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 
I have just downloaded your random quotes to WordPress. I have it as the only widget to be displayedand my themes but it does not display. Any ideas please?
Probably because you haven’t added any quote in the admin area.
Thank you very much for your reply. Yes i do have quotes in there. I did have two, now I havee 10. Everything looks to be ‘active’ from the admin side but nothing on the site still! A mystery! I am a wordpress.org user, do I need a wordpress.com account for this to work?
Jim, I see that it’s working now. Can you share with us what you did to make it work?
I’d like to let individual quotes have URLs of their own as well. For example, typing in
example.com/extras/quotes-collection/authors/srini
should take me to a page where
[quote|author=Srini] is the content.
Similarly, for the tags and IDs
example.com/extras/quotes-collection/id/3 would take me to [quote|id=3]
I’d be glad to hack around a bit if you could give me pointers on where to start!
Pranab, you are free to hack the code… you’ll find the corresponding code towards the bottom half of the quotes-collection.php (function named quotescollection_displayquote and the likes).
I’m having a problem with quotes not being accessible when I click the ‘next quote’; I just get an error message. Any ideas for a fix?
Accessing your quotes-collection-ajax.php file throws a ’500 internal server error’. I’m not sure why. If you can fix this, the ‘next quote’ will work.
Very nice plugin, Srini.
Is it possibile to get real link in the quotes?
Daniele, thanks for using the plugin. If you have a http url in the quote, it gets automatically linked. Otherwise, you can also use the HTML anchor tag. For example,
<a href="http://srinig.com">Srini</a>cool plug!
is there a way to change the font color and background color?
the background color on my site is black. on the plugin, i would like to change the font color to white and background color to black. is this at all possible?
Yes, you can change the colors and styling by editing the quotes-collection.css file that comes along with the plugin. Refer http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp if you are not familiar with CSS.
Is there a way to replace the widget title with an image?
Nope. That’s not possible.
All of a sudden I am unable to make any changes to the Quotes Collection. When I click “Quotes Collection” under tools all I get is a blank page. Have tried de/reactivating, uninstalling and reinstalling version 1.3.2, same problem. In not certain but I think this problem started after upgrading to 1.3.1. Still displays the quotes on the pages, I just can’t do any maintenance. Have upgraded to WP 2.8 but this problem was there with WP 2.7.2. Suggestions?
Mark, how long have you been experiencing this problem? Are you sure this started when you upgraded to 1.3.1? Have you tried downgrading to 1.3 and checked if the older version’s working? You can contact me at http://srinig.com/wordpress/contact/
Great add on. Thank you. I’m happy with HTML and css so I’ll modify my css file.
Will I need to make sure that I copy my css mods over when I upgrade or will it automatically handle it?
Will you ever produce a version to enable these changes from the control panel?
Thanks for using the plugin and the feedback! Yes, you will need to copy and have a back up of your css mods when you upgrade the plugin.
Interestingly enough I’ve modified the CSS file and it makes no difference to the output. I actually deleted it at one point to see what would happen and it made no diffeence.
In the CSS file it said comment this out to remove the quotes and mine is not commented out and yet there are no quotes.
The files are in the default locations
Any ideas?
I’m having the same problem as Lord T. I’ve modified the CSS file, trying to change font family, size or color, with no visible result.
Any suggestions?
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