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Thursday 1 September 2005 @ 7:32 pm
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?
file not found? i’ll try again later though..
Hi, I’ve implemented an AJAX method to let visitors add their quotes. You could see it in action onto my blog on the upper right sidebar, named as “Aforisma del momento”.
Hi - it won’t lt me add quotes using the form. When I try it bumps me to the admin’s …/wp-admin/edit.php page as well. Not sure what to do.
Hi - I’m having trouble with the plugin. It won’t let me add quotes using the admin form. It also bumps me back to the Manage/Posts tab when I hit Save - and doesn’t save anything. I also use Wordpress. Can you help? I don’t see a contact on this site anywhere. Thanks.
Thanks for the plug-in! I would love to see you add a field for the source of the quote.
re: future features, as noted in the plugin’s page, I’d like to see a source field and categorization. My expectation is that Visibility should be true by default, but if you could introduce a pref for it then everyone could be happy. Might be nice to include checkboxes for mass-toggling of visibility status, too. I tend to use lots of quotes from the same source, so I could also see value in being able to mass-edit the Author field for many entries, or the (hopefully forthcoming) Source field, should one wish to change one’s attribution style.
Is there a way to change it so certain users can update the quotes database? I run a site that I would like all the users of levels 2 and above be able to update the quotes. Thanks, and great plugin.
I started using your plugin today and its great. However, after adding 4 quotes to the database via the quotes tab it stopped working. Everytime I type in a quote and hit save it sends me to the pages tab without storing the quote in the database. Has anyone seen this or know a possible solution?
I have a small optimization that makes the sql query more efficient esp when used with large quote dbs you can email me and I will happily send you the optimised query
Hi,
I like this plugin and I’m wondering if there’s any way to run two instances of it against the same database. After wp_quotes was running fine, I made copies of both files and named them ‘wp-jokes.php’ and ‘edit-jokes.php’. I did a universal search and replace on both files (replaced every “quotes” with “jokes”).
Everything worked fine and the “manage” tab showed a “joke” interface as well, which created a database called wp_jokes.
Now, when I try to stick my jokes on sidebar, in this way: “question-mark php wp_jokes_random() question-mark”, nothing is displayed
Has anyone tried anything like this?
[…] So, here is the main feature I would like to see in next version of WP-quotes : quotes categories tied to Wordpress blog cateogries. Using those categories, one more random function would allow the selection of a random quote from the post category, or the post parent’s category, depending upon which contains quotes. If the post is in more than one category, quotes would be chosen from both categories (and not the only first one). […]
Damn, there are no trackbacks here !
I posted my feature request there, but can copy it here :
So, here is the main feature I would like to see in next version of WP-quotes : quotes categories tied to Wordpress blog cateogries. Using those categories, one more random function would allow the selection of a random quote from the post category, or the post parent’s category, depending upon which contains quotes. If the post is in more than one category, quotes would be chosen from both categories (and not the only first one).
I would also like to see an import from fortune files, but it’s by far not as important.
Add a function so that a user can set a specific quote to show up from the wp-admin, and while that is active, shut off the random calls if they were enabled in the first place. As an extra feature every quoate that is manualy selected to show up this way can have a predefined expiration date, a number of days, or “no expiration” set, the default beeing “no”.
This would probably require you to add a third php-call that can be put in the template code, but that’s no problem. Was going to do it myself but I’d rather let you since the university is killing me
I think you should implement it since it probably would be used - sometimes you want to show the users the latest quote addition or some other important message in it’s place. This would be a nice way to do it without having to edit the template files every time.
And.. last: Thanx for a nice plugin.
Very nice plug-in. I’d like it to behave this way, though: take a random quote from [database] the first time, then on next refresh take a random quote from [database minus the quote already used] and so on until there’s nothing left, then repeat the process.
The way it is now, far too many quotes are repeated for it to seem really random (and I have 56 quotes in my db). I don’t know how or why mt_rand is behaving this way, but it does.
Thanks a lot for your nice little plugin. It works very well and it’s very easy to use.
Nevertheless, I have modified the latest 1.3 version in order to add a wp_quotes_daily_random() function that display a random quote of the day (it means that the same random quote will be displayed all day long). If you are interested in the modifications I have made to your code, you can get the modified files here:
http://www.neirrek.com/wp-quotes/wp-quotes-1.3-with-daily-quote.zip
(all modifications are commented and pointed by a — ADDED — or — MODIFIED — ‘tag’)
You just have to replace the 2 files in your WordPress plugins and admin directories and the plugin will automatically be updated. The replace your call to the wp_quotes_random() function in your template by a call to the wp_quotes_daily_random() function in order to see the result (the same quote is always shown, even if you refresh your page). Don’t hesitate to integrate this feature to the next version of your plugin if you find it useful
Hi! Great plugin but is there any chance of it working with Wordpress 2.0?
how do i make it look like this
” (quote)”
-Author
im trying to add the inverted commas..but dont know how to
[…] Note! I found a much better plugin here, called WP-Quotes. It uses SQL, has a nice interface and can do much more than my very rudimentary plugin. Highly recommended. […]
works fine in the side bar but I want to put the random quotes in my header.php
How could I do this please?
I use this in my sidebar. I found it works much better if you add “order by rand” in the mysql query. Otherwise, using the PHP that comes with WP-Quotes I seemed to get stuck on the same three or four quotations, even though I had 200 or so quotes.
$sql = “select * from ” . WP_QUOTES_TABLE . ” where visible=’yes’ order by rand()”;
rpd
I should qualify that “order by rand()” only works with certain versions of mysql. The version I used to develop this plugin didn’t support that — that’s the only reason it’s not in there.
How do I get the random quote to only return a snippet for the sidebar, but spew out the full text on the actual page?
And I should qualify that this is a great plugin, easily customized to include topics or categories of quotes. Works great. And thanks for the tip on order by rand() in earlier versions of mysql.
rpd
Super fast install. Great plug-in.
Got it installed, quotes entered, and quote styled in under 30-min.
I thought this a cool plugin and so I decided to modify it as someone else had done –> to add categories. I have several kinds of quotes I use on my blog and wanted to manage them better. I also wanted to learn a little mysql. Everything appears to work except that when I edit my new Category field, it is never updated but always reset to blank.
If anyone could look at my code, I would appreciate it.
Thanks, jim
Great plug-in, but it broke when I installed the handy new Widgets Sidebar Interface - I tried making a text widget with the , but that failed to return anything useful. Is there a way to get it to work with the new Widgets Interface? Could it be as simple as changing an include location?
Turn it into a widget. I’d like to be able to use the latest version of the K2 (or 3K2) theme, but until some of the php elements can be easily widgetized, I’ll have to stick with my current theme.
Excellent plugin! To be honest, this plugin is not just limited to quotes, but also other things that you wish to display. E.g. Links, images.
Extremely useful plugin. Thanks a bunch.
It would be great to get this working. I’ve got a widget-enabled sidebar. Is it possible to include it there? Can you explain how?
I have modifed your plugin to add functionality. If you would like to role in this functionality to your plugin, please contact me. Otherwise, I will just release it as a hack to your plugin.
Hello Dustin,
First of all thank you for the great plug-in.
I want to suggest a small optimization:
I use the following query for getting random quote.
SELECT quote, author FROM “. WP_QUOTES_TABLE . ” WHERE visible=’yes’ ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 2
rpd - (February 27th, 2006 at 5:46 am) suggested similar way, but in his variant all records are fetched.
I am going to use your plug-in with large amount of quotes, thus fetching all of them is not optimal.
You will notice that in my variant I made LIMIT 2, It is odd but gave me better distribution.