To continue working on my mission to create new WordPress widgets, fulfill my obsession with shortcodes, and release my fourth plugin this month, I present to you Quote This, a plugin to display quotes on your blog.
I didn’t set out to break the mold with this plugin. I’m well aware of several other plugins that display quotes, some which probably do it far better than this plugin does.
I’ve been using this on my blog for several years now, and I figured I might as well turn it into a plugin. I actually mentioned creating it in a comment just over a year ago. So, it’s been lying around, gathering dust.
You can see it in action on my Writing page.
What does the Quote This plugin do?
It is my personal collection of quotes that can be randomly displayed on your blog. There are three ways to use it:
- Call the
quote_this()function in your theme template files. - Type the
[quote-this]shortcode in your posts and pages. - Use the Quote This widget in your widget areas.
You can display quotes from several categories:
- Art
- Film
- Friendship
- Individual
- Life
- Literature
Future features of the Quote This plugin
Right now, the plugin is nothing special. It doesn’t have a ton of quotes or 100 features to choose from. It’s just a simple plugin.
I’d like to add in more formatting options. Maybe even throw in an option to grab quotes by author. Add in various ways to display quotes. I’m open to suggestions.
The main thing is to add more quotes to the Quote This collection. I’ll probably periodically update it with new quotes when I’m bored (I like to collect quotes). Of course, you all are welcome to submit quotes as well. Just send me an email if you’d like with the quotes (include quote authors). I’ll be happy to add them to the plugin.
Download the plugin
Take a look at the readme.html file for full instructions on how to use this plugin.
- Version: 0.1
- Requires: WordPress 2.5+
- Support: Support forums
- Download
- Download (WP.org plugin repository)
Please don’t use my contact page or the comments section to ask support questions. Use my support forums at Theme Hybrid, which is where I handle all support questions for my WordPress projects.
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The Dude Dean — ?
Station!
Station.
Sounds great but very personal. Why not have a section in the settings where you can add quotes to the quote db? This would let people feel more a part of it.
rgregory — I’ve thought of doing something like that, which may be a future project. But, it would require the creating of a new post type (i.e., posts, pages, attachments), a new taxonomy (i.e., categories, tags), new template tags, and new administration panels for managing everything.
Well, I guess it wouldn’t require that, but if I were to create something where users could add quotes, I wouldn’t be able to stop myself.
Is the example you show the actual size of the quote or is the size flexible? If so, probably would have been a good idea to show actual practical uses … or site blogs that use it.
Charlie — You can change the size to anything you want with CSS. I didn’t really feel more examples would have conveyed that because that’s something that’s pretty common on the Web. The plugin would be pretty useless if you couldn’t style its output how you wanted.
I am looking for a clean and ite magazine style theme for wordpress without too many function calls, any suggestions?. thanks in advance
Dennis — Theme Hybrid.
I have no clue what “Station” means, but I shall commence using it as a joyous expletive to replace such words as Sweet and Cool!
Thank you The Dude Dean.
I don’t wanna spam or anything, I just wanted to say,
You guys can always use the quotes from our new db if you like.
famousquotesdb.com
…as long as you give us a back-link to our site on the quotes, fair?
Best,
Pat
cardiogirl — I think I’ll have to stick with “sweet” and “cool”.
Pat — While scanning through your site, I didn’t happen to notice that you owned the copyright to any of them, at least the ones I read. Someone looking for backlinks is not something I’m interested in.
Copyright? these great words of wisdom belong to the world my friend.
I am not fishing for backlinks, I just wanted to share.
I then feel its pretty fair to give a link back to my site for doing it,
but that how I look at it.
//Pat