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Newspaper

Newspaper is the plugin to use to get information around your server as quickly as possible.

Information

Newspaper is used to help notify users on your server about what is currently going on. You can edit the newspaper accordingly, going with what is happing on your server. For example, you could say 'Vote for our server at [link]' or 'New PvP server has been released!', then the majority of the players on your server would know about all of these events, just by reading the newspaper.

Installing the plugin itself is easy. Just drag the .jar file that you downloaded into your server's plugins folder, and do the same with any addons. Once it's installed, you can start up the server, and use all of the features as you would with any other plugin.

Permissions/Commands

newspaper.admin: Access to all admin actions, such as creating a [News] sign
/news | /newspaper: Base command for newspaper
/news [book|map]: Get the newspaper in the form of a book or a map
/news [reload]: Reload the newspaper config file

Features

Type /news to get the newspaper, in the form of a book or a map!
Create a [News] or [Newspaper] sign to get the news with!
Charge money to buy the newspaper
Easily spread the word about important information
More coming soon!

To-do List

SQL support to view news on your website
Color support for maps
Message on join
Custom newspapers in separate .txt files

~~Written out newspapers on maps (not sure if i still should)~~
~~Improve color system~~
~~Soft-depend on Vault~~

Known Bugs

Restarting the server resets all newspaper maps

Creating a Newspaper

Maps

You will need to go into the map.txt file, and edit it accordingly. You may need to mess around a bit, otherwise the map cuts off the text. That's why it's recommended to start new lines often so that everything shows up on your newspaper. Keep in mind that color symbols aren't currently supported on maps.

Books

With books, it's easy enough. Edit the news.txt file accordingly, and if you need to start a new page, insert '=== NEW PAGE ===' on it's own line. Color symbols are supported for books, any '&' symbols you make in that file will show up as colors in the newspaper.

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Posted Jul 6, 2014
Please!!update to 1.7.2

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Posted Jun 27, 2014
Are you going to update for 1.7.9 any time soon?

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Posted May 26, 2013
@saxons12

try Editing it with Notepad++

Better than Notepad

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Posted May 26, 2013
how to make a newspaper map? like:

/news map

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Posted May 17, 2013
I have edited the news.txt but when I type /news I get and empty book. Why is this happening?

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Posted Apr 28, 2013
@ursak

Yeah, as of now, you will need to order a new newspaper map after the server is restarted.

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Posted Apr 28, 2013
"Restarting the server resets all newspaper maps"

My server does a rscheduled restart once every 24h. Does this mean that if I use maps as newspaper I'll not have any news to read after the restart?

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Posted Apr 23, 2013
@bobbshields

Update your server computer to java seven.

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Posted Apr 23, 2013
Hello, this plugin sounds very nice but is not working on my server. My server is running git-Bukkit-1.4.7-R1.0-94-g141dcf0-b2735jnks (MC: 1.5.1) (Implementing API version 1.5.1-R0.1

And here is the console output at load:
11:51:59 [SEVERE] Could not load 'plugins/Newspaper.jar' in folder 'plugins'
org.bukkit.plugin.InvalidPluginException: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: me/KeybordPiano459/Newspaper/Newspaper : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:184)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:305)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:230)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R2.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:239)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R2.CraftServer.<init>(CraftServer.java:217)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R2.PlayerList.<init>(PlayerList.java:55)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R2.DedicatedPlayerList.<init>(SourceFile:11)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R2.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:105)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R2.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:379)
at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R2.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:573)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: me/KeybordPiano459/Newspaper/Newspaper : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass0(PluginClassLoader.java:80)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:53)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:173)
... 9 more

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Posted Feb 23, 2013
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Did you set the newspaper's contents?...

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Posted Feb 22, 2013
for some reason its coming up blank when players buy the newspaper?

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Posted Feb 19, 2013
@RifFox

That wouldn't be a bad idea, I just added it to the changelog :)

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Posted Feb 13, 2013
Hello!

Is it possible to add more newspapers? something like typing /news gives player a book with default text (from news.txt), and /news {name} gives a book filled with text from {name}.txt

Thanks for a great plugin!

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Posted Feb 8, 2013
@elnawe

Lol, do you have a stack trace or the console log or anything? It's been working for me.

@x_clucky

That isn't the purpose of this plugin really, I'm probably not going to add it.

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Posted Feb 8, 2013
Hi, I have a report. My server says this: "The UpdateChecker URL is invalid! Please let KeyboardPiano459 know!"

Now, you know :)

EDIT By the way, nice plugin!

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Posted Feb 8, 2013
Is it possible to make this plugin hook into a twitter feed? Because that would just be simply amazing!

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Posted Feb 6, 2013
@MiachBiatch

The thing about that is that with the command, you can only set the newspaper to one line. I'm going to try to come up with a more sophisticated way than with a command, and I have one in mind.

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Posted Feb 6, 2013
Oh, and is it possible to be able to edit the news.txt file command-wise, so I can give a permission node to my admins so Im not the only one able to change the newspaper?

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Thanks :)

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Posted Feb 6, 2013
@KeybordPiano459

Excellent, I look forward to it!

And thanks for the quick reply, you do a good job!

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