adam | October 10th, 2008Today is tomorrow.
E. S. | October 10th, 2008This is implemented in version 1.1, wich will be released tomorrow
Frank Verhoeven | October 9th, 2008Is there a way to require users to be logged in before they can post?
Don Ray | October 9th, 2008Yes 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, 2008Thanks again Frank. It works great now with the “echo”.
HimtoX | October 9th, 2008There 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.
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, 2008Add: I checked the widget again and I know this is strange because the widget(which works fine) use the same function.
HimtoX | October 9th, 2008But when I tried to use it alone as you discribed above it didn`t work.
Thanks for support
Thanks a lot Frank for your great plugin.
HimtoX | October 9th, 2008I 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)
I think that’s a really good idea! And I defenitly will take a look at it.
Frank Verhoeven | October 8th, 2008plugin 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, 2008Great 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, 2008Hey 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, 2008A 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, 2008Well 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.
Frank Verhoeven | October 3rd, 2008Thanks for pointing this out!
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, 2008I’m happy you like it
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Frank Verhoeven | October 2nd, 2008Awesome 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, 2008Yes there is. You could use the following functions: fvCommunityNewsForm to get the form, and fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions to get the submissions.
Frank Verhoeven | October 1st, 2008is there a way to manually add some code where you want the widget to appear in your sidebar?
matt | October 1st, 2008