Latest version: 1.4 .2 (Updated on 24 June 2010)
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Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect, manage and display your favourite quotations on your WordPress blog. All quotes or a set of quotes can also be displayed on a page using a [quote] shortcode. The plugin is similar, and uses ideas from (though not based on) the old wp quotes plugin by Dustin Barnes.
Features
- Random Quote sidebar widget with Ajax refresh feature — you will be able to get another random quote on the same space without refreshing the web page. Following is the list of options in the widget control panel:
- Widget title
- Option to show/hide quote author
- Option to show/hide quote source
- Turn on/off the ajax refresh feature
- Choose random or sequential order for refresh
- Option to refresh the quote automatically
- Show only quotes with certain tags
- Specify a character limit and filter out bigger quotes
- The template function
quotescollection_quote()can be used to display a random quote in places other than sidebar. Click here for details about the parameters that can be passed on to this function. - Quotes can be displayed in a page by placing a shortcode such as the ones below.
- Placing
[quote|all]in the page displays all quotes. [quote|author=Somebody]displays quotes authored by Somebody.[quote|source=Something]displays quotes with source as ‘Something’[quote|tags=sometag]displays quotes tagged sometag[quote|tags=tag1,tag2,tag3]displays quotes tagged tag1 or tag2 or tag3, one or more or all of these[quote|id=3]displays quote with ID 3[quote|random]displays a random quote
- Placing
- The plugin comes with a nice admin interface to add, edit and manage quotes.
- The plugin is compatible with WP 3.0 multi-site functionality.
Screenshots
Click on the thumbnail for the larger image.
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- Widget Options
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- Admin Panel to manage and add quotes
You can find a live demo of the ‘Random Quote’ widget at the sidebar here!
Download
The latest version of the plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin repository. (changelog)
Released for free under the GPL.
Donate
Please make a donation and support development. Any amount accepted with thanks.
Localization
Versions 1.1 and greater support localization. As of the latest version, localization is available in the following languages.
| Code | Language | Translator |
|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | Ahmed Alharfi |
| bg_BG | Bulgarian | Martin Petrov |
| bs_BA | Bosnian | Vukasin Stojkov |
| by_BY | Belarusian | Илья |
| cs_CZ | Czech | Josef Ondruch |
| da_DK | Danish | Rune Clausen |
| de_DE | German | Tobias Koch |
| es_ES | Spanish | Germán L. Martínez (Gershu) |
| fa_IR | Persian | Ehsan SH |
| fi_FI | Finnish | Jussi Ruokomäki |
| fr_FR | French | psykotik |
| hi_IN | Hindi | Ashish J. |
| hr_HR | Croatian | 1984da |
| hu_HU | Hungarian | KOOS, Tamas |
| it_IT | Italian | Gianni Diurno (aka gidibao) |
| ja | Japanese | Urepko Asaba |
| lt_LT | Lithuanian | Lulilo |
| lv_LV | Latvian | Maris Svirksts |
| nl_NL | Dutch | Kristof Vercruyssen |
| pl_PL | Polish | Marcin Gucia |
| pt_BR | Brazilian Portugese | Tzor More |
| pt_PT | Portugese | Djamilo Jacinto |
| ru_RU | Russian | Andrew Malarchuk |
| sr_RS | Serbian | Vukasin Stojkov |
| sv_SE | Swedish | Julian Kommunikation |
| ta_IN | Tamil | Srini |
| tr_TR | Turkish | Gürkan Gür |
| uk_UA | Ukrainian | Stas |
| zh_CN | Simplified Chinese | 天毅许 |
If you can translate the plugin in your language, please do, and please send me the localized file so that I can add to the next version of the plugin. The localization template file (quotes-collection.pot) can be found in the ‘languages’ folder of the plugin. If you want to translate the plugin in your language, but are not sure how to go about doing it, contact me, I’ll help you out.
Feedback & Support
Bug reports, feature requests, suggestions, appreciation, criticism, all feedback welcome.
Please read the FAQ, all comments here and the forum posts at WP support forum before asking a question.
Posting your question or support request at the WordPress support forum is highly encouraged as that is the place where you are more likely to get a quicker response. If you don’t get a satisfactory answer there, you can post a comment here, or contact Srini, the plugin author.
Have fun 
Can I insert a “Next Quote” (like the widget) on a page too?
I’ve updated quotes-collection and word press, and now QC can’ communicate with mysql and gives me this message: There was an error in the MySQL query
Any help would be appreciated
Seems like this is not working for my WP 3.0 web site. Will not show up on the actual page. Settings work, adding quotes work, but will not display in the side bar
Any ideas?
WP 2.9.2- There seems to be bug. I have set up 23 quotes and they’re all “public.” Yet only 2 quotes (by the same author) are showing up and the other 21 are ignored. These two just keep cycling. When I click the “next quote” link the same thing happens. Only 2 quotes show up. I’m pretty sure I have it set up correctly. The interface is very clear. I wish I could get it to work.
Thanks.
[...] Quotes Collections – This is just one of those plugins that you don’t really need but it’s fun to have. You add all of your personal favorite quotes. You can add it to your pages or use it as a widget. I’m using it on this blog as a widget over there –> [...]
Interesting, havent thought about it before
Maybe you could separate the add new quote and the list of quotes to different pages.
For faster adding of new quotes…