Give the visitors of your site the ability to submit their news to you, and list it in a nice news feed.
Screenshots
The Moderation page, 100% integrated with WordPress.
Edit Community News, just like any other post.
Moderate the latest posts right on your dashboard.
General settings page.
Customise the form.
Widget displaying recent posts.
Widget displaying the form.
Below is a list of frequently asked questions.
Q: When I try to view a post it returns a 404 error.
A: Navigate to the Options > Permalinks page in your WP Admin and press save, this will fix the issue.
Q: I have a great idea for this plugin, could I make a suggestion?
A: Sure you can! Let me know about it.
Q: How can I contribute to the plugin?
A: You can open a pull request at GitHub.
Q: What to do if I found a bug?
A: Please report the bug to me as soon as possible. This way I can solve the problem and make the plugin better for everyone.
Open a new issue at https://github.com/frankverhoeven/fv-community-news/issues.
Installation Instructions
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it up & running.
Requirements
In order to successfully use this plugin, you will need the following:
- PHP 7.0 or higher
- 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).
- Enable the widgets, or use the shortcodes.
Widgets
There are three different widgets available:
- Form: Displays the form to submit a post.
- Posts: Displays a list of the most recent approved posts.
- Tag Cloud: Displays a tag cloud of community post tags.
Shortcodes
Shortcodes can be used in a regular post or page. There are three different
shortcodes available:
[fvcn-post-form]: Displays the form to submit a post.[fvcn-recent-posts]: Displays a list of the most recent approved posts.[fvcn-tag-cloud]: Displays a tag cloud of community post tags.
Theme Integration
It is possible to seamlessly integrate the plugin with your current theme. To do this
follow the next steps:
- Copy the contents of
/fv-community-news/fvcn-theme/ to the directory of your current theme.
- Modify the files you just copied to match your theme. By default the files are setup for the default WordPress theme (Twenty Seventeen).
And thats all! The plugin will automatically detect the new files and use those instead
of the default files.
Updating From Version 2
Version 2 and older are not compatible with version 3 and later. To convert your posts
to work with the new version, download the FV Community News Upgrader.
If you’re still using version 1.x, you will have to update to version 2 first.
For more details on changes, please visit the WordPress Trac.
3.3.1
- Improvement: Various small fixes and code improvements.
3.3
- New: Posts now have a like button so visitors can like your community news.
- Change: The old rating system was removed and replaced by a like system.
- Improvement: Various bugfixes & improvements.
3.2.2
- Fix: Various bugfixes & improvements.
3.2.1
- Fix: PHP 7.0 Compatiblity.
3.2
- New: The link and tags field can now be disabled.
- New: Advanced form options right in your wp-admin.
- Improvement: Theme compat improvements.
- Improvement: General code improvements & cleanup.
3.1.2
- Change: Now requires PHP >= 7.0.
- Fix: Links in the notification mail now correctly point to wp-admin if wp is located in a custom directory.
- Improvement: No longer replaces jQuery.Form shipped with WP.
- Improvement: New/minified javascript, moved to footer.
- Improvement: Minified css.
- Improvement: New dependency injection.
- Improvement: General code improvements & cleanup.
3.1.1
- Fix: Correct (de)actiovation hooks
3.1
- Fix: WordPress 4.9 compatibility
- Fix: Post info can be edited again
- Improvement: Code cleanup
- Improvement: Various bug fixes and enhancements
- Improvement: Relaxed the very strict form validators
