Shantz WP QOTD is a plugin to add quotes to your wordpress blog in a few easy clicks. It adds quotes to your posts and your sidebars with a multitude of options for sources and customization.
== Description ==
There are many quotes plugins out there. This one has been started with a view to have the best of features and options, ease of use and multiple sources to get the quotes from.
Features:
- 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
- Custom template tag to add quote anywhere you want
- Custom quote boundary decalarator tags/Multiline quote support
- Enable/Disable the quotes without deactivating the plugin
- Option to exclude pages from displaying quotes
Coming Soon:
- Fetch from web/RSS support
- Quotes Categories
- Pics support for quotes
- Anything else you want
- File selection
And more…
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shantz-wordpress-qotd/
== Installation ==
The Shantz-WP-QOTD plugin can be installed in following easy steps:
1. Unzip “shantz-wp-qotd” archive and put all files into your “plugins” folder (/wp-content/plugins/). It is advisable to create a sub directory into the plugins folder, like /wp-content/plugins/shantz-wp-qotd/
2. Activate the plugin
3. Go to Options > Shantz WP Quotes, adjust your settings and save them.
4. For adding and configuring widget to sidebar, go to Presentation > Widgets.
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= How to add quotes anywhere in the posts/pages? =
Use the tag “<!– shantz-wp-qotd {option} –>” anywhere in your post (without the quotes).
Note:
1. {option} (including the braces) has to be replaced by the quote pattern that you want: qotd, qottd or r. qotd is quote of the day, qottd is quote of that day and r is random.
2. The tag has to be added using the code editor and not the visual editor, otherwise it will replace the <, > with their HTML equivalents.
= How to use the custom separator/multi-line quotes? =
By default, if you leave the custom separator box blank, the plugin uses a newline character as the separator. However, if you have quotes that have multiple lines, you can change this to a tag of your choice, say [quote]. Now, in your quotes file (or quotes pasted in admin panel options) add this tag at the end of each quote and you are done.
= What is the format for saving quotes? =
In text box in admin page, as well as in the file, the quotes have to be saved as one on each line. Each quote is separate by newline.
= Where is the file with quotes located =
For the get from file option, a file “quotes.txt” has to be present in the same directory where shantz-wp-qotd.php is residing. A sample quotes.txt has been given with this plugin (with some quotes from southpark, simpsons, matrix and deus ex)
= I checked the option “exclude pages” but my pages are still displaying quotes =
Check your WordPress version. This option is effective only for Version 2.1 and above
= How to upgrade to a new version =
Simply overwrite the old files with the new ones.
== Screenshots ==
Config Screens and plugin in action:
You can also see the plugin in action right here on my site (check bottom of posts and the right sidebar topmost widget)
== Version History ==
- Version 1.2.2
- Fixed a bug because of which quotes were blank some times. Thanks to Thom for reporting it.
- Version 1.2.1
- Option to exclude pages from displaying quotes is also compatible with wordpress version < 2.1
- Version 1.2.0
- Added option to exclude pages from displaying quotes
- Fixed a bug that quotes source selection checkboxes always remain checked after updating settings.
- Cosmetic: Fixed a few spelling mistakes
- Version 1.1.0.1
- Cosmetic: Changed readme.txt according to wp-extend standards
- Version 1.1.0
- Added Custom tag support for adding quotes anywhere in your posts/pages
- Added Custom quote separator support and multi-line quotes support
- Version 1.0.1
- Fixed some styling related issues in text added before/after quote displayed in widget (especially links related issues)
- Version 1.0.0
- Initial version
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Hi sir! Great plug-in.. I want to add this to an ajax tab plugin.. what is the call function of this plugin? thanks alot..
hi, nice plugin but i am waiting for the release which will have RSS support.
Kindly let me know on the given email id once u release that plugin.
thanks
vaibhav, rss support will soon be added..i hope i get some time next weekend to do it…
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howdy. love the plugin! can’t wait for the categories and web/rss features. i’m a WP noob and the answer is probably obvious, but how/where do I go to style the text associated with the QOTD text differently than my posts? thank-you.
Dustin, all you need to do for that is use the “text before” and “text after” options. You can insert your html, inline css code there, or wrap it all round in a css class…
Great!!! Thanks Shantanu.
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Hello there,
I’m writing because in my blog, when I activate the shants quotd plugin, in Opera, all hell breaks loose, I mean it messes up the whole site, like this:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/256/errorod1.png
As you can see, it’s pretty much all messed up when it’s turned on, when off, it looks normal.
I’m using Windows Vista Business with Opera v9.25 installed. However, your site looks fine in Opera with the plugin, so it can be something on my side that’s wrong. Maybe it’s fighting with another plugin. I will try to figure out what it is, but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Hey Ben
The immediate cause of the problem is that the text in the box is not “wrapping” around and is continuing in a straight line, not just for qotd plugin but for all others as well. This causes all the windows to “shift” down. But this is just an effect of something else causing this. Can you tell me the settings that you are using for the quotes plugin. And what all other plugins are u using?
I’m using the default settings, meaning:
- plugin enabled
- quotes are from text area and from file (I didn’t modify quotes.txt yet)
- no separator tag
- Quote of the Day pattern
- Add quotes to post enabled, and to the bottom of the posts
- And the usual QUOTD text before the quote, using italic and bold tags
I’m using several other plugins with the Quotd plugin, but right now all of them are disabled, and just the quotd plugin is running. The plugins are:
- Advanced-Admin-Menus
- Advanced TinyMCE Editor
- AJAX Calendar
- AJAXed WordPress
- Akismet
- Global Post Password
- Highlight Author Comments
- Login LockDown
- Now Reading
- Paged Comments
- Plugin Updater
- podPress
- Samsarin PHP Widget
- Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form
- Slimbox Plugin
- WP-Bookwormr
- wp-cache
- WP-DBManager
None of these are enabled right now, just the quoted plugin, and the problem still occurs. I changed my theme to i3Theme Midnight Blue (Center Edition) v1.6, in case there’s something wrong with the theme, but the problem is still the same. I left the plugin enabled for now, you can see the result, if you have Opera. Also, in Firefox, it seems that everything is fine, but the moving of the boxes are too slow, and in IE7, you can only drag the box, not drop it, it won’t come off your cursor.
Ben, I just opened your site in Opera 9.26 on Windows XP. It worked fine for me.See the screenshot of what I got here: http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/3c8b26c9b1.jpg
What version of opera are you using? and what OS?
I’m using Windows Vista Business Version, and Opera 9.25, but the screenshot you gave is not exactly fine, you can see that the quotd box’s button is up in the right corner, god knows why. Also, if you start refreshing the site, soon it will collapse, I guess it all depends on how long the quote is, but I don’t know that for sure.
hmm, yeah, you are right about the button. Can you try one thing? In the widget’s setting (under presentation->widgets), remove all the text “before” and “after” settings, and try again.
Well, in the widget, there is no after or before text set, but I removed the settings from the plugin’s options, if it’s any help. So, it should have no formatting, just the basic text.
Also, the site collapses into one big vertical “site” when you try to move the quotd’s box around, you’ll see that it will break the layout of the site badly.
All right, I switched the plugin off until I find out what it is, I’m now 80 percent sure that it’s not the plugin’s fault. I will keep you updated in case I solve the mistery. Thanks anyway, and nice plugin, keep working on it
Ben
Well, I disabled the plugin for now, until I find out what causes this one. I wanted to know if the problem was with my site, so I installed XAMPP on my computer, and started a localhost with a fresh wordpress v2.3.3 installed, and just loaded in the theme and the plugin, and it still messes up the site. What version of WordPress and i3Theme are you using? Because it’s the only difference I can think of right now…
I am using i3theme 1.6 classic.
Don’t know what to suggest to you right now. I even tried loading my local wordpress installations with my plugin (both 2.3.3 and 2.5RC1) in opera but couldn’t see the issue. Will let you know if I find something.
BTW, can it be due to the localization? Do you do anything special for a hungarian language website?
Well, last test I did was an original WordPress v2.3.3 fresh from the net, untouched. The same with the i3theme classic theme, I thought maybe the theme does it, but I don’t know.
It can be due to the localization, although I don’t know what causes this, maybe the php.ini setup is the key, or something I can’t see. Anyway, I’ll try to reach my local wordpress forum, see if they can say something regarding this issue.
@Ben: I did some digging around and it seems that this is a known problem with opera (see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/155952 ). Don’t know why its not happening with me. I’ve a workaround in mind. I’ll try to send you a “fixed” build this weekend. Try that out.
Love the plugin… but have a few questions and a problem.
First the questions:
Is it possible to have it display anything other than “Random Quote” in the title bar?
Is it possible to have it displayed in reglular font (as opposed to bold)?
Is is possible to have the name of the source appear on a different line?
Now the problem:
It appears as though there is a slight problem n that when the widget is activated, averything on the page after the widget is bolded… almost as if there is an open tag.
Thanks a bunch.
@REL:
Answers:
1) Yes, you can change the title by going to widget properties
2) yes, you can change the font by editing the before text and after text options in widget properties
3) For the source to appear on a different line, you have to change the way your quotes are stored. In the plugin properties (options->shantz wp quotes), change the quotes separator to something like [quote] instead of “\n”, then for each quote you can put the source in a new line, and it’ll be displayed like that.
About the “bold” issue, I think either there is a problem with the theme, or you could properly check the widget settings to see if there is some open tag in before text or after text options.
Thanks for great piece of code and help with it. I will try to stay tuned, because waiting for RSS support and… hm, adding a quote by guests could be nice, but it should support WP forms (I mean it should use the same protection methods – like CAPTCHA – as entire script). And maybe possible another *instantions* of widget? In one I could put positive phrases and in second – bash-like fortunes.
Glad you liked it kozlov.
Good suggestions by the way. I’ll try to keep them in mind. especially about the guest submissions, I’ll see if I can hook up something by using another form plugin (like cforms etc)
One more question. Does this plugin add quote text onto my newly-written post (so when I try to edit it, I’ll see my quote), or does it only include text or something else? I wonder what if I disable plugin and try to view my posts.
kozlov, the plugin will not modify ur posts. It only adds the quote to it dynamically while it is being retrieved to display..
hi, can u give the exact tag for adding random quotes in page, mine’s not working…..
in white, I tried….
Thx
hi, can u give the exact tag for adding random quotes in page, mine’s not working…..
//
in white, I tried….
Thx
Varun, there are two ways to do it.
1. Either you can select the type of quotes as “random” in the settings (Settings->Shantz WP Qotd), and also select “add quotes to posts automatically”
2. If you want to add random quotes just on some selected posts or pages, you can write < !– shantz-wp-qotd r – > in the post/page. But:
a. You have to add this code in html mode and not in visual editing mode.
b. Make sure that u remove the extra space between “< " and "!" and also between "-" and ">” in the above example.
Is there any way to force quote changing? Third day I have the same text. Yes, I’ve changed quotes list in QOTD options, but didn’t think this could cause cites repeating.
kozlov,
Can you send me a screenshot of ur settings? Also, pls give me the links where you are seeing this issue.
Moreover, the quotes can repeat only if you use random mode. but then it would change on page refresh anyways (unless you are using caching)
Hi Shantz
Thx for the reply, but I’m using the same thing in the header of my template file. Still not working
Varun, this has to be put in your post/page content, not the header file. If you want to put the quotes into the header etc, you’ll have to call the function directly. e.g., you will have to use
where replace “option” by your choice of quotes pattern (qotd, qottd, r). You can take a look at the readme file to see what these options mean.
Same prob Shantanu,
I’m getting this output –>
addQuote(’r’); ?>
on my header…
// “addQuote(’r’); ? >”
—> addQuote(’r’); ?>
Varun, hmm, It might have to do something with the changed behaviour of how code in plugins is treated on a global scale in WP 2.5. Will try it out myself tonight and will let you know..
Hey Varun, I just tested it. Sorry I made a small mistake in giving out the last code to you. Forgot to “echo” it to actually display something.
Here it is
I’ve tested it on my home server and it is working perfectly.
Hi,
I just installed your plugin and I like it a lot. It was easy to install and to add quotes. I have one problem – when I added it to my sidebar, I didn’t get the uniform styling that comes with my template. Could you take a look?
http://www.lijencina.com
Ljenjivac, Thanks for the bug report.
I took a look at your page and have found the issue. Its because of a different type of markup used by your theme. I’ll try to put in a fix tonight or tomorrow. You can check back then.
Ljenjivac,I just did some digging and found that the problem is with the theme you are using and not the plugin. So, you’d either need to fix the theme (or ask the theme creator to fix it) or look for a new one. (You can try any widget, that is not built into the theme, and it will show up like that only). The problem is a missing pair of ul tags, because of which the appropriate style is not applied to the body of the widget.
When I use the “Select the quotes pattern” and i select “Quote of that day” posts for the current day contain no quote. The do contain the text I put in the “Add the following text before the quote” box.
This can be seen here:
http://www.mikomurk.com
Look at the top posting which I posted today.
I thought that you could insert HTML code in the “Add the following text before the quote” box. It took the tag but ignored the tag. Is this a problem with the plug-in or a CSS issue?
I thought that you could insert HTML code in the "Add the following text before the quote box. It took the BOLD tag but ignored the FONT tag. Is this a problem with the plug-in or a CSS issue?
Example Below:
<FONT COLOR="RED"><B>Warrior Quote To Live By:</B></FONT>
I have discovered that when i select “Quote of that day” randomly posts for SOME days contain no quote.
I have checked my quotes.txt file and it does NOT have any blank lines in it. Any idea why this is happening?
You can view this here:
http://www.mikomurk.com
Thom,
1. About the tag issue, this is about your browser. If you check the source of the page, the tags will be there, but “font” is a deprecated tag, so browsers may or may not support it. (“b” is also deprecated, use “strong” to be more compatible, however “b” seems to be supported by most browsers as of now but this could break any time)
2. I’ll look into the blank quotes issue this weekend most probably. Thanks for reporting it.
Neat plugin! I was looking for one that woud accept the author and source separately from the text of the quote. I’d be interested to see how you implement the categories. I have to hope that they’re tag-style, so that each quote can be in multiple categoresi
Thanks Cynthia
..
I’ll add the author/source request to my todo list. However, the plugin would be updated after a couple of weeks atleast..Am busy with some other projects right now. Stay tuned
Thom, I’ve fixed the “blank quote” problem. You can download the new version from the above link.
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Tried to download your plugin today but seems to be broken…..
Gary,
Thanks for letting me know. Seems to be some problem with my download manager while clicking directly. Meanwhile, you can just right click on the link and choose “save as”.
Great job Shantanu..Will try this sometime!
Thnx Pooja.. But you’ll have to migrate to a self-hosted wordpress installation to try it
Great plugin.. Thnx alot.. Still having an issue with the plugin showing blank quotes.. I’m using the hard code:
addQuote(’r’);
?>
Thanks again..
@Thom: That’s strange. I am quite sure that the blank quotes problem is fixed. Can you send me your quotes file. And the link where you are seeing the issue.
And I hope you are using the code correctly as I mentioned in comment no. 44 above cuz ur code didn’t get displayed fully here. Can you use [ code ] [ /code ] tags (without the spaces within the brackets) to post the code u r using here.
I have got the php code:
In my header.php file.. I am not using a text file..
Hmmm.. Weird.. I used the [ code ] [ /code ] without spaces but it still wont display the full php code..
Thom: Sent you an e-mail. Please send your code as reply to that.
New to WordPress, trying to move my blog over from Blogger. Had to have my QOTD (couldn’t get the javascript I used before working) and was thrilled to find your widget!
If you look at my blog (http://thelifeofbrian.info/blog/) I’m not happy with how close the end of the quote is with the sidebar item below it. How can I add more space between them? (I’d like them in separate boxes, but suspect that’s more of a theme question)
Brian: I looked at your blog. Looks like this is the way how your theme is designed to work. If you can give me a link to the theme download I’ll see if I can get some time to suggest something to make it how you want..
Thank you, that would be awesome!!
The them is called Statement: download here
oops. “them” was supposed to be “theme”
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This is a great plug in
Been using your plugin for some time and love it. I use it with a quotes.txt file, but since your plugin requires that the quotes.txt file reside in the same folder as the plugin, when I update the plugin I end up losing my quotes.txt file, it is overwriten by the update.Is there any way it can reference the quotes.txt file outside of the plugin directory?Thanks!Marina
Marina, yes it is possible. All you have to do is open up shantz-wp-qotd.php file and add the relevant path to the $include_path variable. e.g. you can keep the quotes.txt file in your wp-content/plugins folder (i.e. one level above the shantz-wp-qotd folder), and modify the line no. 30 to read
$include_path = “..”; (notice that I’ve change the path here to “..” (parent directory) instead of “.” (current directory)).
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Hi Shantanu!
Great Plugin!
1. How can I create a CSS class within the style.css, that adresses the Widget styling?
2. I would like to use more than one qoute files simultaniously. Could this be a feature in the future?
Thanks, Michael
@Michael:
1. Create the class as what you want and then use the prefix/suffix option in the quotes settings panel to add the corresponding style attributes.
2. Not sure about putting this as a feature, but you can use a file and put the contents of the 2nd file in the text area in quotes settings panel. It’ll combine and use both the sources.
Thank you!
But I need separate sources for quotes, that I can use on different places on my site..
Any idea??
oh u meant it that way. It’s not possible with the plugin in its current form and I don’t have the time right now to properly fit that in, although a dirty hack wud make it possible as well and take much less time. Let me see if I get around to do it, will let u know..
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Hi Shantz. good job!! great plugin. I’ll use it.
just want to report a little issue (not really a bug).
while testing the plugin with otpions:
-Quotes Text Area
-Quotes Separator Tag: [quote]
- ***** A single test quote ***** (just 1!)
and retriving data in hard mode:
addQuote(’r’);
?>
if i dont put the [quote] Separator Tag at the end of the (first and only) quote NO quote is showed in the frontend page.
when i put it all is showed correctly.
thankyou
ciao
….
and retriving data in hard mode:
as for your comment n.44
(form purge php code)
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The plug-in works for me and everything, it’s awesome and thank you =), although I don’t want to add it as a ‘widget’ on my site because I have other things on my sidebars that if I activate a widget, the ones I have on the left/right sidebars go away and the qotd takes over. Instead, I would like it similar as a widget by just adding codes..
Is that possible? Kind of like the wp-poll plugin.. there is a general usage code they give to people who download the plugin so they dont have to use the widget function and just manually add it?
Thank you in advance =]
@Nurse: Yes, it is possible in 2 ways.
1. Use the comment short codes (e.g. ) in your post/widget etc. More details are in FAQ above.
2. Use function call through php. I gave the code to do this in a comment above (on April 7th 2008)
Thanks for the quick reply Shantz.
Take a look at my site, on the left side bar! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
-Nurse Jen Doll
http://www.nursejendoll.com
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Hi Shantanu – love the plugin, thank you!
Is there any way to get these to show only on the post pages and *not* on the front page?
You can see the way I have mine set up at the url above – i’m using the quotes.txt
Thank you!
Dee
@Dee: Yes, it can be done but you’d have to edit the code. Just open up the shantz-wp-qotd.php file and in the function process_quote, except the last statement (return $content), put everything else under an if condition ( if (!is_home()) )
Thanx
However, I’m SO not a tech person, can you do the modification? I’d be more than willing to pay you for it. Please let me know.
Dee
@Dee: Check your email
Nothing yet, but I’m keeping an eye out
Dee
like WordPress QOTD very much.
How can I place it anywhere in my blog other than at the top or bottom?
Specifics are very helpful.
Thanks in advance for your courtesy.
P.S.
Is there a limit to the number of quotes used in your provided box? My last entries there don’t seem to be shown.
@WS: You can use either the tag/comment option (see the first question in the FAQ in the post above), or you can use php code, see the comment I made on April 7th, 2008 above.
And there is no limit on the number of quotes. Can you put all your quotes in a text file and send them to me by uploading somewhere? I’ll check it out.
I’m trying to implement a QOTD for a blog I am building for a client and your plug-in is closest to what I am trying to provide for them. They want a “This Day in History”-esque feature, with each quote displaying on a specific day. Is there a way for us to determine which quote will be displayed each day?
Yes, that option is already available. Use the quote of “that” day option.
Alright I’ve changed the setting from ‘Quote of THE Day’ to ‘THAT Day’, but I don’t see where to specify the day. Also, I’m only using the widget, and not displaying the quote on the posts or pages. After playing with the text file, I’m guessing all I can do is start the quotes from today, and not have them start on January 1st.
@Geoff: The day is automatically taken by the widget to be the date on which the current post was made. If it is a page with multiple posts (e.g. home page, categories, archives, etc) then it takes the date of the first post on the page. However there is a limitation. This day is actually the “day of the year”, so if you have 365 quotes in ur file, first quote will be shown on jan 1 and last post will be shown on dec 31, and then it will cycle through again next year. If you want to get this feature modified/customized according to your need, send me an email through the “contact” link from the top menu of this page.
This plugin is cool
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Hi, the plugin is great, I love it!
Damn typographic quotes, check for example your comment #657
I noticed that in the readme.txt the quotes are also wrong, it uses “`” not these “‘” ones.
BTW, the plugin doesn’t work if you use quotes.txt only and leave empty the quotes in the settings.
see you (:
g
Oh, I’m using WP 2.7, and also another problem: I noticed that sometimes the settings in the widget don’t get saved.
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Thanks a lot for sharing this plugin.i love it’s functionality.
have a good day
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Hello,
is there any way to show a random quote in any posts?
I just wanna have difrent qoute on all posts,
and now i have the same quotes on all posts.
Please replay.
@John: Yes, it’s possible. Just go to the plugin’s settings page. Look for “Select the quotes pattern” and choose “random” or “quote of that day” option and save settings.
yeah when i do that they are random but they are the same in every post, you understand? and i just wanna have diferent quote in any post.
hmm, that shouldn’t happen..btw did u try the quote of “that” day option.. that will surely give u a different quote.
my site under each post you see the qoute every one are the same this si random. When i set up quote of “that” day i get in first post 1 quote and IN THE OTHER post 2 quote still the same ;-|
John, I’ve removed the link as it didn’t seem appropriate to me..Will investigate when i get time and let u know.
i know this is adult site it should not be here, but i had to show you the problem, when you will know somthing about it just replay here to my message,
John.
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Nice plugin, very helpful and easy to use, thanks for share!
Great plugin, good job!
Hi, is it possible to use this plugin with WP 2.7.x ?
yes, it should work..My brother uses it on his blog with WP2.7.x
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Thank you for a great plug-in.
I so appreciate it.
Now let me see if I can get it to work …:-)
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I love this plugin and have used on other wp sites as a widget in the sidebar. I am trying to use it on the home page (static home page). I went into the html editor and put in the following:
Nothing appears. On that page there is a video, so I put it on a new page that only has some unformatted tex, it does not appear there either. Do I have the syntax correct?
I am running wp 2.9
I just realized it didn’t print my syntax as I didn’t put it in quotes. The syntax I am using is:
“”
without the double quotes on either end
for some reason it is not putting the syntax in – even wrapped in quotes. If you could email me, I will email you back the exact syntax of the entire page in html
@Roaseann: sent you an email..
I did not receive your email and I looked in my spam folder.
One of the things I see is that when I put the following in the source on a page (I will spell it out as the code doesn’t appear when I type it in here):
less than exclamation dash shantz-wp-qotd r dash greater than
after I save it, then look at the code it goes to
less than exclamation dash dash dash shantz-wp-qotd r dash dash dash greater than
I don’t know why this is happening, but the quote does not show up.
@Roseann, I got a bit busy so couldn’t reply earlier..I’m not sure what’s going wrong there, btw it should be two dashes at the beginning and end instead of a single dash that you are putting in.
Hello, I’ve noticed when using the quote of the day setting that the quote changes sometime in the afternoon, rather than at midnight. Is there a setting somewhere that will allow me to sync with my time zone?
Hi! Thank you very much, good plugin. But unfortunately not supports utf8 (i use turkish lang). And same sidebar and plugin settings tab have some same settings (like random/daily..) And how adjust text margin a little to left?
@kadir: I’ll check out utf8 support. For text margin, you can use the decoration text boxes to put in css styles..
i converted quotes.txt to UTF8 format with Notepad++ adn it’s ok. thank you very much.
Love the plugin. I’m using it as a sidebar widget in a Theme created by Artisteer. Where can I change the style of the quote and the tag line I added (the attribution) so they are not in italic? None of the other text blocks in the sidebare appear in italic. TIA.
@Karen: You should be able to add the required html/css tags in the text before and after options in the qotd plugin settings.
Thank you for a great plugin. I’m very appreciate it. Cheers!
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I’m using shantz-wp-qotd as a widget on the sidebar of a WP 3.0 site currently under development (I don’t want to post the access password publicly, but would tell it to Shantanu Goel privately). This problem occurred with WP 2.92:
I have each quote on a new line and I made sure to use plain text for the quotes. There are weird characters appearing in the quote text. For example, after a period at the end of a sentence, there is a space and the next sentence begins. But before that space, I see what looks like a question mark in a light font on the background of a dark diamond shape. The quote is: “All the scriptures tell us one thing; Know thyself. If you have known yourself, you have known everything else.” The character appears before the space after “thyself.”
I have deleted the space and it still persists. What could be causing the weird character and how can I get rid of it? TIA.
KK: It seems that the script is getting some weird character in input. I’ll have to check it out on your site. If possible, send me the user/password through the contact page above. I can’t promise a time as I’m very busy these days but will try to check it out this sunday.
i have to say you have done a good job!
but can yuo tell me how to use it in header.php,
i mean in other arear, not just in the sidebar(or say widgets)
@Viewway: This is covered in the first question of the FAQ:
= How to add quotes anywhere in the posts/pages? =
Use the tag “< !– shantz-wp-qotd {option} –>” anywhere in your post (without the quotes).
Note:
1. {option} (including the braces) has to be replaced by the quote pattern that you want: qotd, qottd or r. qotd is quote of the day, qottd is quote of that day and r is random.
2. The tag has to be added using the code editor and not the visual editor, otherwise it will replace the < , > with their HTML equivalents.
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Hi there,
I’m running WordPress 3.0 and I can’t seem to get this plugin to work on an individual post.
If I click the “display in all posts” option, it works, but if I use this code:
in the HTML editor of a post, it doesn’t display.
Can anyone confirm whether this plugin works in WordPress 3.0?
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I have searched for hours trying to find a customizable quote of the day plugin. Your “Shantz WordPress QOTD” plugin is the only one that seems to have the features I want…customizable quotes, changing once a day.
I can get a quote from the quotes.txt file to display, but I can’t find any way to utilize the “qotd: quote of the day” or “qottd: quote of that day” features.
I am using the “” format inserted into a page. I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know how to assign quotes to display on a given day or at least change once a day.
Thank You!
I’m not sure if you’re continuing development on this plugin, but I was wondering how it would be possible not to use the plugin as a widget but to incorporate it into the template of my theme. The theme I currently has only supports one widget menu (on the right) and I would like the quote to appear on the left beneath my menu. How might I go about doing this?
How can I make it so that a “Author”or”Editor” can change the quote of the day?
Thanks to your explanation on December 2, 2008 at 1:27 pm, I was able to get today’s specific quote to display the first time. This is the only plugin I have found that can display a specific quote on a specific day. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get January 1, 2012′s new quote to display accurately, without changing the whole file manually at midnight on December 31, 2011? Also, could you suggest changes to get two or more different files of quotes to display independently, for example in different widgets?
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Is it possible to list all the quotes somehow? I was able to do that with another plugin, and liked that feature.
Thank you!
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For the wishlist: Can QOTD have the addition of .mp3 files so one could hear the quote being spoken? What I’m really looking for is a way to offer a foreign word of the day, so we could display a word, its definition, it’s pronunciation key and an audio file to listen to it being spoken. Any idea if that’s do-able now in WordPress? TIA.