I am upgrading this site to Wordpress 2.0. It’s been a long time since it’s come out, and it’s time to get all the spiffy new features (specifically, the akismet spam-filtering service).
That means, as of the next version of wp-quotes, anything below 2.0 in the wordpress series is unsupported. wp-quotes 1.3 support will end soon too, because I’m working on wp-quotes 2.0.
Sorry if this affects anyone, but since I don’t spend a lot of time on this, I feel like cut-and-run is the best idea. Besides, wp-quotes 2.0 will be so awesome that everyone will want it. I won’t try to break 1.5.x support, but no guarantees.
A few people have pointed out an inefficiency in the wp-quotes plugin. My plugin grabs every quote in your database, sticks in a PHP array, and then chooses a random member of that array. It’s slow, but it works. Some people have pointed out that mysql supports an “order by rand()” clause that will automagically choose a random element from the result set. This is true, but the version of MySQL I have in this server doesn’t support the rand option properly. To use it, you need mysql 3.23.56 or above.
Yes, I should be on MySQL 5.0, but I don’t control this server, so I work with what I’m given. An option in the plugin will be available in the next version if you know your version of MySQL supports it. I’ll be starting a refactoring/redesign soon, and it will include proper wordpress 2.0 support, proper admin support (via the options panel instead of the manage panel), and probably a widget version. Thanks to everyone who uses the plugin!
