AWSOM News Announcement Version 1.4.5
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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.
- 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 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 %%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:
May 5th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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June 14th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Tad bit late to comment on this plugin. Now that one AWESOME plugin. It worked on my Wordpress blog like a charm. Cool creation.
June 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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June 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Can’t wait to try this plugin! Why haven’t I tried it yet? It’s taking forever and a day to upload it to my server! :-)
May I suggest scraping TinyMCE from the plugin install? ;-)
June 28th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hi, I would remove the tinyMCE from the plugin, but the default one in WordPress does not play nice with the plugin, so you would lose this functionality from it. I will release a new version soon though that removes some files from the current embedded version which should help reduce the file size/upload time. I may also distribute a “no Visual Editor” version of the plugin for those of you who never use it.
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July 8th, 2008 at 8:17 am
AWSOM News Announcement…
AWSOM News Announcement allows you to post news announcements in the area above your posts (or anywhere else you want) and edit it using the Visual Editor or code editor, all from the Wordpress admin area. You can select who sees your posts (only non-r…
July 8th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Been having trouble with this plugin when it says update available and when I try auto update the plugin altogether disappears. D/l the latest version from here and giving it a go. Its a very useful plugin and does a great job even with banner ads. Great work.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Hi, this is a bug/problem in WordPress itself. It’s actually misreporting that there is an update for this plugin and downloading a *different* plugin and erasing the News Announcement plugin. I need to see why they are flagging things wrongly.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
As far as I can see it doesn’t support foreign languages. We run a Chinese radio station and I needed to put an announcement up in Chinese, but just got a load of question marks when the page was displayed. If you could make it support other languages it would make it a lot better for a lot of people… (and let me know when it does! Thanks!)
July 11th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
By default WordPress itself does not support multi-language input, but my plugin is actually neutral and uses whatever the default language type your mysql server is set to use. This is normally utf8. The problem is that there is no universal language field in mysql, so if I choose asian or russian, then english wouldn’t work right or vice versa. The easiest way to handle this is to go to your mysql server and change the language type for the news post field. I’ll write up a tutorial on how to do this and add it to the troubleshooting page.
July 12th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Thank you very much for answering my comment so quickly, and for writing a tutorial. Such a good response you don’t usually get even for paid services!
The only quibble I have is, I am using Wordpress already and have been writing in both Chinese and English. They both work, but the plug-in still doesn’t display the Chinese characters.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Just what my Wordpress blog needed. However I am missing the timestamp of reach news. I wanted to display the date of the announcement.
Your code is a bit to complicated for me to hack it. May I suggest you include this in the next version?
July 13th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Peter: How did you get WordPress to display Chinese? Did you use one of the plugins that add this capability? What they typically do is rewrite your basic database fields to the correct language type. Since mine are custom add ons it wouldn’t know to alter those. When I add the database fields to the database I use the generic WordPress command to do this, which picks the standard language type that your database uses. Besides that tutorial (which will be up this week), I’ll see if there is anything else I can do to make this more customizable.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Martin: Hmmm, I normally would have guessed that people would have just added that themselves into their posts since the posts are pretty generic and can be done any way you want. I could easily add this in though, along with a “posted by” statement, which would replicate the way regular WordPress posts are done–I’d make this display optional and set in the admin menu. I’ll add it to the dev list. Thanks for the feedback.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
It was a while back when I set it up, and I set it up on the normal Wordpress hosted site, but if it asked me when I created the account, “what is the primary language to be used?” then I would have put Chinese in the drop down box. If Wordpress doesn’t ask this, then I just set it up normally and wrote the blog in Chinese, (using Microsoft pinyin IME) as I normally write stuff. I don’t use any language plug-ins. In fact a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t even know what a plug-in was!
July 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
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