Fv Community News Version 1.3
Posted by Frank on December 28, 2008After more then 1000 downloads, and a few weeks since the last update, it is time for the next level of this plugin. Improved Akismet, Translatable, and more.
Template Tags
A lot of people were asking for it, template tags for use in posts/pages. Well, here they are:
<!--fvCommunityNews:Form-->
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<!--fvCommunityNews:Submissions-->
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The first one will display the form, just as the widget does, but then within a page or post. The next one will display a list of submissions, as defined in the admin panel (under: Settings – Template). You can simply put these tags in your post or page, and thats all.
Uninstall Feature
While I was thinking what this plugin needs, I decided that it should have an uninstall function. Before, you could only deactivate the plugin through the wp-admin panel under plugins, but when that was done, all the data/settings still remain in your database and on your server. With this new Uninstall function you can remove all settings, and/or all data before you deactivate the plugin and remove all the plugin files.
Translatable
Before version 1.3, all text displayed on the screen, produced by this plugin was static data, you couldn’t change it. From now on the plugin uses the WordPress functions for displaying text, wich makes it possible for you to translate it and run the plugin in your own language. There are no languages included yet, but don’t hesitate to submit your own translation. I will include it in the plugin and would be very thankfull.
Custom Response Messages
Didn’t like the standard responses? You are now able to customize them so they fit for you. Go to Settings – Appearance, and modify all possible responses. Also a simple stylesheet is included to give the form a little style.
Improved Akismet
As of the previous (1.2 series) version, I included an Akismet class to fight spam. Unfortunately, this class was causing some serious problems at random servers. Because of this I searched for another solution, and found the MicroAkismet functions. These do work on blogs where the old class failed. I want to thank my friend Ivan, who made his blog availible for some tests.
Hi! It seems like the “perfect plugin”. But I have a problem: in the settings section, i cannot make any change, I make the changes, save, and then it reloads, but it doesn’t save any change.
=D too bad due that default option is without images, and I’d like to give posters option to upload images.
Is that a known issue? I’ve read a lot here and ther but can’t find anything.
Never mind. I just found it. It was the option on the style sheet. It worked but only after a while.
I need some help with the form. How do I make it wider. I searched on the styles sheet and I changed the “fvCommunityNewsForm input” from 170 to 400 pixels but it doesn’t seem to work. Where is the option that makes the form fields wider. Pls, I really need an answer
Great plugin, but unfortunately I had to go with TDO Mini Forms, as I was able to do the same thing, yet each submission was put into it’s own post within the category I specified, then paginate through wp_paginate plugin.
Please let me know if it’s possible to paginate with this plugin, because it would blow TDO Mini Forms out of the water if it could!
I did see that you’ve implemented template tags to place into a post, but I need each submission in a separate post within a category.
Thanks for the great plugin. I’ll be using it if I could only get it to paginate!
Any luck on pushing these submissions to a post? I noticed a category was created for them already… I don’t remember making it. If I could have these stored in a post I would be set to be able to paginate all of them.
Any other ideas on how to paginate? This plugin is great, but you could see my dilemma if 800 people post.
Also, when I click “Edit a submission” there is no option to save it? Am I missing something?
Hi: we are a small online community radio station.
we take pride in informing the Harlem community on topics, events that can lead to self-improvement and empowerment.
Question: Will you up date the plug in for Wp 2.9.2 and above?
Thanks for your great plugin.
I’ve had an on-again-off-again relationship with it. I had to abandon it at one stage because it just didn’t work on my site. I recently had another look at it and it is definitely on now (some bugs must have been fixed in the interim) — it’s working perfectly.
The only thing missing for me right now is the ability to separately control the number of excerpt posts on the widget and those on a dedicated page. I have a page where all the submissions are shown (and permanently archived), but I only want 2-3 excerpt submissions shown on the sidebar. It is not possible to do this now.
Would you be available to provide a fix for the above? Fee-free or fee-based, I am open to either possibility. I’m not a coder, but can be an uber cut-and-paster 🙂
Tags … work … great!
Thanks for the update, Frank. Nice one.
GREAT PLUGIN! However, is it possible to add a ‘star rating’ system to it?
Thanks for sharing. Gonna try this now on my website!
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BUG:
It’s adding an extra closing paragraph tag just before it closes the list element for both the first and last submission. All other submissions post correctly.
Also receiving several XML parsing errors.
It’s imperative that we can have different forms that users can use. As the above speaker say TDO mini forms can do this job for us.. but your plugin is more sleek and easier to use – so…
1. Form post to specific category
2. Posts as real posts (so one doesn’t need to redo a bunch of post-specific coding and templating.. :))
3. A “notify” on this page so i know when you might answer this. 😉
HI,
It a fantastic plugins but when I used the above code
it only worked for the articles but not for the pages
when its on the pages it only shows
Name * Email * Post Title * Post URL Description * Phone Number * Loading…
Do I have to configure anything
Cheers
Hi there, just wanted to stop by and say thank you for a wonderful and fully functional plugin. I am a developer myself and use this plugin everyday on my website. Thanks for all the hard work that went and goes into it.
Best Regards.
I’m not sure if I already suggested this.. but to make this plugin even more versatile, is the option of having more than one submission form and one output.. Thus someone might want the option to have 4 forms that will all produce separate outputs..
Like for the blog that I run, I would want individuals to submit technology news and I will post those submissions on my technology category page… and I would want individuals to submit in the politics page and I will have that displayed in the politics page..
This is such a great plugin, but for big blogs and magazine sites, the previous function is desperately needed..
Hi there, Frank
I think this is a superb plugin. One of the best ideas I’ve seen during my time using wordpress.
I wanted to translate the language file to spanish but it turns an error. Do you mind sending me a plain po file so I can translate it, please? I’ll send it back to you when it’s done so you can offer it or include it in the download for others to use.
Regards from Spain,
Frank Pereiro
Sorry, my english´s very bad.
I have 1.3.1 version and when put these tags in page (editing php) no show nothing, only commented php. Can help me?
After updating to version 1.31, putting it in my sidebar via the functions rather than widgets and adding rows and cols attributes to the textarea tag on line 69 of the fvCommunityNewsForm.php, I got it to successfully validate as xhtml 1.0 transitional.
Thanks again for your good work.
An option to add submissions as posts will be added 😉
@Mary
Thanks for the tip mary, will fix this as well.
@Jose Maria
These tags are for use in posts when you create them in the wp-admin. If you want to add tags using PHP, you should use the tags as described here.
@Frank Pereiro
File send. Great to hear you want to translate it. I’m not a hero when it comes to languages. 🙂
Thank you for this awesome plugin. I’m working on a local government citizen network community blog, and this plugin helps a lot.
In order to make the content section of my page load first, I did try putting the Javascript files for the plugin at the bottom of the page with add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘fvCommunityNewsHead’, 30) – substituting wp_footer for wp_head. This appears to work fine.
I had no trouble with Google Chrome.
After adding the 1.3 version widget as is, my site no longer validated with xhtml. I will try to both download the latest version 1.31. and work with the structure to see if I can get it to validate. (I don’t understand most of the code so I can’t go there.)
Thank you for all your work on this and for the anti-spam functionality.
Hello
Yes, I like this plugin a lot too and I am interested too into the same thing…to have it become a post (if wanted – meaning that I can check that in the post interface somewhere) 😀
Thanks!
thanks, this plug-in doesn’t seem to work well with Google Chrome, and unfortunately a significant amount of my visitors have elected to use this browser so I can’t use this plug-in.
Just a heads up.
Fixed :p
See this post
Frank,
I really like your plugin with one exception. I want to include submissions into the WP posts. I have used TDO mini forms which works like this, but I like you plugin better. Any way to add this function. Usually TDOMF adds the submission as a draft and when approved it is posted to WP like any other post.
This is a great thing to hear 🙂
So if I understand it right, you want the submissions go into the same DB-table as the posts? I wonder exectly why you want this, since submissions are other things then posts.. Anyway, I could create an option witch allows you to do this.
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