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!
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Thnx for the plugin. I have installed it but i have some problems with turkish characters. How can i deal with this problem? Thnx
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Hi, I really like this plugin and have had no problem using the widgets in the sidebar, but I would like to put the add form and the latest submissions in the body of my page. I have put the “add form” php codes onto the page, and it seems to work. The problem that I am having is that the php code suggested at the top of this post yields the following message on my site:
“There are no submissions added yet, be the first.” even after I have added a submission and approved it. I have tried a number of approaches, but what I have done at the moment is put the following code on my page:
Next, I went to the plugin settings and added the following template tags:
%submission_author%, %submission_author_email%, %submission_title%, %submission_url%, %submission_description%, %submission_date%, %submission_image%
After taking these steps, as mentioned, I can see the “add form” but for submissions I only see “There are no submissions added yet, be the first.” I am not a coder and am stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
Mark
Hey Frank,
Great plugin. When will be the new version of solution about You wrote 30 January?
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thanks for the plugin, good job!
it could be more enhanced…there are very less options to configure it
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
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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.
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
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.
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!!
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Hi, great Tool.
It 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?
I 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!
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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.
Very nice plugin, i’ll try it 😀
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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
Hello i wan’t use widget, can i put it in the sidebar??
BYe
Thanks
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Just brilliant…
Thanks 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
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
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
GO FRANK!
8D
~Mikeumus
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This is almost exactly what I’ve been looking for! I would also love to see submissions as posts!!
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!
You rule. It’s nice that people actually develop useful plugins instead of the plethora of … well … quite unusual stuff. GOOD JOB! 🙂
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..