Dear Morten,

thank you very much for the great plugin. All my news pages have the heading “Archive: News”. Where can I change this text?

Thank you in advance!
Amin

I am working on a site which has 10-15 posts daily – I want to show the posts “grouped” by date.

01 March 2024
post 1
post 2
post 3

02 March 2024
post 4
post 5
post 6

How can I do this by changes in Shortcode.

• This topic was modified 8 months, 3 weeks ago by srinivasrjy.

Hi, I wanted to display articles for each category.

I use these [news number=4 col=4 cat=diy]

However, all my categories is displaying all the same articles.

Could you please help me with this?

Hi!

after i updated the plugin, the pictures on the frontpage suddenly are VERY big, i have no idea what happend… Any clue?

regards.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by guardian1983.

Добрый день, Мортен!

Создала одну рубрику ?Новости?.

При при ‘has_archive’ => false  в меню рубрики ?Новости? нет анонса записей этой рубрики.

А при ‘has_archive’ => true   в меню рубрики ?Новости? появляется Archive: NEWS с записями,

При редактировании записи в структуре ее URL есть элемент ?news?.

Простите, вопросы элементарные, но у меня они вызывают трудности, так как программированием не владею, к сожалению.

Буду очень благодарна, если поможете ввести в действие Ваш плагин. С уважением, Наталья.

We have been using this plugin for about a year. And it works great.

We use [news]

It displayed the news as a block with an image on the left and a short text on the right.

But about 2-4 weeks ago (not sure with exact time, maybe around update to version 2.8) it changed and now it shows the news as a block with an image on top and a short text below that.

Now we are using WP 6.1.1 & simple-news 2.8

Do you have no idea what could have happened?

Can it be something with simple messages or something with WP?

I would like to use the Simple News plugin to only display the latest3 news articles on my sites’ homepage (from newest to oldest). Currently I use the shortcode: [news col=3] for the layout, but the moment when a new article is published it is added to the next row in the first column, resulting n showing 4 articles.
Please advice if it is possible to only show the latest 3?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by loeries.

Hi,

I’m wondering if it’s possible to use this plugin on two separated pages on my website? I have one page called “news” and the other one called “blog”, and I wanted to upload a new piece either to the “news” or to “blog”. Is it possible to achieve this?

Thanks!

I have installed the Simple News plugin but for some reason it is not posting the most recent news post, it only shows the second most current and beyond? As a quick fix I am having to post a “blank” news post as the most current so the actual one will show? Any thoughts on why? I’m just using the [news] shortcode to post.

I have created the page using the Divi Theme and the Theme Builder Function to display [News] on this page. I just need the most recent post to show, but it is not showing the most recent.

Hello, thank you for the great plugin. However, I would like to change the slug: Instead of / news /, I would like to use a different term. How and where can this be set? Thanks in advance for your help!

The domain on the website was changed from LauraHenryConsultancy.com to LauraHenryAllain.com and now the news items will not display when you click on them – i.e. the list shows but when you click to read more it tells you that the link is faulty.

This is happening to old and new items and I can’t find where to fix this – can you help please?

Hi,

I am trying to grab the News Tags and list them in my News Archive

This is what i got in my function simple_news_loop_custom() in my Themes functions.php:

// Get Tags
$args = array(
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order' => 'ASC'
);
$tags = get_tags($args);
$html = '<span id="news-pill" class="badge badge-pill badge-secondary"><i class="fas fa-tag"></i> ';
foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {
    $tag_link = esc_url( get_tag_link( $tag->term_id ) );
             
    $html .= "<a href='{$tag_link}' title='{$tag->name} Tag' class='{$tag->slug}'>";
    $html .= "{$tag->name}</a>";
}
$html .= '</span>';
if ( !empty($tags)  ) :
echo $html;
else :
    echo 'no tags';
endif;

I built in the Troubleshoot “no tags” and that is what i get for all my NewsPosts (Yes, I did create the Tags in the Admin area.

————–

For Categories I used (and it works fine):

// Get Categories
$categories = get_categories( array(
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order'   => 'ASC'
) );
 
foreach( $categories as $category ) {
    $category_link = sprintf( 
        '<span id="news-pill" class="badge badge-pill badge-secondary"><i class="fas fa-folder"></i> <a href="%1$s" alt="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
        esc_url( get_category_link( $category->term_id ) ),
        esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts in %s', 'textdomain' ), $category->name ) ),
        esc_html( $category->name )
    );
    echo $category_link; 
} 

Can you please enlighten me on how to to this? ??

Cheers

Hi Morten,

thanks for this tool that I am using for quite a while now. Nevertheless, I have never changed the default settings until today. Now I tried to follow your instructions but I do not understand this step: “Use the shortcodes on a published page”. I am using the Sydney theme and added the Simple News widget to the sidebar. I am able to define the number of shown news there but I canot add any shortcuts. Also, when selecting “Settings” / “Simple News” in the navigation strip in the admin section, I do see some explanaitions of the exitsting shortcuts but I am not able to set them. Maybe you could explain a little bit more where to set the shortcuts.

Thanks a lot,

Peter

This is very weird. I’m having an issue with a page that’s supposed to display news pieces but instead these errors come up:

Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/customer/www/datacoral.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-news/news.php on line 149

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/customer/www/datacoral.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-news/news.php:149) in /home/customer/www/datacoral.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sg-cachepress/core/Supercacher/Supercacher_Helper.php on line 79

Notice: Undefined variable: new_template in /home/customer/www/datacoral.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-news/news.php on line 159

So I deactivated SG Optimizer, but no change. So meantime when WP Debug is off, I just get the white screen of death and I’m not sure where to debug.

I made simple-news-hr_HR mo and po file, my wordpress instalation is in Croatian but I can’t change the language. Can you help me please?
Thank you in advance

i get this error:
Notice
Undefined variable: new_template in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/simple-news/news.php on line 174

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by mostafafarsi1399.

I’ve included the plugin. Nothing went wrong, plugin works fine. Only one thing is strange: In the header i’ve created a menu with wp’s function wp_nav_menu, but the link/url from the navitem news is wrong https://domain/blog/news/ – it has to be https://domain/news/ How can i fix this problem?

• This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by danielwer.

Hello

How can I display news published date in news post itself? ??

I want to use simple news plugin for my wordpress website. But I could not understand how it works or how to use the codes. It will be helpful if there any video tutorial. Would you please help me with this issue? Thanks!

Hi, I wanted to try new shortcode feature but whatever I put, e.g. [news] or [news number=2], I do not get any output, just two space characters. Currently, I am using shortcode of Post Sliders & Post Grids and it displays news correctly. Any idea?

I really like the plugin, but I would like to see an option to show the content of the news post in the widget. Right now, the widget is showing the excerpt – without formating. I would like to have clickable links appear in the news widget. Thanks!

PS: As of now, I am just changing the specific line in the function.php to
<div class=”simple-news-excerpt”>’ . get_the_content() . ‘</div>’;

Hello. I have installed this plugin, and I am able to get the listing displaying without any issues. However, when selecting a link to one of the news articles, it returns a blank white screen. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot and/or fix this?

I know how to use shortcode or a widget to specify the number of news items displayed. However I prefer the look of the news page the plugin creates by default when not using shortcode or a widget. Unfortunately, doing it this way displays exactly five news items (one row of four and one row of one) where I’d rather have eight (two rows of four) for a balanced look. Great plugin. Do you have a donate button anywhere? TIA

Hi

I have a custom theme with archive-news.php and single-news.php which provides styling for the news pages. Worked great in 2.2 however site auto upgraded to 2.4 and a grid with snippets appeared instead of the custom theme and no matter what I tried it just kept appearing. The single page style still works.

Inside the plugin the following file has been added. /templates/archive-news.php. Once I realised this I found news.php L119.

// $template = dirname( __FILE__ ) .’/files/templates/’. $file_name;

Commenting out this line allows my theme style to apply again. It appears applying a template in this way does not allow a theme template to be applied later.

Hope this helps.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by chrisc99.

Hi, after updating to version 2.4 the same problem as in https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/category-view-broken-after-update-to-version-2-1/ occurred again. I had to revert back to v2.2.

Also, there is one strange thing (I realized it only now, but is even with v 2.2) that if I click on most current news item (and the issue is only for this one) and it opens, I have comment section below it (section id=”comment-wrap”) although I do not use WP comments. I use wpDiscuz instead and only for regular posts. Surely, I can hide this section via css, but maybe it is something that should be fixed too.

Hello, thanks for the great plugin. Before the latest update the news page had a white background that made the text legible. As it is now, the plugin seems to be using the default background color. Can you help me revert to the white background? TIA Bill

Hi, Awsome plugin but I need to change the look of the news page but couldn’t find the coding in the plugin editor. please help!!

I tried to edit the page but it creates a duplicate URL and the changes do not reflect on the news page.

I am using elementor to design the page. is it compatible?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Hello,
I just tested the plugin and seems great.
I would like to know if it is possible to add the news automatic only by URL, not adding the title and little abstract. For example, there is another plugin that do that for inside the posts: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/visual-link-preview/
Makes a new “square inside the posto with: title, thumbnail and little abstract, automatic.
It would be wondeerful if we could do something like that

Hi thanks for the plugin. Now i need to display category names for every news which i have shown in the above url. Thanks in advance.