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.
• 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 Update: You can use standard HTML or the built in Wordpress 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 %%awsomnews%%. 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.
• 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 multiple news announcements, along with the possibility of randomly presented announcements (with number of presentations of each cataloged), or announcements tailored to specific groups or visitors.

Here’s are images of the Admin Manage page for adding News Announcements:

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