My First WordPress Plugin: Please Welcome shantz-wp-qotd
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Motivated by Ronald’s ultimate wordpress plugin tutorial at devlounge, I decided that the best way to learn something is to use it in a live project. Armed with my laptop and multiple flasks of coffee, the marathon began on Friday night. My only experience with web-related development so far had been around 8–10 years ago as a kid when, just like everybody else at that time, I was fascinated by HTML and did a “read-through” of HTML 4.0. But I have always been a believer of the theory that a C programmer can program in any language quickly without having to go through the whole manuals. Thus that night bore fruit for me, and by 5:30 in the morning I had a working “Quote of The Day” plugin at my hand with all the features I wanted it to have in its first avatar. Did a bit of polishing last night, fixed a few bugs, and created a readme, and here it is, Mr. shantz-wp-qotd “1.0”, in all its glory, ready for general consumption.
Features at a glance:
- Add quotes to all your posts automatically.
- Widget support – Can also have a widget in the sidebar for quotes.
- Customize and style your quotes with your own text and tags.
- Multiple sources for quotes (paste in admin page, get from file implemented, fetch from web/rss soon to come)
- Multiple patterns for quotes – Random Quote, Quote of the day (all posts display quote of the day), Quote of that day (all posts display quote for their own days)
- Pattern for widget can be different
- Customization for widget can be different
- Add quotes to top or bottom of posts
- Enable/Disable the quotes without deactivating the plugin
Coming Soon:
- Fetch from web/RSS support
- Custom template tag to add quote anywhere you want
- Custom quote boundary decalarator tags/Multiline quote support (Right now, each quote has to be on a new line)
- Quotes Categories
- Pics support for quotes
- Anything else you want
- File selection
And more…
For more details and downloads, go to shantz-wp-qotd. You can also see it in action at the bottom of this post and at the topmost widget in the right sidebar.
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This post has 7 comments
February 11th, 2008
hey shantz
would be good to have a screenshot. otherwise its a bit of a risk i feel to get it and install.
V.
February 11th, 2008
hey vibhu..
You can see the plugin working live on the site. There is a “Quote of the day” at the bottom of each post and the topmost widget on right side, generated by the plugin.
Or were you refering to the screenshots of the configuration option page as seen in the admin panel?
February 12th, 2008
yea it says – powered by shantz-wp-qotd
nice piece of work
i also downloaded – ShantzTodayChanger
February 12th, 2008
btw, a few ppl asked me whether the “powered by shantz-wp-qotd” message will also be shown in their sites.
The answer is NO! No self-promotion is attached with the plugin, the only promotion would be if you like it and want to write about it, or put in a word with your other words.
Instead of that line, you can have any text or html code you want to be shown before or after the quote text..
February 17th, 2008
Just wanted to let you know that the plugin has been updated to 1.1.0. For screenshots and details, check http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/02/17/project-shantz-wp-qotd-my-wordpress-plugin-update-to-110.html
October 7th, 2008
Is this 2.6 compatible?
October 7th, 2008
@Dan: Yes, it is compatible with WordPress 2.6