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!
Version 1.3 is available for download. Just head to the WP Quotes page.
What kind of features do you guys want in the future?
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!
I have created a new “random quotes” plugin. It stores the quotes in the database, and lets you put them anywhere you want. You can then go and style the quotes any way you want using CSS. Go to the wp-quotes page.
