“Quote of the Day” script? store info in DB?

  • Hope people understand the title heh, didn’t really know how to put it. I’m looking for a plugin that will let you keep a “quote of the day” displayed on your page. Nothing that automatically changes every day, but gives you the ability to change it when you want. I’d like it to store the information in a new table in my WPDB, so you’d be able to call stuff like “quote of the day from last year” etc… after a year of use. Is that kind of clear? Anyone know what I might be after?

    I’d want to be able to change the quote from the “write” menu, then call it to display the current quote in one of the divs on my front page that currently has nothing in it. https://dark7.org/journal

    Thanks guys for any help.

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  • it’s not exactly a plugin, but you might want to try using:

    https://www.brainyquote.com/link/index.html

    Thread Starter splunk

    (@splunk)

    That’s pretty cool but not really what I’m after. From the admin menu, I’d like to be able to click on a “quote-of-the-day” tab, and have it give me the ability to enter a quote. Then it would store it in a DB, and I could call it from the main page. It would store the quote so later you could see what you quoted on a certain day etc…maybe calling it “quote of the day” is the wrong way to describe it, as it would require you to update it whenever.

    I want this too. Badly. Someone who actually has skillz-this kind of plugin would make you pretty popular in the WP world.

    you could try the witty plugin. it displays a random quote/whatever from a list that you’ve written. if you only enter one quote at a time, then you could leave it up for as long as you wanted. it’s probably not exactly what you want, but it’s in that direction.

    there’s also another plugin (i forget what it’s called, but it came out this month and it has ‘masthead’ in the title or something similar) that is supposed to hack in a few lines under your header.

    not sure where either of these stand with respect to the db.

    I’m using Matt’s plugin for random photos to be shown. I’ve modified it to show text files (simply adding TXT to the allowable extensions) and then split 50 quotes from a random email signature file into 50 separate files to be displayed. You can see the final product on my website https://www.benched42.net/blog/

    Matt’g plugin is at https://photomatt.net/scripts/randomimage

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