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Quotes Collection

Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favourite quotes on your WordPress blog.

Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect, manage and display your favourite quotations on your WordPress blog. All quotes or a set of quotes can also be displayed on a page using a [quote] shortcode.

Features and notes:

  • Random Quote sidebar widget with Ajax refresh feature -- you will be able to get another random quote on the same space without refreshing the web page. Following is the list of options in the widget control panel:
    • Widget title
    • Option to show/hide quote author
    • Option to show/hide quote source
    • Turn on/off the ajax refresh feature
    • Choose random or sequential order for refresh
    • Option to refresh the quote automatically
    • Show only quotes with certain tags
    • Specify a character limit and filter out bigger quotes
  • The template function quotescollection_quote() can be used to display a random quote in places other than sidebar. See other notes for details.
  • Quotes can be displayed in a page by placing a shortcode such as the ones below.
    • Placing [quote|all] in the page displays all quotes.
    • [quote|author=Somebody] displays quotes authored by Somebody.
    • [quote|source=Something] displays quotes with source as 'Something'
    • [quote|tags=sometag] displays quotes tagged sometag
    • [quote|tags=tag1,tag2,tag3] displays quotes tagged tag1 or tag2 or tag3, one or more or all of these
    • [quote|id=3] displays quote with ID 3
    • [quote|random] displays a random quote
  • The plugin comes with a nice admin interface to add, edit and manage quotes.
  • Compatible with WordPress 3.0 multi-site functionality.
  • The plugin suppports localization. See other notes for the full list of available languages and the respective translators.
Author: SriniG