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!
Is this confirmed to work with WP 3.0?
I’ve installed the php code on my static page and haven’t done much else. It shows the default Post Title *, Post URL, and Description * fields. When I fill out the form it tells me all “You didn’t fill in all required fields.”
Am I missing something simple?
Thanks!
While I think the plugin should work correctly, it might have some issues. But, version 2.0 is on its way!
Great post, blogging is all about sharing news and views and this site does a great job of it.
I love this plugin and use it with my membership site.
I tried to make the submissions show on a page, but the php will not work.
Can you share the code that will allow it to be on a page using html?
Thanks
Hello, Frank, congratulations for your useful plugin.
After testing it, some ideas about future improvements:
-While editing the news there is not a button to save changes.
-While editinig the news there is not a way to change the picture.
-When trying to upload an image bigger than allowed, it would be nice that the message says the limits.
-Template: I try to start the description by the author or the date, but the field %submission_description% inserts always a change of line.
-When submitting a news, the frame to write the title and the description are very small. It would be fine if I could enlarge it in the configuration.
-After the list of news it would be useful to be able to navigate between pages permiting to consult past news.
-I would be cool if I could create categories to class the news (even to add a widget to navigate between categories.
It’s all for the moment. Best regards,
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I figured out that other problem. Just a simple fix of putting the template tag in the url.
Does anyone have a solution for integrating pagination for the submissions?
Thanks!
Hi,
I am currently using WP v3.0 and I was having trouble when I installed the plugin. Is there any plans to have it ready for this version in the near future?
Thanks,
Niall
This plugin certainly rivals TDO Mini forms, though I think it’s actually way more intuitive and easy to use than TDO. Thanks very much for you efforts.
My issue – and I looked through each comment to see if it had already been addressed – is that the image is not showing – only the url image path is showing. Would this be a simple issue to fix?
I would like to implement it in my css gallery in some way, allowing users to upload images.
Thanks very much for your time!
Justin
It seems that the plugin doesn’t work in Firefox, the form looks terrible and some labels are missing. Also, the feed doesn’t work either. Any idea?
Ok, a default image will work ok. It would be nice to have a trick to strip out the image all together though. Just a thought! Sorry to post so many questions in a row, but I’m needing to plunge through this project today if possible.
I have everything working great… I think the one thing I don’t know how to get going quite yet is how to paginate all these “submitted stories”. I’m guessing thousands of people are going to be hitting this site, so I am going to research how to accomplish this. If anyone has any ideas that would save me time I would LOVE you!
Woot! I read the documentation in WordPress and the images are showing up fine now. Just had to create a folder in the root directory named wp-fvcn-images, and modify the template in settings to include . I still haven’t figured out how to have the image display only if one exists.
How can I display the image uploaded only if one exists?
I’m having trouble uploading images. They don’t show up in the backend? Any ideas what I’m doing wrong? I’m using the template tags to insert the form and list the comments, but no images are showing up?
is there a way to make every submission a blog post?
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very good..
Hi there,
I’m not sure why, but the submissions aren’t appearing anywhere and I can’t find instructors on how to instruct the plugin to direct the posts to a certain page. I activated the Submissions page but that’s not showing up either. I also don’t understand why there is a url box for submitters. Not many people will understand what they’re supposed to put there – I don’t. Please help.
Laura
I hope you’ll soon update this great plugin, I’m using WP 2.6.5 and FW ver. 1.1 as I had problems with FW ver. 1.3, after updating some plugins 2 months ago, I receive submissions via email but there is no submission listed in “show all” or “awaiting moderation”
Thanks!
Ran into a conflict problem between FV Community News and Simple:Press Forums.
FV Community News seems to load an older and minimal copy of the jQuery javascript code and it is being loaded from the Google JS library.
This is older, and incorrect version, It seems to be loading when not needed and is almost certainly the cause of my Simple:Pres other jQuery plugins to stop working.
Turn off FV Community News, and all works fine.
🙁 – I really liked FV Community News – Anyone know of a similar plug-in out there?
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Thx for your awesome plugins frank, i’m from Indonesia.I realy love your plugins.. 😀
Thousand thanks for you.
Would love to try this plugin on our site, unfortunately not able to download from wordpress.org – has it been taken off? Thx!
Looks like a great plugin! Unfortunately was not able to download it from wordpress.org link – also does it work with WP 2.9? Thanks so much for this much needed plugin.
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Hi,
Great plugin! Is there a way that i can show this “news” like post in the home of the blog?
Regards
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