Nice Interface and Lots of Options

  • Despite not having been updated in two years, this is still my favorite quotes widget.

    • It has a nice interface
    • There are lots of options for displaying quotes
    • It permits HTML tags and images in quotes

    Users should note that there are some limitations, however. The primary one for me is that the plugin only permits one instance of the widget (read the “readme” file) in the entire site. I get around this by displaying quotes in shortcodes where I need to. The other is that the plugin hasn’t been updated in a long time, although the author has responded recently in the support forum.

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  • Thread Starter lflier

    (@lflier)

    Found a bug in the shortcode — the show_author=0 and show_source=0 attributes don’t work. The shortcode displays the author and source regardless.

    The problem is with the inconsistent use of variable names in the code — one function uses “$author” and “$source” and another function uses “$show_author” and “$show_source.”

    Here’s how to fix it…

    1. Open the quotes-collection-shortcodes.php file in a text editor.
    2. In lines 21-22 and 43-46 change every instance of “$author” to “$show_author” and every instance of “$source” to “$show_source”. There should be three instances of each.

    After that, it should work as expected.

    Thread Starter lflier

    (@lflier)

    OOPS! Please disregard the above fix — it will mess up the “author” and “source” attributes. There is no bug; just a feature that doesn’t exist in the plugin.

    It is possible to add the feature, however. See my post in the support forum for code that adds “show_author” and “show_source” attributes to the shortcode.

    Plugin Author Srini G

    (@srinig)

    Thanks for the review!

    I’ve recently updated the plugin to version 2.0 and now the plugin supports multi-widgets.

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