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Latest version: 1.1.4 (Updated on 2 July 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 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: 1.1.4

Requires atleast WordPress version 2.1. Tested upto WordPress 2.5.1.

If you are upgrading the plugin from versions prior to 1.1, it’s a good idea to back up the quotescollection database table before performing the plugin upgrade, especially if you have a large number of quotes.

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Released for free under the GPL.

Installation

1. Unzip and upload the `quotes-collection` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Go to `WP Admin » Plugins` and activate the ‘Quotes Collection’ plugin
3. To add and manage the quotes go to `WP Admin » Manage » Quotes Collection`
4. 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 1.1.4, localization is available in German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Tamil. 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

2008-07-02: 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