Yes, it’s a crying shame that Quotes Collection appears to have been abandoned by its developer. It always had a problem, for years, with being able to show the “Previous” “Next” arrows. The developer didn’t seem able to solve it. I really wish somebody else would pick it up and fix it, because everything else about it is very very nice.
I too have noticed that the other quotes plugins are either abandoned or don’t measure up. I have started searching for an alternative: text slider plugins that I might be able to use as a quotes collection plugin. I’m currently experimenting with this one:
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/slide-anything/
It claims to slide anything, including text and html. It seems possible that it can be made to work, but will take a lot of “engineering” at my end to create a nice quote format. The one big restriction I do see so far is that, unlike Quotes Collection which adapts to any size of quote, short or long, the slider will be confined to a particular size of display, so you can’t put longer quotes into it, they won’t show properly. But, you know, desperate, so I’m giving it a try.
Anyway. A lot of sliders out there, so a lot of experimentation still ahead. Post one if you come up with a good one.
You can use any of the many testimonial plugins to do the same thing or similar.
But I like this “Quotes Collection” and have updated mine to the author’s Github version.
Hi. Github is Greek to me. Is there a link somewhere to explain how to make a plugin out of the slew of separate files I seem to remember them posting. If it’s more up-to-date than the official download, this is a great idea. Thank you very much for this.
In the meantime, I have been toying with the idea of using a slider plugin for all my Quotes. The arrows work fine. I’ve got this one in a site in development, and it has great possibilities to be used for quotes:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/slide-anything/
You can slide TEXT, and the height will vary and fall wherever the text ends, as it does with Quotes Collection.
If I can get the Github version of Quotes Collection together and working, and if the arrows appear, then I’ll stick with my old favorite. If not, I’m going to try the slider solution.
