Add More Interaction To Your Blog – The Community News Plugin

Written by Stefan Vervoort on September 30, 2008

When I was developing this new theme, I wanted to add more user interactivity to the site and to create a dynamic sidebar. A user that visits once in a week should find different articles and more related stuff.

That’s why I looked for a Community News plugin, a plugin that allows users to add articles they thought were relevant to the blog, and allow me to moderate them.

I couldn’t find this kind of plugin anywhere, so I looked at my buddy Frank Verhoeven with some sweet puppy eyes. He agreed and developed a wonderful plugin that allowed me to do everything I wanted and this plugin goes beyond!

FV Community News plugin for WordPress was born!

Features

The current feature-list is awesome and there’s more to come:

  • Widget Ready (Different form/results widget)
  • Moderation panel (with email option) – Make sure you approve the right articles
  • Customizable templates
  • Captcha Spam protection (on/off)
  • Settings


FV Community News – Settings Page

Add More Interaction To Your Blog!

If you want to get more people to be active on your blog or you simply want more related articles (= more content) for your visitors, be sure to download this plugin.

Read more information on Frank’s FV Community News and be sure to keep track of Frank’s blog for more interesting plugins. Did you know he developed the great Code Highlight plugin I am using on DivitoDesign?

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This article is written by:

Name: Stefan Vervoort

URL: http://www.divitodesign.com

Description: I am a 18-year-old webdesigner and blogger from Waalwijk, the Netherlands. I also blog at WPTOY and work at DivitoMedia.

4 Responses

  1. Sander says:
    September 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Great plugin! Does it also work with cformsII? and does it has a seperate rss feed? Good luck with the promotion of this community plugin!

  2. Stefan Vervoort says:
    September 30, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Thanks, I passed the message! It doesn’t have a seperated rss feed just yet, but that’s promised in the next version!

    It works with cformsII :)

  3. Lilian says:
    October 1, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Very fun plugin – love that it’s such a personal way to get involved with the design community :)

  4. NeornoNdews says:
    February 6, 2009 at 4:17 am

    Hello. Your site displays incorrectly in Explorer, but content excellent! Thank you for your wise words.