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.
Downloaded a total of 2640 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` (or `WP Admin » Tools » Quotes Collection` depending on the WP version you are using).
- To display a random quote in the sidebar, go to `WP Admin » Presentation » Widgets` (or `WP Admin » Appearance » 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
Terrific plugin!! It does EXACTLY what I wanted it to do.
How does one change the font and font color of the quote. The WP theme I am using has white text in the sidebar, but yours comes out black.
Rod
@Aouni - There have been so many feature requests, and believe me, I had been working on some major updates for the release of 1.2, but some things didn’t work out the way I expect them to. So I had to settle for a scaled down version for 1.2. You can expect new features to roll out sooner or later, including Ajax in the admin panel.
@yair - Thank you very much for reporting the bug. I will fix this soon.
@Rod Carbaugh - I see that you have already fixed it, but for anybody else who wants to change the font color, on any styling, you can do that by editing the quotes-collection.css file.
Hi Srini,
Thanks for this great plugin!
I updgraded to 1.2 in two blogs.
In the first blog it’s all ok.
Instead, in the second blog, the random quote widget has a problem: when I click on the ajax link “next quote”, nothing changes!
You can see it here, in the left sidebar: http://www.biuso.eu/home-page
The strage thing is that in my personal blog (www.giofilo.it) the widget works perfectly!
Do you have any idea to fix the problem?
Thank you very much and sorry for my bad english.
Giovanni,
Italy.
Giovanni, I have sent you an email requesting further information. Please check and reply.
[...] Dank auf diesem Wege auch an Srinivasan G., ohne dessen super tolles Plugin “Quotes Collection” das ganze gar nicht möglich [...]
Srini,
Tried to dive into your php but quickly drowned. The 1.2 update solves my request to italicize author while keeping source normal.
Also I changed the erronic “errotext” pointed out by Yair.
Thanks again
@Rod Carbaugh - I see that you have already fixed it, but for anybody else who wants to change the font color, on any styling, you can do that by editing the quotes-collection.css file.
I changed the font and color in the .css file with this entry:
/* Random quote */
.quotescollection_randomquote q {
color: #FBEDC1;
font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;
}
Thanks to Rod Carbaugh for the font-color change.
It might seem an obvious change to most, but I put the author left instead of right:
.quotescollection_randomquote cite {
display:block; /* To display author and source in a new line */
text-align:left;
}
And made the source non-italics:
.quotescollection_source { /* source */
font-style:normal;
}
[...] profite de l’occasion pour remercier Srinivasan et Arnan pour leur plugin [...]
hello, im using your pluggin and like Giovanni the link “next quote” doest work!
any help ??
ps: sorry about my english