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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Hi there,
I realize that after installing the plugin my blog has been slower, i think. What do you think to be the reason and is there any suggestion?
Thanks in advance!
This is the kind of plugin I was looking for. Thanks Google to have brought me to this page. I’m going to try it and hope it will fulfill my needs.
Thanks.
Frank, dude… you are a superstar. This is a brilliant creation, I’m sure tons of work went into it, and you rock so hard. Thanks for sharing your plugin!
-J
I sent you a e.mail- but you never replied.
Plus it looks like you have totally dissapeared from this site.
I figured out it was the “Firewall” plugin I have. I had it set to “Block directory traversals (../, ../../etc/passwd, etc.) in application parameters.” I unchecked that and it activated.
Do you think I need to keep it unchecked now that it’s installed? Or can I reset it?
If you like just answer in email, you don’t have to publish these to clog up your comments.
I’m excited to check it out now!
I forgot to mention, WP 2.9.1
I was SO EXCITED to find this plugin! And then I installed it and as soon as I tried activating it I got this message:
arning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/climateg:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/climateg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fv-community-news/fvCommunityNews.php on line 482
Can you help me?
Hi
I’m not able to add the submissions and form to a static page. Can you pls explain me as soon as possible ?
hello, first i would like to thank for your helpfully plugin. and i want to ask you about picture upload.
when i try to upload an image, it said “The image you are trying to upload is too big.” what kind of big..size of pic..or size dimension..?
thx for your attention.
Way too confusing 🙂
what codes goes where? put this and that code there and here ????
code to page in wp editor?????
and language not working
Never mind I got it working
Okay- I have the plugin working, but I would like a page to show all the community links…..
The sidebar should only show around 5/6 links- but one can click into a page which will show all the links now and before.
Can this be done ?
your plugin is really usefull, but the search funtion won´t find anything created with the plugin. any hint?
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Hi, I been trying to paste the code on the page so I can use the submission on a page but when I look at it it only shows the same code, nothing is rendered, I try to do it on html and visual, nothing works…am I doing something wrong?
Hi, thanks for share it. I m trying to implement this plugin in my site http://www.dzinemart.com. but i am not able to accomplish it. I want to put the “new submission code” in my static About us Page. but its showing php code as a text. so can you help me.
If I wish to edit my submission, there does not appear to be a submit button. I go to Submissions/Edit and I am able to edit, but no update button. Is this just me or is it a bug?
Also i have tried to tighten up the Submissions by changing the css and nothing seems to work. Any advice gratefully accepted.
Does this support auto update of rss feed from given link, or it is manu every time from the users?
That was supposed to read h2 in tags, but it did not show up!
New at this, so forgive my lack of knowledge. This is a nifty plug in but on my site, it takes up WAY too much room. I checked out your buddy at DivitoDesign and his is nice and tight. Where can I change the CSS or whatever I need to in order to tighten up the appearance?
Right now the headings are
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This is a great plugin, many kudos. I noticed in the comments that you mention a forum to post questions but I can’t find a forum link anywhere. Should I post my questions here instead? If not, where?
Does this work in 2.9?
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its really good plugin and using it to submit news on my blog. It would be great if you help me about pagination. i.e. showing all News on a single page and want to display only 10 News a at time and paging should be there for other published News..
would it possible?
Hi,
in WP administration it’s impossible to save change in submission management.
WP ver. 2.8
Hi,
How do I set other language?
I have already translated a large part in Italian, but not display the translation
Hi everyone,
My name is Freddy and I’ve wasted nearly a month of my life on this place 😉 I found it after being recommended by a few friends who have been hanging out here for quite some time.
I am a writer, graphics artist, photographer and just about anything else that comes up around the office. Aside from the above interests i’m really into scifi as I know that is so much more out there to be discovered, and a feeling that the universe is just teaming with life.
Well, I hope that I get to know more people here, share some experience and start learning. Have a greay day!
Thanks for providing this plug in.
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Thanks will give this a try for my article website. will donate if his works out Thanks again
First, let me say I’m a total idiot…I can not figure out how to save a submission I had to do some minor editing to.
What’s up everyone, my name is Shaun. I’m new to the forum and just wanted to say hey. I hope I posted this in the right section!
When editing a submission there’s no “save” button?