Hey Guys –
I know everyone’s clamoring for the latest release of wp-quotes. It’s coming soon. It’s going to be a mostly xhtml-related fix. I’m just swamped with a few things right now and can’t get the time to patch, test, package, and release, but it’ll be here by Friday!
Welp, I totally screwed up the CSS stuff in the 1.1 release, and it was found by griff. I recommend everyone use version 1.2. This doesn’t affect you if you have 1.0, that’ll still work fine. wp-quotes page.
I’ve taken a bunch of feedback, and made a new version of the plugin. I’m at almost 1,000 downloads (but I don’t have good tracking, so I don’t know for sure), which has far exceeded my expectations for this plugin. As such, I’ve got a lot of feedback. Here’s some of the new things:
- There’s a tag you can add to pages or posts that will spew all the quotes out onto one page. Check out the upper-right corner of this screen. See that little quotes link? Click on it to see what I’m talkin about. That’s all of them, right there.
- When you initialize the table by going to the management page, it will now add a few quotes so it’ll work right away
- Clearer (hopefully) installation instructions.
There are no database changes, so if you want to upgrade to 1.1 you can just overwrite the files with the latest version.
Marc at Full Throttle had an issue with the wp-quotes plugin. Something along the way in his config is setting the height of the div.top css element to 0, and by doing so, it hides the add/edit form for the quotes. This makes it so.. well.. you can’t add or edit quotes. To fix it, open up your /wp-admin/wp-admin.css and add the following lines at the bottom:
div.top
{
height: 350px;
}
This should fix your issues. Thanks, Marc, for letting me play on your setup!
Fortunately, in my current job, I know a little bit about this subject: what to measure, correct terminology, and formulas. With this project, however, I am in total control of every aspect. It’s a little intimidating. So this is a braindump as much for me as everyone else. I hope it’s on a low-enough level that everyone can understand it, even without my experience.
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