WordPress Plugin – FV Community News
Posted by Frank on September 30, 2008Many 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 (PHP 7 recommended)
- WordPress 4.8 or higher
Installation Steps
- 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.
If you want the Community News to be shown on a WordPress page or post, you can use the build-in shortcodes for that. Put any of the following shortcodes in a page or post to show corresponding item:
Form to add news
[fvcn-post-form]
List of Posts
[fvcn-recent-posts]
Tag Cloud
[fvcn-tag-cloud]
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.
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: https://frankverhoeven.me/
CURRENT VERSION: 3.2.1
WORDPRESS VERSION: 4.8+
PHP VERSION: 7.0+
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!
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?
How to i insert the form into a post or a page ?
And the same with the results ?
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..
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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!!
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..
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
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Is there a way to have the news divided into several pages? Like after 10 posts a new page.
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!
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.
@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 🙂
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.
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I would really like to know if the communities news can be regular posts to a predefined category.
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?
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.
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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
@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!
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.
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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.
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.
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Hey, it’s all good now. Don’t know why it wasn’t working at first 🙂
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?
@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.
Good post.
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
thank you
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.
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 😉
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.
Hello, excellent plugin here, is there any way to add a community news section to a wordpress page?
@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.
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Thanks for this – great idea.
I really love to try it out. This is something new
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