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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hello Frank,
Is there a way to archive old submitted news items? I want them to be found back sometimes.
I created a special page for my commnity news http://speakerheadz.com/speakerheadlines
But I don’t want this page to contain hundreds of news items so people will have to scroll all the way down.
Thank you.
I am facing problems with the RSS feed with Feedburner, has anyone experienced this earlier?
You can forget my last comment. I found the bug in my call to the get news function.
First of all, thx for your hard work, it’s really saved my blog!
Does someone know if there is some way to include the posted submissions in the search results?
Please help
thanks
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I’m testing this plugin in my **password-protected**, WPMU 2.8.5.2 test environment.
I can submit links no problem and see them on the Submissions page, also no problem. However, when using fvCommunityNewsGetSubsmissions (I’m not using the widget), each submission’s url has my test env’s domain name appended to it in a peculiar way.
For example, suppose I had submitted this article. The submission’s link should be:
https://frankverhoeven.me/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/
And in the Submissions page, that’s what it is. But when displayed in my test blog’s sidebar, the url changes to become (on mouseover):
http://mytestdomain/\”https://frankverhoeven.me/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/\”
And of course, clicking the url results in a 404 as the extra characters get encoded.
Any ideas how to get rid of this? It completely renders the plugin unusable 🙁
I installed & activated the plugin. When I added the form code to the submit news page, it did not create a form…the code posted.
Also, how do I get the submit news form on the side bar? (like you have here on your site).
Thank you very much for the plugin…I hope you are able to help me to get it functioning properly.
I believe I have installed everything properly.
but in my wordpress sidebar the word “Template” comes up – instead othe actual template materials…
I have tried manually addind the template commands in the php string (#, template commands), but that does not work.
The forums link would not work so I posted here.
appreciate some help
thanks
Great, plugin, congrats 🙂
Just a question, there is a way to add just a “Submit” button in the sidebar (below the submitted news) and the submit form in a new page?
Thanks.
Sergio
How to use it in cyrillic?
i want to tank for this plugin.I have a little problem,i have submited new article but it doesn’t appear in my site..can someone solve this problem ..i don’;t figure it out . 10x
Весёлые посты у вас выходят, но они выходят очень не часто 😉
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Hi, I’ve installed your plugin in my website, but I have a great problem with validator.
The output code isn’t valid!
I made some modification, but your plugin add a before the closing and I don’t know where it happens!
The link to my User Link Feed is here:
http://www.lesenfantsterribles.org/user-link-feed/
Thanks for any help.
René
Прочитала статью и вспомнилось несколько крылатых фраз ” Время – наилучший учитель жизни.” Вот уж точно, ведь еще и полгода назад я и понятия не имела о многих “словечках” из этой статья, а сейчас уже подросла немного как блоггерша, можно и нос поднять кверху. И вообще порой время тянется так медленно, что кажется, что оно остановилось. В такие моменты я залезаю в интернет и времени просто не хватает+ да и у вас блог, должно быть отнимает уйму времени.
code is – if (function_exists(‘fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions’))
echo fvCommunityNewsGetSubmissions(10);
I have put code in my sidebar file “” but it is not showing news description.
What is wrong?
good one but can be enhanced by improving the configration
Thanks for this plugin it’s great. For some reason not displaying in Opera on my site. Works find in all the other browsers.
This is a terrific plugin! Thank you for this.
One question – how do I get the “My Submissions” page to show up? I selected it to display in the settings area, but I have no idea how to lead users to the page.
A very nice plugin – can you ad photo-upload?
Great plugin, however there is no submit button on the edit submissions page and I can’t seem to get the rss feed to work for the life of me after I changed the url. It kinda puts a damper on listing all submissions with simple pie.
Any ideas?
the form works, i also can aprove the news, but no news are displayed?
Hi,
it’s me again 🙂
I resolved the problem, deleting in fvCommunityNews.php the line that loads jQuery.
Now it works fine.
Thank you for the plugin. If you need the Italian translation, let me know…
Hi,
first of all I beg yur pardon for my bad English…
I’ve installed your plugin but it seems there are some conflicts with other plugins in WordPress.
If you look at this image
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/9809/letoff.jpg
you can see that everything works well. The slider works, the tabbed interface in sidebar works etc.
But when I active your plugin this is the result:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3020/leton.jpg
The slider disappeared and the tabbed interface doesn’t work at all.
Maybe because your plugin loads another copy of jQuery? Maybe for another and strange reason?
Do you think it can be fixed or not?
Regards,
René
Hi Frank,
This is exactly what I am after however, initially could post news until manually tranferred plugin and activated but now can post and approve but cannot see the results in the sidebar – can you please help such a great idea!
These comments are a pain to go through. Firstly, let me just say THANK YOU and give you kudos for the great plugin. I actually need this exact plugin, BUT it definitely NEEDS a few updates (assuming many folks are beginners when it comes to css and php):
1) option to have the news submissions to be actual posts (posts which show up in the admin–>posts similar to TDOMF that can be edited by the admin/editor of the site); the default option can be as-is simply with limited edit capabilities (admin–>submissions)
2) option to determine what category the news gets labeled as. For example, I would like to create a category called “user submitted news” and all submissions can default to that category. Though, if you gave the option for these submissions to show up in the admin–>Posts section, then the admin/editor can easily edit and assign any category they want to the submission. Another reason why that option would be ideal.
3) an instructions manual (i would be happy to help you write this if you get in touch with me). For example, how do I make the php-enabled page? how do i change the a href link of the title go to the page on my site where the entire submission exists, and not the url provided by the user? etc etc.
4) All the commenters here need to use the FORUM so all suggestions/hacks/code/plugin-related issues/etc can be in one place. I think the author already suggested this.
I am posting here this first and last time. All future suggestions and issues will go to the forum.
Of course, COMMENTS are fine here.
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Hello! I have a problem with the news submission plugin. I have the plugin in my sidebar. It shows 15 submissions and it’s ok. But on the page, on the submission page I want to show them all. For the moment are 15 and i don’t know how to make to show all submissions on the page and only 15 in the sidebar. Can you help me?
Great Plug-in, nice job.
Suggestions:
1. Eliminate the !important declarations from the CSS, as well as most – if not all – of the styling. Some parts of it are redundant.
2. Make the jQuery optional.
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