AWSOM News Announcement Version 1.5.2
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For information and instructions on how to set up this plugin please go here. To read the troubleshooting guide go here.
Some of the features of the AWSOM News Announcement plugin for Wordpress are:
- Easy to Install: Just add the plugin to your plugin folder and activate–your News Announcement area is now active without any more effort on your part.
- Easy to Manage: You can have as many News Announcements as you want saved in your admin area. Turn them on or off when you need to show them. Reuse common announcements and save time. Also, optionally set Authors or Editors as able to manage your News Announcements if you wish. Quickly track how many times your posts have been viewed. You are in control and can see everything from the Admin area in one spot.
- Easy to Inform: Display your News Announcements to exactly who you want–select from: only Non-registered visitors (excellent to show ads ONLY to people not registered on your site), or any level of registered users (Subscribers, Contributers, Authors, Editors, or Admin only). Keep certain features of your site visible only to a certain level of user (especially good with the run php option so that only certain people can see mp3 or video player modules).
- Easy to Set and Go: You can set your announcements to display starting on a certain date and ending on a certain date. Great for Ads or Upcoming Events./li>
- Easy to Update: You can use standard HTML or the new embedded Advanced Visual Editor to add your News Announcement text.
- Flexible Locations: Besides the default location above your posts on the index page, you can now place the announcement within posts or pages using the code %%awsomnews0%%. These are both in addition to the custom placement option of adding a simple code directly to your theme file to display your News Announcement. With The News Optional Location System you can have up to 8 other specific locations that will only display Posts you set for those locations or posts set to “all locations”.
- Run PHP: You can optionally run php code from the News Announcement area also, so now any audio or video player (or any other plugin type that uses php code) can run in your news announcement area. Use the AWSOM News plugin anywhere you want to place php or javascript code.
- Usability Focused: “Edit News Post” link appears on the webpage when an admin or “manage options” level user is logged into the site so you can go directly to the Manage AWSOM News admin page to update your Announcement quickly.
In fact the AWSOM.org news announcement area on the index page of AWSOM.org (“Welcome To the AWSOM.org website!”) uses this module. The future roadmap for this module will be to add support for Time of Day based presentations, along with the possibility of randomly presented announcements (with number of presentations of each cataloged), or announcements placed within the Loop of Posts.
Here’s are images of the Admin Manage page for adding News Announcements:
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please add rss feed for news or add Email Subscription for following news
Hi,
This is a great plugin! Thank you! I was wondering if you could tell me how to modify the php code so that the plugin only shows on the home page. I am using the Atahualpa theme on WP v. 3, and typically the code for showing things on the home page is <php if (if_front_page) . . .
I'm not sure how to integrate this with the code for your plugin, however. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks again!
I’m sorry, the code should be not if_front_page…
Usually you’d want to use is_home() then place the awsom news theme code within the if statement and place this in your index. Php theme file.
Turn off the default location setting in the awsom news setting page to have the area only show up where you place the theme code.
Hello:
Just installed plugin v4.6.1 and have created a gallery that i had to set the absolute linking to get the thumbnails to show, then when i click on the thumbs i get the Error 404 page. Using WP 2.9 with the DarkMystery theme. Reset the them to deafault and deactivated all plugins except pix gallery. The site is in a “wordpress” directory as a test on my client’s server until it’s all approved. Set the “cache” and “uploads” permissions to 777. Anything i missed?
I would guess first off that you are running your site on a windows server. That’s generally the scenario that causes this issue. They have weird issues with relative pathing. Try changing the cache path to add a / at the beginning. You may also have to play with the pixgallery code itself in your page, remove the first or final / in the code.
Generally I try to compensate for these issues, but some server configs really confound the setup of pixgallery by using non-standard interpretation of environment variables.
It’s on an Earthlink server. I tried your suggestions in many ways though still have had no luck with the actual images displaying beyond the thumbnail.
Here’s the debug:
fullpath = /netapp/whnas-silo1-node2/s7/s7/01141/www.goldwellmuseum.org/webdocs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/residents03/
gallery path = wp-content/uploads/residents03
Collection path = /
ContentParentPath = /
ContentParentUrl = /wordpress/residencies/alumni/wordpress/?px=%2F
CollectionRootPath = /
Pixgalleryitempath = wp-content/uploads/residents03/
PathParts =
Image name path =
And by the way, you are the only one that’s ever answered one of my plugin questions. I appreciate your support.
Is this on a dev system? Or is it on a live site? If it’s something I can see I might be able to figure out the issue. Post a link to the page or email me a link using the contact form.
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I got the link to work. This is the only way I’ve found to get a PayPal link to work. Here’s my second problem Is there a way to put more than one link on a page? Right now I have 2 products I want to sell, and when I try to enter 2 code links only one link displays. Thanks for any help.
Hmmm, I’ve never tried to add 2 page codes in at once. Did you set each code as a separate location number? I might have to do something special to get multiple codes to be understood and correctly displayed now that I think about it.
I’ll look into it.
Thanks for responding.
Info for you to know:
Yes I did set each code as a location number. You’ll notice on the site the first item displays the “add to cart” (that one is location2)
Then below that first “add to cart” you’ll see the text of the second code showing location1 but it doesn’t seem to activate the code it just shows the text of the code.
I’ve played around enough with the settings to know that both codes work individually But when both are put on a page only the first one listed will activate displaying the cart.
I can see where if you were only needing one link like a “donation” it would work fine.
This is my test site to figure out these things and the person I’m wanting to use the code for on his site will eventually have multiple products to list and sell so this is pretty important.
Thanks for your help.
Dandy
In previous response forgot to list my page for you to see what’s happening… http://dandycomputercreations.net/products/
thanks
Than you for this plugin !
please, this plugin is not support for arabic language how can i use it for arabic?
also i need to the news in a one row to make it as the cnn news bar, can i make it
Hi,
The plugin does not set the type of language used in WordPress–it relies on your set up to determine this. In some cases your server will default to using Swedish as the database field it creates for new entries. What you will need to do is have your server admin go into your WordPress database and find then entry for awsomnews and switch the type from Swedish to your language, or to UTF8.
As for set up and location–you can use the theme codes to place as many news boxes in a row as you’d like. It’s displayed in the admin page–just set each box to a different number (0 through 8) and assign a specific news post to each location.
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Great Pluggin. Thanks.
Two questions.
1. is the pluggin compatible with WP 3.0?
2. As you know, Arabic is written right to left. When using this pluggin, it messes up certain things (e.g. putting a period in the atmost right rather than the atmost left). is there a solution for this?
thanks
Hi,
The plugin is 3.0 compatible (as far as I know). No reports on problems.
Um, I don’t know about the Arabic thing. I know about the reverse in direction, but I have no idea how that would affect the plugin, or how to fix it if it is causing issues. Generally the plugin is designed to display whatever text is entered into it. If you can enter the text properly it should display the same way. The one issue that can occur is the database field for the plugin could be improperly set to the wrong language type. You’ll need to check the database directly to see if it’s set to Swedish. If so then change it to the proper Arabic language.