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WordPress Plugin – FV Community News

Posted by Frank | 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 Community News” Page – Allow registered users to view their submitted articles.
  • Customizable templates
  • Akismet Spam protection (API key required)
  • Build-in RSS 2.0 Feed
  • Settings Page
  • Uninstallation – Not the right plugin for you? You can easily remove it completely.

How To Install & Use

In order to successfully use this plugin, you will need the following:

  • PHP 5 or higher
  • WordPress 3.0 or higher

Installation Steps

  1. Download the files
  2. Upload the files to /wp-content/plugins/
  3. Activate the plugin (WP-admin > Plugins > FV Community News)
  4. Browse Community News > Settings to select the settings you prefer.
  5. Go to Design > Widgets to add the Community News widgets to your sidebar.

You can also show your Community News on a static page. You can do that by placing the following codes on a page that supports PHP.

Add Form

1
<?php fvcn_form(); ?>

Latest Articles

1
<?php fvcn_list_posts(); ?>

Archive

1
<?php fvcn_post_archives(); ?>

If you are not familiar with PHP, and you want the Community News to be shown on a WordPress page or post, you can use the build-in tags for that. Make sure you are using the HTML editor while adding these tags!

Add Form

1
<!--fvCommunityNews:Form-->

List Posts

1
<!--fvCommunityNews:Posts-->

Archive

1
<!--fvCommunityNews:Archive-->

Custom Templates

Every blog out there has different requests and needs. With version 2.0 and up, the plugin supports custom templates so it can meet all of those needs. Creating your own custom templates is simple, and more information on this can be found on the Custom Templates page, dedicated to this topic.

Example

If you would like a live demo of the plugin, be sure to check out DivitoDesign.com. The plugin has been running there for quite some time now.

Bugs

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! You can do this on the bug reports forum.

Help Needed?

If you need any help, or have problems with this plugin, please create a post on the support forums.

Plugin Info

AUTHOR: Frank Verhoeven
AUTHOR URL: http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/
WORDPRESS VERSION: 3.0+
TESTED UP TO: 3.3.1
CURRENT VERSION: 2.0.3

Change log

If you are interested in the changes this plugin has had, please check out the changelog on the official WordPress page.

Download

DOWNLOAD: FV Community News

Support

If this plugin is helpful to you, please consider supporting it! You can help it’s development by making a small donation, or promote it by putting a link to this page on your site. Appreciate it!

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September 30, 2008

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  4. Waheed Akhtar Says:
    May 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM

    Hi,

    I am using this plugin on my blog and thanks for this great plugin.

    I have news section in my sidebar (rightside) for post pages and it shows full description for every news. I want to limit the description words (e.g. 100) in the sidebar.

    Any help is much appreciated.

    Thanks

    • Frank Says:
      May 29, 2011 at 1:35 PM

      Hey Waheed,

      You will have to create a custom template, see this page for more info.

      Modify the list-posts.php file and replace fvcn_post_content() with fvcn_post_excerpt().

  5. Job Says:
    May 28, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    FV Community News is a very nice plugin, but the RSS feed doesn’t run: “page not found” on mysite.com/fv-community-news-rss, is there a solution ?

    Thanks

  6. Job Says:
    May 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    Ok, it runs if I tape mysite.com/?feed=fv-community-news-rss , strange because I have permalinks activated. Anyway, thank you from FR for this awesome plugin ;)

  7. Job Says:
    May 29, 2011 at 8:16 PM

    Hello Frank, I have just a little question: when a user posts news via FV Community News, the form closes (from bottom to top) without any confirmation message, is it possible to add a little message ? Thanks !

  8. Job Says:
    May 30, 2011 at 2:35 AM

    Sorry but I have a little problem: On Internet Explorer and Firefox, when we click on “submit”, the news is submitted but nothing happens on the form, the user doesn’t know that it has worked because the form doesn’t close :/

    All is fine on Chrome. I presume that there is a problem of compatibility but I don’t find it…

    You can test on the URL I’ve let on my comment, I’ve put a moderation so do not hesitate to see by yourself if you have time ;)

    Thanks

  9. samuel Says:
    June 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    Hello,
    I’m using your plugin,
    it works just perfectly but I wanted to load the new’s form by ajax and at this time the java doesn’t handle the submit event so I had to change the binding method by “live” in add-posts.js
    $('#fvcn-add-post').live('submit',function() {

    Maybe this little improevement can interest you ?

    Samuel

  10. jo Says:
    July 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM

    Hi, I m havving difficulty changing the number of news posts on my page. I have read your read me text. On my page I have the code :
    I cant add the php scripts to the page, what am I doing wrong?

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  15. Leanne Romak Says:
    September 7, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    I am very happy with this plugin, but I am unable to edit Submissions. I can go into Edit mode, but there is no update button. The rest of the site is editable from the WordPress dashboard. Thanks.

  16. Leanne Romak Says:
    September 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM

    Sorry, ignore my last question, it was a server side issue causing the button to be missing. Thanks again for a great plugin.

  17. Shane Craig Says:
    September 19, 2011 at 5:23 AM

    You know, if you added the ability for users to vote submissions up and down you’d have that reddit/digg cloning plugin so many of us have been looking for.. ;) Tremendous plugin though!

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  26. Andriy Molchanov Says:
    March 8, 2012 at 2:10 AM

    Hi there,
    I’ve got some problem with your plugin.
    I could not see the previous & next numbers of news posts on my page. I’m already put all your codes to my word press page and I can see form, news posts but not Archive. Can I get any help? Thank you.
    Andrew.
    My word press page you can find here: http://www.mississauga.ru/объявления/?preview=true&preview_id=56&preview_nonce=7e01eb0e48

    • Frank Says:
      March 8, 2012 at 1:51 PM

      The pagination will appear when there are more then ten posts. (The archive will display ten posts per page)

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