Quotes Collection
Quotes Collection Plugin for WordPress helps you collect, manage and display your favourite quotes in your WordPress website or blog.
Features and Notes
- Admin interface: A robust admin interface to add, edit, import, export and generally manage the collection of quotes.
- Sidebar widget: The Random Quote sidebar widget that will display a random quote from your collection and a refresh link at the bottom. As many number of instances of the widget can be added. 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 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
- Gutenberg blocks: The plugin includes two blocks that can be added in pages and posts. (New in version 2.5)
- ‘Quotes’ block to display all the quotes or a set of quotes, with presentation, filtering, paging and other options.
- ‘Random Quote’ block that functions similarly to the Random Quote widget, with additional presentation options.
- Shortcode: Quotes can be displayed in a WordPress page by placing a
[quotcoll]shortcode. Few examples are provided below. For more examples and the full list of arguments, please refer the plugin homepage.
- Placing
[quotcoll] in the page displays all quotes.
[quotcoll author="Somebody"] displays quotes authored by Somebody.[quotcoll tags="tag1,tag2,tag3"] displays quotes tagged tag1 or tag2 or tag3, one or more or all of these[quotcoll orderby="random" limit=1] displays a random quote[quotcoll ajax_refresh=true] displays a random quote that will automatically refreshed every 5 seconds
- The template function: To code the random quote functionality directly into a template file, the template function
quotescollection_quote() can be used. Please refer the plugin homepage for details.
- Import/Export your collection of quotes in JSON format.
For more information, visit the plugin homepage.
Installation
Note: The stable version of the plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin directory. The latest development version can be downloaded from GitHub, but it may not be stable.
Method 1
- Go to Plugins -> Add New in your WordPress admin area
- Type 'quotes collection' in the search box available and hit the 'Enter' key
- Locate the 'Quotes Collection' plugin authored by Srini G, and click 'Install Now'
Method 2
- Dowload the latest version of the plugin
- Go to Plugins -> Add New in your WordPress admin area
- Click on the 'Upload Plugin' button at the top, near 'Add Plugins'
- Browse and select the zip file you just downloaded, and click 'Install Now'
Method 3
- Dowload the latest version of the plugin
- Extract the zip file
- Using a FTP client or something similar, upload the
quotes-collection directory to the ~/wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation.
After installation, the plugin can be activated from Plugins -> Installed Plugins in your WordPress admin area. Once activated, the Quotes Collection menu will be visible in your admin menu.
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