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!
Hi Frank;
I would like to add image submission to the standard template. Where is the template that I need to modify? thanks mark
Hey Mark,
With version 2.0, the support for image uploading had been dropped. If you really need it you could use the older, 1.3.1, version.
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Oh, one other question: can you limit it to registered users, and if so, of a certain user level? Seems like if not, it would fill with spam.
If not in the plugin, would it work to out the submission for on a page that can only be viewed by a registered user of a specific level? I believe there are plugins for doing that.
The entries are kept in a table just for the plugin. Spam protection is build-in, and can even be configured to work with Akismet.
If that still does not filter out all the spam, you can require posters to be logged in.
This plugin looks fantastic. I’m wondering if the entries are kept in the post table or another table specifically for this?
Suddenly today the news headline font is different and BIG and headlines won’t allow use of anything but alphabetic or numberic characters. That eliminates apostrophes, dollar signs, etc. etc. What happened???
Hi,
I just updated the plugin today and I cant edit the settings. There arent any to edit actually!
I want to change the word count that is visible on the sidebar and the amount of posts seen on the ‘view news page……..
Hey Jo,
Some of the options have been removed in version 2.0. The reason for this, is the new custom template feature.
This feature allows you to make the changes you want, and a lot more! While it is not documented very well at this point, some information on it can be found in the readme.txt. (I couldn’t wait with the release until the documentation was done 🙂 )
The code you need to modify the number of posts is the following:
Where you change the 5 in the number you want on your site.
Please let me know if you have more questions, and I will try to answer them as soon as possible!
Frank
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Hello and thank you for very good plugin
I wonder how come I can read my two page only 5 News?
can I change number of news, if so where?
Can I give information on email (only links and news title .. no email)?
Thanks
Hallo und danke für sehr gut plugin
ich habe 2 fragen wieso kann ich meine Seite nur 5 News lesen?
kann ich anzahl news ändern, wenn ja wo?
Kann ich auf Email angaben verzichten(nur Links und News Titel.. kein Email)?
Danke
Hey, awesome plugin !
is there a way to call news from a specific user, using user id or username ?
Cheers
Hi there
Can you give me an indication on when your new version will be out? Or can I download the beta 2 version and try that? Is is stable?
I will try this plugins for my site 😉
Hi there
I have exactly the same problem as the guy above. I have installed the plugin, added the widget to my side bar and it does not show up any are where visitors can ADD NEWS and submit it? I added news from the back end, but I can’t do it from the front end website.
I am on WP 3.0.3.
I have been searching for WEEKS for a plugin that does exactly what yours does. Please help me to get it working.
Thank you 🙂
Is it normal that in 1.3 I was able to modify/translate different sentences directly from the setting and now that I use 1.4 I can’t anymore? Looks like many settings have disappeared?
What is the best way to translate?
I have run through all the set-up steps and I can’t see any way that visitors can add their submissions to my web page. Please help me!
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Hi – this is a great plugin. Is it possible to make the articles open in a new window and not take the reader away from your site when they click the submissions?
Many thanks
Hi, your plugin is awesome. If somebody has any problem with it, I made a detailed tutorial about how to create a community section with this plugin.
http://www.psdbox.com/tutorials/create-a-community-news-section-in-wordpress/
Hi there,
I have implemented this plugin on my blog page here
http://www.boostinspiration.com/community-news/
I am showing form and all approved submissions on same page. I want to know if there’s any way to show pagination for submissions ?
Thanks. Looking forward for your reply
Pagination is added with 2.0, take a look here for more info.
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hi Frank,
how are you ?
how can i show the last comments from FV Community News in other web page ?
Do you have a html or php code ?
Thanks.
I would rather have that form on page section than widget… so what a code or what installtion shortcode i can use to embed form to the page?
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Is it possible for users to post to the main loop?
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Hi frank
What do i do?
I am using yafpp and i installed your plugin.It worked perfect but yafpp not working.When i deactivate your plugin .Yafpp works.
When i activate you plugin and go to main page .Yafpp shows me this error:-
/wordpress2/feat-1072 was not found on this server.
Guide me.I want to use both plugin.
Thanks
nice plug in but i couldn’t see the uploaded image, only the url of the image. how to fix this?
Use
🙂
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cool plugins, is it compatable with wp 3.0?
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