Quotes Collection
Latest version: 1.2.3 (Updated on 8 November 2008)
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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] tag. The plugin is similar, and uses ideas from (though not based on) the wp quotes plugin by Dustin Barnes. Visit my quotes collection to see this plugin in action.
Main 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. You can check it right here on the sidebar. This refresh feature can be optionally turned off in the widget control panel. The widget also comes with few other options in the widget control panel.
- A nice admin interface to add, edit and manage quotes.
- Additional information that can be provided along with the quote: quote author, source (e.g., a book, or a website URL), tags (keywords) and visibility.
- Quotes can be displayed in a page using one of the code (quick tags) below.
- The tag
[quote|all]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 (new with 1.1)[quote|tags=tag1,tag2,tag3]displays quotes tagged tag1 or tag2 or tag3, one or more or all of these (new with 1.1)[quote|id=3]displays quote with ID 3[quote|random]displays a random quote
- The tag
- The PHP code
<?php quotescollection_display_randomquote() ?>can be used to display a random quote in places other than sidebar. - Support for localization. (new with 1.1)
Screenshots
1. Admin interface (in WordPress 2.5)
Click on the image for a larger version
2. ‘Random Quote’ widget options
3. Random quote as can be seen in the sidebar of my website
Download
Latest version: 1.2.3
Requires atleast WordPress version 2.1. Tested upto WordPress 2.7-beta2.
Downloaded a total of 2185 times
Released for free under the GPL.
If you like the plug in, please consider making a donation to support development. Any amount will be thankfully accepted. Click on the button below to donate.
Installation
- Unzip and upload the `quotes-collection` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
- Go to `WP Admin » Plugins` and activate the ‘Quotes Collection’ plugin
- To add and manage the quotes go to `WP Admin » Manage » Quotes Collection`
- To display a random quote in the sidebar, go to `WP Admin » Presentation » Widgets`, drag ‘Random Quote’ widget into the sidebar
Localization
Versions 1.1 and greater support localization. As of 1.2.3, localization is available in the following languages.
| Code | Language | Translator |
|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | Ahmed Alharfi |
| de_DE | German | Tobias Koch |
| es_ES | Spanish | Germán L. Martínez (Gershu) |
| fr_FR | French | psykotik |
| it_IT | Italian | Gianni Diurno (aka gidibao) |
| pl_PL | Polish | Marcin Gucia |
| ru_RU | Russian | Andrew Malarchuk |
| ta_IN | Tamil | Srini |
| tr_TR | Turkish | Gürkan Gür |
| uk_UA | Ukrainian | Stas |
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
Please report any defects you may find with this plugin using the contact form or as a comment here. All feedback and suggestions welcome.
Change Log
2008-11-08: Version 1.2.3
- Added Ukrainian translation (thanks to Stas for the translation)
- Tested the plugin for the new admin interface that comes with WordPress 2.7 and a few tweaks. The plugin will work just fine in older WP versions
2008-10-06: Version 1.2.2
- Security fix, HTML tidy fix, other fixes
- Updated Turkish trasnlation
2008-09-24: Version 1.2.1
- Arabic translation added
- Minor fix (quotes-collection.js: errotext -> errortext)
2008-09-22: Version 1.2
- All javascript code moved to quotes-collection.js. This makes the code neater.
- Translations for French, Polish and Turkish languages added.
- Italian and Russian translations updated.
- A few minor fixes and small improvements.
2008-07-02: Version 1.1.4
- Bug fixes. The plugin was not handling properly apostrophes in author and source fields. This is fixed now.
- Other small fixes.
2008-06-05: Version 1.1.3.1
- Added Spanish translation.
- Updated Italian translation.
2008-06-01: Version 1.1.3
- Improvements
- Updated German translation
- Added Russian translation
2008-05-28: Version 1.1.2.1
- VARCHAR(256) -> VARCHAR(255) (VARCHAR(256) doesnt work with MySQL 4.0)
2008-05-28: Version 1.1.2
- Modifications in the automatic database update functionality
- Fixed problem with German translation
- Added Italian translation
2008-05-25: Version 1.1.1
- security fix
2008-05-25: Version 1.1
- Tagging feature
- Internationalization
- Fixes and improvements
2008-03-11: Version 1.0
- Compatible with WordPress 2.5
- Bug fixes and various other improvements
2008-02-06: Version 0.9.5
- Fixed problem with non English characters in author names while using the tag
[quote|author=]
2008-01-16: Version 0.9.4
- Support for utf-8 characters
- Fixed problem with linebreaks
2007-12-19: Version 0.9.3
- Fixed a JavaScript issue
- Removed unnecessary
<h2></h2>tags above random quote when title field is left blank in widget control options.<h2>tags displayed only when there is a title.
2007-12-18: Version 0.9.2
- Provision to add random quote anywhere in the template.
2007-12-16: Version 0.9.1
- Bug fix
2007-12-15: Version 0.9
- Initial release
#206: DavidE says:
Thanks much for useful plugin, I really like it!
I placed a random quote in my header using “”.
I’d like to remove the “next quotes” link from below the quote.
In other words, I want a random quote to come up each time the page refreshes, but without the clickable link underneath to navigate to another quote.
Which code would I need to remove from the PHP file to accomplish this?
Thank you,
David
#205: Bucho - TheBuchoBlog.com says:
Excellent! I have been looking for a replacement for the original quotes version now that it is no longer supported and doesn’t seem to work in 2.5 and above.
This seems to fit the bill nicely. Great work.
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#203: Srini says:
Venesa, that’s really weird! Is it that only the ‘Quotes Collection’ submenu link is not working, or the ‘Manage’ menu itself. If it’s just the Quotes Collection submenu, send an email to srinig.com (AT) gmail.com with a link to your website and details of the WP and plugin versions. If it is the ‘Manage’ menu itself, contact WordPress support.
#202: Srini says:
Hi Ari. The quotes plugin currently doesnt have multiple instances feature. Though I will be working on it sometime in the future. So watch out… an update of the plugin is due anyway.
#201: Venesa says:
A very weird thing…
I can only access the “Add a Quote” via the actual widget itself in design->widgets. The original way used to be via manage->quotes collection. This heading in “manage” is not showing anymore. It just disappeared. I’m using the latest version 1.1.4 in WP 2.5.1. I have deactived all plugins and also reinstalled quotes 1.1.4. I even tried restalling the old version 1.1.3 but no luck. Do you have any ideas how to get it back as I prefer to see the menu name not go through the widget setup? It is just lucky that the database has stored the quotes I typed in so far.
#200: Arindam says:
Hi Srini
You are welcome
I was also going through the “Flexi Pages Widget” (now that you are one of my favourite plugin guru!) and saw that you provided a multiple instance feature for that plugin. Great! Errrr why didn’t you do this for the “Quotes Collection” plugin? Well I did simulate ‘multiple instance’ by copy-pasting your code to create another plugin (called ‘jargon collection’, renaming tables etc) but then did I miss something? Does “Quotes Collection” also support multiple instance and I missed it? Please let me know!
Why I needed two instances? because I used one for quotes {called “Defective Design”} and another to display definitions {called “!=(Jargon)”}
Cheers!
—Ari
#199: Andre Nakamura says:
Ok, thank you so much, Srini
I hope that feature will be available shortly, ’cause I think it’s very useful
Bye
#198: Srini says:
Ari, thank you very much for the contribution
Andre,
1- if you are comfortable editing php files open the quotes-collection.php file and remove
—from line 87 to remove the ‘–’.2- It’s not possible in the current version. Such a feature may be available in a future version.
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