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Screenshot 1 – Example of how flexi quote rotator can be displayed on a web page
Screenshot 2 – Settings panel in admin
Screenshot 3 – Management panel in admin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/
A plugin for displaying quotes or testimonials or other rotating snippets of content.
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Contributors: acurran
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Tags: quotes, quotation, quote, quotations, testimony, testimonies, random quotes, random, rotating, quotation, plugin, shortcode, template, display
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.1
Stable tag: 0.3.2
Based on Luke Howell's quote rotator plugin, the flexi quote rotator plugin allows you to add the quotations to your site using a shortcode or php snippet in template instead of only as a widget. Also adds a settings panel to the admin and provides additional flexibility with styling.
You can use this plugin to display quotes or testimonials or other rotating snippets of content on your web site. The quotes are entered in the admin area and can be displayed using a widget, a shortcode or php snippet. The quotes will rotate with a fade transition on each changeover.
- Use the widget created (Design > Widgets)
- Add this shortcode to your page or post content:
[quoteRotator title="{optional title}" delay="{delay in seconds, optional}" fade="{fade-in duration in seconds, optional}" fadeout="{fade-out duration in seconds, optional}"]
e.g.1:[quoteRotator]
e.g.2:[quoteRotator title="Testimonials" delay="8" fade="4" fadeout="2"]- Insert a template tag in a template file:
quoteRotator({optional title}, {delay in seconds, optional}, {fade-in duration in seconds, optional}, {fade-out duration in seconds, optional});
e.g.1:<?php echo quoteRotator(); ?>
e.g.2:<?php echo quoteRotator("Testimonials", 8, 4, 2); ?>
Styling:
This plugin allows full styling flexibility using CSS to control how the quotes are displayed on your web site. A few example stylesheets are included in the styles folder (/wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/styles/). One of these can be selected in the settings admin panel. You can copy and modify one of these stylesheets to achieve the desired look. Then you save it in the styles folder and it will become an available for selection in the settings admin panel. Photoshop source files are also provided if you want to modify the provided background images.
Under the "Manage" tab of the admin page, there is a "Quotes" subpage.
No, this plugin is not designed to handle more than one quote areas on an individual page.
It depends on the method used to display the quotes - if the original widget method if display is used, then the widget settings are used. If the shortcode or PHP methods of display are used, the settings saved in Settings > Quote Rotator are used but these can be overidden by the optional attributes passed to shortcode or PHP.
Yes, you can put HTML code into the quote and also into the quote author field (which is useful if you want to link to the quote author's web site)
Version 0.3.2 (28 Mar 2011)
Resolved issue with height jumping around in widget version of quote rotator
Version 0.3.1 (25 Mar 2011)
Added back in the style sheets that were missing from previous version due to SVN glitch
Version 0.3 (24 Mar 2011)
- Modified jQuery animation to fix issue with jagged text in IE.
- Added new options Height Override and Width Override.
- Added template tag quoteRotator().
- Added new widget options.
Version 0.2 (5 Apr 2010)
Changed script library used for fading effects from Scriptaculous to jQuery. This should resolve script library conflicts that some users have experienced. Added fix for saving options in WP 2.9 MU. Thanks to colin@brainbits.ca for supplying the code! Also added a new option for fade-out duration. This defaults to 0 so that it behaves like previous versions with no fade-out unless specified.
Version 0.1.3 (17 Mar 2009)
Minor update: replaced a PHP shorthand tag, which was causing problem for some users, with full PHP tag, updated readme
Version 0.1.2 (12 Jan 2009)
Minor update: updated instructions and screenshots for WordPress 2.7
Version 0.1.1 (4 Nov 2008)
Minor update: set default parameters for getQuoteCode() function
Version 0.1 (28 Oct 2008)
Initial beta release based on Version 3.5.4 of Quote Rotator by Luke Howell.
October 29th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Can you have HTML in the quote?
October 29th, 2008 at 7:42 am
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October 29th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Yes you can have HTML in the quote.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Looks great, can you add the code into another plugin like ‘AddSig’ so that it becomes a random quote appearing after each post.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
@Andrew:
You potentially could add the php code for displaying it to another plugin’s output. However, bear in mind it is only designed to appear once on any web page.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:08 am
This is a great plug-in and is a very effective tool for us to deliver high impact messages!
November 1st, 2008 at 8:15 am
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November 4th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Aiden, does it use the same table names etc as Luke’s quote rotator? I’m wondering if the two can healthfully co-exist. Didn’t want to try it without your thoughts. The benefit is that I could use one as a side-bar widget and the other as a random quote at the bottom of posts.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
@Andrew: Yes, it uses same table names as Luke’s quote rotator, so the 2 are not meant to be used together. Currently the Javascript code is set up for one inclusion only, but a bit of tweaking the Javascript could allow 2 or more inclusions. If that were done you could have have sidebar widget and shortcode version on same page.
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November 15th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Nice work!
How to customize the CSS for this plugin?
Thanks.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
@Embun: You can copy one of the included style sheets, modify it, save it in styles folder and select it from the settings page. See note on Styling above.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:01 am
It’s done!
Next:
Can you AJAXing quotes in your next release?
Right now, everytime I add some quotes, I have to reload the browser to show them in the rotator
Cheers.
December 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hey,
Thanks for this great plugin. However, it doesn’t seem to work with WP 2.7.
It says that there’s an unexpected $end in flexi-quote-rotator\classes\quote-rotator-management.class.php on line 299
It would be great if you could find the time to fix that.
December 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hi again,
Can you add an optional column as support of the Author?!
I mean, sometimes I want to cite a quote from a book titled ‘The Unoffical Book’ written by Mr Unknown.
I want (in Manage-Quotes) there is an additional textbox to handle the book title. e.g caption is ‘Book’
So, in the Author’s textbox I write ‘Mr unknown’ and then in the Book’s textbox I write ‘The Unofficial Book’ title.
When Book’s textbox filled, It will say somthing like “Mr. Unknown, The Unofficial book” at the end of quote on page. Otherwise, just “Mr. Unknown” as the author of Quote.
Regards.
ps; don’t forget with AJAXing.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:51 am
@Bobby: Thanks for letting me know about the issues in 2.7, I haven’t had a chance to test in 2.7 yet but will try to get around to it soon.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:54 am
@Aidan : thanks for the quick answer. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no hurry.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I have tested this plugin in WP 2.7 and it is working fine.
January 14th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Great plug-in!
One question though. Any way to shut off the “Loading quotes…” message?
Thanks again!
January 16th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Thanks for testing it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me. I deleted it and downloaded the latest version from your website and I still have the same error message.
I deactivated all the plugins I use but it didn’t help.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this plugin, but I guess I have to look for another one.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hi Aidan – Very nice plugin… thanks!
Regrettably I am having trouble with it using WP 2.7 – The admin functionality doesn’t seem to work properly anymore…
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Not sure what the problem is that some people appear to be experiencing in WP 2.7. Is it showing up in the menu for you? (‘Quote Rotator’ under Settings and ‘Quotes’ under Tools – see the new WP 2.7 screenshots above)
February 4th, 2009 at 5:14 am
I cannot activate it.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\Program Files\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\flexi-quote-rotator\classes\quote-rotator-management.class.php on line 299
February 10th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Great plugin but it won’t allow me to edit. I can delete but when I click on Edit, nothing happens.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@Sissi
I haven’t seen this issue myself but I see that Luke Howel did an update on the original plugin code that this is based on:
Version 3.5.6
Fixed error with dead link when trying to edit or delete quotes.
So, I plan on doing an update soon to merge in those updates to this plugin
February 12th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Same problem here, unexpected $end lin e299 in WP 2.7.1
February 18th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Hey,
This is one of the best plugins out there for quotes :-)
The only problem I found is that its using a different js framework to mine (I’m using mootools 1.21).
So obviously when I activate this all my mootools powered features stop working :(
Any guide on how I can make this work with Mootools?
Thanks :-)
February 18th, 2009 at 8:13 am
The error is being caused by the php shorthand on line 241 in ‘quote-rotator-management.class.php’ Make this a full php tag and the Fatal error will go away and the plugin will activate.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
For some reason, the box and quotes show up but no text. What am I doing wrong? I placed
getQuoteCode( ); ?>
in the index.php page.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
the code did not show up correctly in the last post….it is #3. Insert a PHP snippet in template:
e.g.1: getQuoteCode(); ?>
Thanks in advance for your help!
March 1st, 2009 at 2:15 am
Tried using this in my sidebar (not as a widget), but getting the following error:
“Fatal error: Call to a member function getQuoteCode() on a non-object in /home/…sidebar.php”
The code I inserted was getQuoteCode(“Testimonials”, 8, 4); ?>
It doesn’t look like the function exists, any thoughts?
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
I can’t get it to work either — no errors, just that the quotes do not appear on the page at all.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
same problem here, text box but no text, any fixes out there?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Looks like an awesome plug-in, but I’m having the same problem mentioned above. The quotes aren’t appearing on the page.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:04 am
For those of you who can’t get the quotes to appear on page, what approach are you using to display the quote (widget, shortcode or PHP)?
Try one of the alternative approaches and see if that works. I’ve come across cases where shortcodes don’t work due to some installed plugin. List all your plugins and WP version and we may see some common thread. If someone wants to send me an admin login to their site (via this site’s contact form), I can take a look.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:42 am
@Rob, Thanks for pointing out the problem that the shorthand PHP tag may have been causing some users (…syntax error, unexpected $end…). I’ve just uploaded a new update (version 0.1.3) to resolve this.
March 18th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
The upgrade to 0.1.13 is missing all the other key files. The upgrade only contains the flexi-quote-rotator.php file. I resolved by downloading .12 here, and .13 from the wordpress plugins site. I copied the new flexi-quote-rotator.php file over the .12 version and it activated as expected.
March 18th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@Melinda,
Thanks for pointing this out. You were right the internal folders were missing due to some confusion I must be having using SVN (the tool for uploading plugin releases to wordpress.org). Anyway I’ve fixed it, v. 0.1.3 should have the complete file/folder structure now.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Having the same problem, the quotes don’t show up. I’m using WP 2.7, Akismet, All In One SEO, Contact Form 7, Exclude Pages From Navigation, and WP shopping cart. Oh, and Flexi Quote Rotator, if I can make it work. :) Looking forward to a solution soon!
March 19th, 2009 at 9:19 am
@April, As a test, try deactivating WP Shopping cart and let me know if it works. I’ve experienced WP Shopping cart to break short codes under certain settings. Also try the PHP code in template approach for displaying the quotes (this would get around the broken shortcodes problem)
March 19th, 2009 at 10:46 am
@Aidan–thanks for the quick response! Deactivating the WP-Shopping cart does fix the problem :( I was really hoping to use both…any suggestions?
March 19th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Awesome, plugin, exactly what I was looking for!
I am only having trouble when I try and insert the quote via PHP in my theme, with or without the optional parameters:
getQuoteCode(); ?>
I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getQuoteCode() on a non-object
The shortcode and widget versions work fine, but I want to place the quote in my theme in the header. I tried deactivating what few other plugins I have but it made no difference. Is there something else I need to initialize to create the getRotator object?
March 19th, 2009 at 11:46 am
@April, WP-Shopping cart breaks the WP shortcodes feature. This is a problem with that plugin, I recommend you post on their forum to let them know. It depends on what settings are used but I can’t remember which ones, maybe if fancy notifications are turned on, but not sure…
As a workaround you can use the PHP code in template approach instead of shortcodes.
March 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@Jared, Do you have latest version (0.1.3) of the plugin? (Download link above gives latest version) I did a fix which clears fatal error problem that some people experienced.
If that’s not it, try this one thing and let me know if it works – add the line:
global $quoteRotator;before
echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode();in your template.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Ok, I posted on their forum, but they are notoriously silent and inaccessible, generally. In the meantime, is there a way to use your plugin in the sidebar without using the built in widget/shortcodes? (Sorry, I’m a newbie…)
March 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I just sent you admin info via your contact form. If you wouldn’t mind taking a look and letting me know if there’s any way to make this work? Thanks so much.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:59 am
@April, Yes you can make it work by using PHP approach instead of shortcodes. To do this you need to edit the appropriate template file and insert the PHP code given in the instructions above in the location where you want the quote to appear. If you have no clue about editing template files but are interested to learn start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates
March 20th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Thanks so much, I’ll give it a shot.
March 21st, 2009 at 10:13 am
I’m having the same trouble @Sissi mentioned Feb. 10th – When I hit edit, the page merely refreshes but doesn’t allow me to edit the quote. I can, however, delete and re-enter an edited version. Any help would be appreciated!
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 am
@Jenny, can you provide details of your setup? (or if you send me login I can take a look)
March 26th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Hi Aidan – I love the way this looks but I’m not on WP…is it possible to use this on a regular site? I am on SquareSpace.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Same like Sissi and Jenny, I can’t edit the quotes. Fresh install on WP 2.7.1, flexi 0.1.3, xampp 1.7.0, with no other plugin installed.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
@Adit,Sissi,Jenny – if you contact me with an admin login for your site, I’ll take a look.
I’ve tested v. 0.1.3 in WP 2.7.1 and edit is working fine for me.
March 29th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Aidan, great plugin. I am using it as a tool to load news headlines. Is there a way to change the ‘loading quotes’ to ‘loading headlines’? I am running 2.7.1 and the sidebar widget option. Thanks.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:02 am
Aidan, great plugin! It’s a brilliant quote management tool.
I’m looking to extend this tool beyond wordpress and feed quotes elsewhere. (One tool to rule them all persay.) How hard would it be to output the the quotes into an rss feed?
April 1st, 2009 at 3:35 am
It’s a great plug in thks for creating it But It can’t display on IE
only compatible with firefox so I can’t use this plugin
From Thailand
April 1st, 2009 at 8:49 am
@Doi, it should be working fine in IE.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Hi Aidan,
I had a user of my “Use Google Libraries” plugin ask what would be needed to have “Flexi quote rotator” be compatible with it. I took a look at it, and it was a fairly simple change. I filed a track ticket and attached a patch if you’re interested.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:56 pm
@Jason, Thanks!
April 1st, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Hello Aidan; Am I to assume that by not answering my question of March 29 (#56) about changes to the plugin announcement that you do not wish users to do so? If this is your position, I am disappointed. Thanks anyway. The plugin is still very useful. Thanks again.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:31 pm
@John, No, I’d like to make it more configurable but simply don’t have time to spend on it at the moment. You can achieve what you’re after quite simply as follows:
edit the file classes\quote-rotator.class.php and change the text on lines 169 and 189 to say ‘Loading Headlines…’ instead of ‘Loading Quotes…’
April 1st, 2009 at 9:36 pm
@wonderfullyrich, probably not hard but not something I would put time into at the moment as I don’t have a need for it and I’m really busy. But thanks for the comment.
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 am
Good Morning Aidan; And a very good morning it is. Thank you so much for the reply and instructions. I will do as you say. Have a good day.
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:48 am
Aidan, I have followed your instructions and the results are perfect. Sometimes it’s just the small things that make a day. You and your work are very much appreciated. Thanks.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
Hello Aidan
When i activate and use this plug in .Internet explore will error and can’t open my homepage but when i deactivate it. it normally use with IE. work very well on firefox
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 am
Oh..I test ur homepage on IE.I can see ur Demo quote. sorry I don’t know why it can’t use on my homepage
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Hello Aidan. I want to thank you again for helping me adjust your plugin. It truly is a great little tool. I also wanted to let you know that I have passed along the plugin to a few of my colleagues (with news sites) and they are as excited about it as I am.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Hi.
nice tool. Can I offer some suggestions for future features?
a) make the quote order changable as clicking and draging widgets is, e.g. Ajax. It would be very helpful to make it easier to change the order.
Another option would be to offer a “quick edit” and numbering system as WordPress does.
b) allow “children of quotes”.
That is to say, just as WordPress does, to allow subsequent quotes to the the child of an intitial quote.
Again this would make it much easier to move quote orders about.
I do not know code and cannot work out page positioning yet. Does the FQR support page positing in css and how is that done, e.g. absolute position or layers?
Thank you.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:30 am
@nonegiven: Thanks for your suggestions. The output of the plugin is contained within a DIV with id “quotearea”, so you can apply any positioning css to that container as desired.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:13 am
Hello Aidan. A follow up to nonegiven’s question about changes to quote order: My knowledge in the area of editing css is limited, to say the least. Your guide to nonegiven: “The output of the plugin is contained within a DIV with id “quotearea”, so you can apply any positioning css to that container as desired” leaves me to ask if you can direct me to the file I must alter to achieve the reverse order? Thank you in advance for any assist.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:10 am
@John: CSS files located in this directory: /wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/styles/ (I have noted this in the ‘Styling:’ in the instructions on this page. You can copy and modify any of the existing stylesheets and your custom stylesheet will show up as an option in the settings. You will need to upload it with FTP as this plugin does not provide an interface for editing the css.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Good morning: I may be pushing the limits of your willingness to assist – but – I must ask… I am trying to make the quotes appear in reverse order, is that done in the ‘styles’ file? Again, thanks for any help.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:57 am
When I have time I might add a sorting feature but at the moment there isn’t one. I always use random anyway so don’t have a need for it personally. The only workaround I can suggest it to delete your quotes and re-enter them in the order you want them in.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Aidan, thanks for the reply and suggestion. Looking forward to a sorting feature.
April 19th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Thanks.
This is just off the cuff, but perhaps it would be possible to extract quotes from WordPress posts and pages, e.g. using a bespoke tag, like [fqr] … [/fqr] in any article would pull that text to quote it in the quoted area.
You might consider adding a radio button, or publish option, to switch on and off quotes as per usual behaviour.
Would it be possible to edit the css from within a modified flexi-quote-rotator.php page?
April 29th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I add this to one of the sites I support – http://www.haroldshank.com. It cause the page to hang up loading. It seems to continually run. When I deactivate it the site is back to normal. WP 2.7.1.
any suggestions as to what to try?
April 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Seems like a conflict between scriptaculous and jquery libraries. Try turning off whatever plugin is using jquery.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Hi, firstly, great plugin, especially due to the addition of the styling of the css elements.
Like some others here, I am having issues with this working on ie!
I have checked for script clashes, but it fails even when on its own….. but I see yours works.
This is very odd, and any help will be greatly appreciated.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:38 am
@Chrisgooding: A link would be useful
May 7th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
hi,thank you for this plugin
i have a little problem that it dose not work in enternet explorer it works i firefox
on the enternet explorer it appear loading…
just that no qoute appears
if you please to tell me who to make it work,
May 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am
@khaldoon: It works fine in IE. You should notice that the example on this page is working in IE. You may have a conflict with other plugins or scripts. Can you provide a link to where it is not working?
May 12th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Can u see on my website? cronicasdesalud.com
I can change the color even when I went to the CSS and changed it and aligning too
May 12th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
@Josh Arcadia: It is not working on your web page, the shortcode is showing up directly, it’s not getting processed. They may be something wrong with the way you are entering it, why is it wrapped in <code> tags?
May 13th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
did anyone figure out about the javascript. I have dynamic feature content and the normal one ..they both use javascript and mootools …but if have this enable it breaks them. Is there a fix ?
May 27th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Hi. I have installed this Ok and added some quotes . The css looks OK but the quotes are not loading. Any ideas?
Am using WP2.7 and very few plugins
url: http://www.personal-injury-accident-compensation.co.uk/2009/05/27/testimonial/
Am using this on another site with no probs. Great plugin!
May 27th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
@Chris: It’s a Javascript library conflict – you have some other plugin inserting jquery library and it conflicts with scriptaculous. Try deactivating other plugin.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:06 am
Hi Aidan, thank you for such a great plugin, I had the fatal error mentioned in comment #44 and your fix suggestion in #46 fixed the fatal error but now it’s just saying “loading quotes”
This is a test installation for a client while I build it up, and the only plugin active is the Flexi Quote on WP 2.7.1 and Flexi Quote 0.1.3
Any ideas? … I can give you admin access if needed … Thanks … Scott
May 31st, 2009 at 11:07 am
I forgot to include the link to the test site … http://pete.100foldpro.com
June 1st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
@Scott Prock: The script is not getting inserted in your header – check your template file setup – do you have wp_head()?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
very odd .. I didn’t have the wp_head and now I don’t get anything, I’ll look back at the answers to that problem to see if I can fix it
June 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Nope, can’t find a fix, I wonder if something in my template is using jquery? Other than that I’m lost as it’s the only plugin right now active.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:23 pm
yes, that’s the problem now – /wp-content/themes/memex/js/jquery-1.2.6.pack.js
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 am
Hi – when I go to the Quotes page in Manage and try to add a quote it won´t save anything. The page just reloads with a blank form. If I install the widget it states no quotes found. Is their an easy solution? I upgraded to the new version and am using wordpress hosted by Yahoo. Thanks!
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:51 am
@ggirl – you appear to be having same problem as reported earlier (26,51,54). What version of the plugin do you have? If you provide me with login by contact form I can take a look.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Hey there, I love your plugin, thank you:) I seem to be having a problem with controlling the speed. I go into the widgets and type in varying speeds and fade times, but it doesn’t seem to change. Any ideas?
June 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
@ggirl – after doing some troubleshooting on your system, I’ve tracked down the problem – the ‘author’ column is missing in wp_QuoteRotator table. The reason why it is missing is that for some strange reason you do not have ALTER TABLE permission on your MySQL database. You can contact your hosting provider to rectify that situation.
Quick Workaround: maunally add an ‘author’ column to the table using phpMyAdmin.
June 9th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
@poonam – as noted in the instructions above, Settings entered directly in shortcode or PHP override the settings saved in the administration settings
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
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June 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Great plugin. Will it, or should it, work in 2.8? I tested on a clients WP site and quotes did not show. The only other plugin I have installed is Google Analyticator.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Does this work on WP2.8? Luke Howell’s doesn’t and I’m trying to find a replacement.
June 28th, 2009 at 5:27 am
I have this running nicely on a 2.8 WordPress site. Only problem is the code it generates does not validate. Look at any site with this plugin running using the validator at http://www.w3.org and you’ll see it generates invalid code.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Thanks for confirming it runs on 2.8. I can add CDATA tags around the onpage JavaScript in future release so that it is ignored by validators.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Hi! Of course, thank you for this handy little tool.
I did the workaround you mentioned in comment #46:
global $quoteRotator;
before
echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode();
That worked great in my php enabled widget. However, now I have the title of the widget “About Me” appearing twice? What can I modify to remove the italicized version of the title?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:37 am
NEVERMIND – I found the fix! Thank you anyway.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Hi Aidan, this works as advertised and is the best documented of the tools I’ve looked at – thanks!
But, maybe I’m odd in this regard, but I only want a single quote to show up when a page is loaded. I don’t think it is possible to configure your plugin that way. I don’t think I’m up to making the modifications. Is it something you’ve been asked for?
Thanks
Mike
July 6th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Ah, flexi-quote-rotator without the ‘rotator’ bit… Since it’s just removing functionality should be easy enough to do, but can’t say when I’ll have a chance (or need) to get around to it. In the meantime maybe you could just add a super long delay so that effectively the quotes wouldn’t rotate.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:17 am
I downloaded the plugin and receive a stack overflow error at line 0 whenever I try to load it in IE, and does not work at all in FireFox. Was wondering if anyone else has had this issue. I am running Quote Rotator version 0.1.3 and WordPress version 2.7.1
July 15th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Do search engines index the content of the quotes?
July 15th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Just wanted to note that this plugin is not compatible with Featured Content Gallery. My guess is that it’s the same JS library issue that others were having. Makes me sad to not be able to use such a great plugin.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:26 am
@scott: most likely not since they are inserted with Javascript
July 15th, 2009 at 11:05 am
As long as you’re answering, any way to add fade out option? Great plugin!
July 15th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
not currently
July 19th, 2009 at 6:42 am
This plugin is a perfect fit for what I was looking for, but it appears to have lost all visual appeal when I put in in my index.php.
As you can see at thespartana.net (below the section titled “Everything Else”), all formatting has been stripped and I’m just left with a giant 8 and the quote text.
I appreciate any help you can offer.
July 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am
@Patrick – check your styles settings for the plugin – the plugin stylesheet does not appear to be set properly. Read not on styling above for more info.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
As someone also mentioned earlier, I am have trouble with the quote html validating.
You mentioned something about CDATA. How can I adjust my files to get the validation fixed?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 am
An Easy 10-min fix to make it validate:
Open: quote-rotator.class.php
Found in the wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/classes folder.
Go to about line 221 and you should see this:
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n";right below that add this:
echo "//<![CDATA[\n";Then go down to where it says:
echo "</script>";and right above that you add:
echo "//]]>\n";save and now it should validate.
Note to Aidan: Grrr… Now! :)
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:53 am
Thanks Kenneth!
July 27th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Great Plugin –
Is it possible to have the quotes fade out smoothly? Now it just disappears before the new quote fades in.
I took a look at the code, but not sure how to add a fade-out.
Thanks!
July 29th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Please help. I’ve been using the plugin on XAMPP without any problems. Today I tried using the plugin on a live server and I cannot add quotes. When I enter the quote and click on “Add Quote”, nothing gets saved. I tried re-installing he plugin, no success.
Thank you so much for your help and great plugin
July 29th, 2009 at 10:36 am
@Dan – check response 98 to see if you are having same issue
July 29th, 2009 at 10:37 am
@Kevin – I’ve no plans to work on that at the moment. But if anyone else has a go at it, let us know.
August 4th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Thank you for the very usefull plugin. But I can’t use it.
My blog is in Russian and I want use Russian quotes. But there are only “??????????” in the sidebar (and in admin menu after saving too)instead of normal letters.
I think you must add supporting of Unicode (or something like that) for using your plugin with non-English sites
August 5th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
@Kenneth Henderson
Thanks for the great info on how to resolve the validation issue! worked like a charm. Post 118 for others that need to get it to validate.
August 6th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Is there any way to get it to show say the latest 5 posts from a particular category?
August 6th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
@Martin Granger: That would require customisation.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Hi,
I have a lot of qoutes, and noticed that they show up in the source and push the body html way down. Does this affect my SEO? Does google take the quotes into account when indexing pages?
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. Love the plug-in, by the way.
August 25th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
@Jeff H: The script is in the head so no negative impact for SEO. Also see response 112.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
This is an incredible plugin. I tested it on my local installation and was about to implement it on my other live blog when I noticed the “Done, but with errors on page.” on the status bar. This also happens on the Dashboard when I’m on the “Qoutes” settings page.
Anyone has been through his and fixed it and come out unscathed?
August 27th, 2009 at 8:58 am
@bbjames_perfection: Sounds like it could be clash with Javascript libraries. Try:
1. open Javascript console to see where error is coming from
2. deactivate all other plugins to see if error goes away, then reactivate 1 by 1 until you find which one is clashing
3. if you cant figure anything out, post a link here
August 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Has anyone figured out how to hack this widget so it can appear in multiple sidebars? Currently it can only be used in one sidebar type on *one* page.
Tom
September 6th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Hi, first off, thanks for this excellently crafted WordPress plugin. Its dunctionality is one and yet to be seen on any other plugin.
The only small problem I’m having in our website is:
This plugin gets in conflict with Slimbox and/or Thickbox — Lightbox — type of image sliders/viewers.
I’d appreciate it very much, if you give an attention to this issue. Right now I’ve disabled Flexi rotator in our website. I’d like to reactivate it and use it again upon solvation. Also, should you need cooperation on testing Flexi rotator, please do email me.
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Jake
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
I’ve got images at the top left of all my quotes and a few images of flags in the bottom right (see website link) – I’ve uploaded larger flags but they’re coming in distorted even though I’ve downsized them, not blow up the original small ones (see Australian flag in the Stowe quote). Just wondering – could this distortion be a transformation the plugin is making? Thanks
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:02 pm
it’s just outputting html so check your html outside of quote rotator
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Help me,
No charged the Quotes, no render in html page, HELP ME PLEASE, Sugestions
October 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Hi there
I can’t get the quote rotator to appear properly. The quotes show up in the sidebar great, rotate great, etc. but I can’t get the title to disappear and it doesn’t appear as it shows in your demo in the rounded-corner box, etc. Help!? It is installed as a widget in my sidebar.
October 20th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Thanks for the nice plugin!
I’ve got the widget with white text on a colorful background. When it fades in, there’s like a dark shadowing behind the text. Is there any way to take that out?
Thanks!
October 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
probably can be adjusted in css – if you send me a link I’ll have a look
November 8th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I cannot seem to be able to activate it. I get a Fatal Error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class quoterotatormanagement in /home/creas1/public_html/creationcassel/blog/wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/classes/quote-rotator-management.class.php on line 5
Any help available?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:58 am
@Cassel: Do you also happen to have the quote-rotator plugin (the original plugin that flexi-quote-rotator is based on) installed? If that’s the case you would need to de-activate it first.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:52 am
New to WP and this plugin.. Just wanted to point out that on a site using this plugin, I noticed in LiveHeaders that a 403 Forbidden was getting thrown for what turns out to have been the default installation of this Quote Rotator plugin for /wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/styles/ . To fix, I just went to the plugin settings page and clicked submit/apply with “None” for stylesheet selected. It appeared to have been on “None” but was never applied, so Quote Rotator was trying insert the above styles path with not .css specified.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@bcswebstudio Thanks for letting me know. I would not have expected that to happen since the code is testing for file_exists before inserting the stylesheet. I’ll have to look at it again.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
@Aidan: I’ve got a new problem (from what I can read above)
The snippet code works in post/page, but the php snippet absolutely refuses to work anywhere (I am trying to include it in my footer) – and forces everything below the entry to disappear.
Nothing in console either. I’m baffled.
http://www.familyofficenetwork.com/uncategorized/quote-test/ to see what I’m working with.
Thanks a million.
Cody
November 11th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@Cody: did you try just plain one -
< ?php echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode(); ?>
also check that if where you are inserting it is already inside php tags then it is just -
echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode();
otherwise it just something to do with the html/css on your page. Check the html source to see if there is any output.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
great plugin folks! i’ve been experimenting with it for a bit. Can i just ask though, how do i use it to display different testimonials throughout different sections of our site? am unable to do so through the admin end it seems.
November 29th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@chris: it doesn’t have that feature
December 4th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I can’t get the PHP snippet to work at all – it gives me: Fatal error: Call to a member function getQuoteCode() on a non-object – latest version of WordPress, all other plugins disabled.
Also – it conflicts with the Admin Menu plugin – when that is activated the menu item “Quotes” under Tools disappears completely. I’m guessing the access level isn’t set correctly on that item, because I can still see the “Quote Rotator” under Settings.
December 4th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
@Cas: you would get that error if it is not installed correctly, i.e. the $quoteRotator object would not exist – check that it is installed correctly.
I’m not familiar with admin menu plugin. Access level is set to 10. You can try editing it on line 72 of flexi-quote-rotator.php.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Hmm – here’s what I did –
1. Upload ‘flexi-quote-rotator’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Here’s another thought – I’m using a child theme of Thematic, which uses jQuery. Looks like because of the conflicts, I can’t use Flexi-Quote-Rotator.
Maybe putting something to the effect of “If your theme uses jQuery, Flexi-Quote-Rotator may not work for you” in your FAQ section would save yourself and others some troubleshooting time?
I’m sad that I can’t use it – You have a great plugin here, thanks for all your hard work, and thanks for helping me and others troubleshoot. I appreciate your time and guidance.
December 25th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Love the plugin and design, but although it seemed to install okay, and I added several quotes, when I open the page to take a look it says “Loading quotes” but never actually loads them… Suggestions?
December 25th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Sorry–just looked through the posts and can clarify. How do I tell which other plugin might be using jquery? And if it’s not that, where do I put in wp_head. Sorry for the newbie q’s, but I am indeed a newbie at this. :-)
December 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Trying to use the shortcode to insert a rotating quote on my static front page. The quotation box shows up, but no words/quotation. I’m using the following plugins:
Add From Server
Category Page
Category Page Extender
Editor Extender
Filosofo Home-Page Control
One Click Plugin Updater
The Attached Image
and of course Flexi-Quote Rotator
Any suggestions? I’d really rather not put the quotes into my theme or sidebar using php or a widget, since they’re already pretty crowded.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Nice plugin. Works brilliant. Any work arounds to get IE do the fading in as nice as in FF?
January 6th, 2010 at 1:14 am
Props on the plugin sir. Couple of feature requests (well, one feature request and one plugin-spin off idea)
1. Option to have the quote fade out instead of just disappearing before the next quote fades in.
2. This plugin, set up exactly as it is, but it grabs Twitter posts from a customizable list of Twitter users (like w/ the quotes), parses out the @replies and outputs them in the same way as this plugin. I HATE Twitter plugins that output tweets in unordered lists.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 am
Hey there – any possibility of ever making the plugin a bit more abstracted and let people choose what JS framework to use? It seems it shouldn’t be too complex to make the plugin use, for example, jQuery, which is very quickly becoming the most popular javascript library for convenient little plugins/scripts like this. Quite a few plugins are now adding options to choose the JS framework for that very reason (Shadowbox WP plugin, for example). Anyway, just wanted to voice some support for the idea of adding jQuery support. :)
January 26th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Nice plugin, I added several quotes and then put [quoteRotator title="Poker Quotes" delay="1" fade="4"] on one of the pages. When I go to the page it says “Poker
Loading Quotes… ” and never comes back. If I just put in [quoteRotator] I get quotes, but it does not seem to work in ie, it works in firefox and safari. The site I am working on is lifeontilt.com
January 26th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
@Roseann – it could be a library conflict – looks like you have some plugin using jquery. Disable all other plugins to verify. Then see if you can modify settings so that the conflicting plugin and this one do not appear on same page if that’s possible.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:24 am
I’m having trouble with this plugin conflicting with another. (Featured Content Gallery)
Is it possible to have both?
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
For inserting into a template, I just wipe the narrow-plain.css template blank and save.
I also leave the quote rotators title blank.
Then I put this div wherever I want the quotes to show up. div style=”margin-top:15px;margin-left:15px;padding:0;position:absolute;”>getQuoteCode(“”, 30, 4); ?> div
This allows me to have just the quotes appear, cleanly wherever I want on the page. I can also add more style tags to the div as well.
My little contribution here is far from the perfect solution but, works for my needs and is easy to manipulate.
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Sorry, the original comment was stripped of code. The other example showed up but, don’t forget your starting and ending div tag format…
< then
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
[code]
getQuoteCode("", 30, 4); ?>
[/code]
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Sorry folks, cannot post the code here… Just wont work…
February 4th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Love your Quote Rotator. Works great. Only one feature suggestion. variable timer for each quote. This would allow long time for long quotes and shorter for short quotes.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Hey – I love this thing, but how come no ‘donate’ button? I’d love to throw a few bucks your way as a thankyou for a stellar piece of work
February 5th, 2010 at 8:05 am
Still waiting on an answer for my question back in December. Tried disabling other plugins and still no luck with the shortcode. Any suggestions?
February 5th, 2010 at 9:15 am
@Jennifer: If you send me a link to a page where you’ve set it up, I’ll take a look.
April 9th, 2010 at 4:41 am
The settings options in the admin panel is redundant for the widget. After filling in the settings options, they do not update the quote widget.
April 9th, 2010 at 9:38 am
@Raphael – Yes, for widget the settings are in the widget settings. This is mentioned in the instructions.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Hi, guys I try to add this plugin to my WP 2.9.2 install (http://174.132.148.194/~tatec0cu/) and get the following error:
Fatal error:
Call to a member function getQuoteCode() on a non-object in /home/tatec0cu/public_html/wp-content/themes/tateco/header.php on line 63
any idea why?
April 12th, 2010 at 9:09 am
@Dwaynne – see comment #46 (I’ve also added a note in usage, point 3. in the readme)
April 14th, 2010 at 7:30 am
I got a similar error. I used to use the original Quote Rotator plugin and had to deactivate that first.
April 14th, 2010 at 9:02 am
@John – Thanks for letting us know that, it may be the cause of problems for some people. This plugin should not be used together with the original Quote Rotator plugin.
April 18th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Is there a way to change to setting to allow the quotes to rotate more than once?
April 18th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Greetings
I enjoy your plugin. I recently upgraded; and now I don’t know how to change the background color of the text box. The color of the text box has changed for two of my websites:
http://www.LifelinesProverbs.com -and-
http://www.AfrikanNames.com
I would appreciate any help you could offer to get my yellow boxes back.
Thanks,
Hodari
April 18th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Greetings again, I neglected to include the specific pages:
http://afrikannames.com/find-names/random-name-generator/
http://lifelinesproverbs.com/proverbs/random-proverb
Again, I would appreciate any help you could offer.
Thanks,
Hodari
April 18th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Just in case you see this message, I figured out how to change the colors. I am new to WordPress, so forgive my ignorance. I try… smile.
Thanks for the plugin.
April 18th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
the quotes automatically rotate back around when the end is reached
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:15 am
Hi Aidan, thanks for a great plugin. :) Question…I’m using the widget version of this in the sidebar. I’ve loaded a variety of quotes in different lengths. I want this widget to appear in the top of the sidebar. It works great! The only problem…when the quotes fade in and out, the size of the quote changes the whole layout of the page (longer quotes make the page longer, shorter quotes make it jump back to a smaller footprint). Is there a way to make the quote appear in a fixed area, instead of it dynamically changing the size of the whole sidebar every time a new quote loads?
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 am
@Kathleen – That can be controlled with your stylesheet by adding a rule to set the height of the containing element.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Lovely rotator, but would we awesome if it was possible somehow to list ALL quotes on a single page. I am using it for testimonials, and need a page to “view all” testimonials …
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:33 am
@Aidan @Kathleen -
could you be more specific about what needs to be done to set the height to be fixed?
April 25th, 2010 at 9:24 am
The name “Quote Rotator” appears at the top of the rotator on my site. What am I doing wrong that’s making this appear? In the admin area, I named it something else, but this is what still shows up. Thanks in advance for your help!
April 26th, 2010 at 8:53 am
OK, figured out the answer to my noob question. Thanks!
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:38 pm
“That can be controlled with your stylesheet by adding a rule to set the height of the containing element.”
Aidan, could you write the rule for us less skilled folks and tell us where and how to insert it? Or could you maybe make that a default and issue an updated version? I don’t know how to do it and will have to deactivate it as a result. Too bad cuz I really like it a lot. You’ve got a great widget here. Pleeeeeeease update?? Thanks for listening.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:42 am
@paul – you can add a style like this to your stylesheet (change the 200px to whatever height works for you):
#quoterotator {
height: 200px;
}
May 9th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I’m using the widget version in the sidebar. The name “Quote Rotator” appears at the top of the rotator on my site. In the admin area, I named it something else, but this is what still shows up. It was working before the latest update. TIA!
May 14th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Love the plugin. Tried an earlier version, but it caused slow page loading. Not an issue now though.
Like others above I have the quotes in my sidebar and I want to set a fixed height. I see the code you suggest above and I know where my style sheets are, but I am not sure where to put the code.
Sorry for the silly question, but what can I say?
Thanks!
May 15th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Is it possible to dictate which quotes appear on each page by their IDs. As in for page A I want quotes id 1 and 5 to appear and for page B I want quotes 4 and 9 to appear?
May 15th, 2010 at 6:20 am
Is it possible to specify which quotes appear on which page by their ids. As in if I want quote 3 and 5 to appear on page A and quote 2 and 7 to appear in page B?
May 18th, 2010 at 4:16 am
Hi. The plugin was working fine with a few quotes. My client added more — total of 125. Now getting message “Loading Quotes” but they don’t load. Is there a limit to the number of quotes? Thanks!
May 18th, 2010 at 9:52 am
It’s working again :-) I deleted the widget and reactivated it.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:08 am
i want to know how can i use this widget on more than one sidebars
May 20th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Hi and thx for making this plugin!
After updating to the latest version, I have the following problem:
in between qoutes, it seems that the space the div takes is also disappearing, which makes the div below it hop up & down between quotes, no matter how I set the #quoterotator.
Could it be something with the #quotearea ?
thx in advance.
May 20th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Update: I fixed it by adding an extra div around #quoterotator, in quote-rotator.class.php, and gave that extra div a fixed height in my CSS.
May 21st, 2010 at 10:02 am
Tibor: I want to do the same thing. Can you be more specific in terms of what you did and where you did it? Thanks!
May 28th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
My website just says Loading Quotes… A few other people had the same problem but I couldn’t find a solution posted anywhere. ANY IDEAS PLEASE?!
May 28th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
@Melanie: it means the JavaScript is not working. Most common cause for this is a clash with other plugins. To troubleshoot, disable all other plugins and check again. Make sure javascript is enabled in your browser.
May 29th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Aidan – Are you able to provide some help or future functionality to allow widget to be a certain height and to prevent the output from subsequent widgets from jumping up and down based on the quote length? I think I want to do what Tibor did (see 195 above), but I don’t know how to do this.
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 am
Hello Aidan,
Thanks for the plugin. Is there a way to set the limit for characters to display?
Thanks,
Anton
June 5th, 2010 at 5:37 am
Hi, love the ease of use for this widget but wanting it to do two things –
#1 – I want a fixed area that the quotes are displayed in. Currently the quote displays, deletes, displays, deletes — it looks like flashing!!
#2 – I’d like it to do exactly what it does, but then display a list of all quotes on a separate page. Is this possible?
Thanks!
June 11th, 2010 at 7:21 am
Hey,
Thanks for an awesome plugin… :)
@Kenneth Henderson
Thanks for the fix, unfortunately it doesn’t work for me – I am overhauling my site and the last thing I need to do it make it validate, and I’m sooooo close!!
You said to go to line 221, but my file only goes up to line 197 and the line you quoted doesn’t exist in my file – I only have :
“”;
or some variant of it…
Did you perhaps have an earlier version of the plugin? Do you have any idea how I can fix mine? (0.2) ?
I would really appreciate any help – from anyone!!
Thanks in advance :)
Zoe
June 14th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Scratch that – I got it to work – thanks again for a great plugin and @Kenneth Henderson – thanks for the solution – I pasted it somewhere else and it worked great :)
June 28th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
The plugin was working fantastically, then I upgraded the plugin recently and the title keepps coming up as ‘Quote Rotator’ instead of what I put in the settings area. Has anyone come across this and solved it? Thanks
July 4th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Love this plugin but I’m having a small issue. The HTML is not rendering in the widget. I tried to find the lines in the fix mentioned earlier, but this version is obviously newer.
It is not a huge issue, but would like to be able to provide direct links to sites from the widget.
I have tried adding it in the quote area and the author area to no avail….any ideas.
This is the code snippet
from SANDS SA
*added spaces so it wouldn’t render in the comment. Also even though I put double quotation marks ” when it saved it reverted to apostrophes ‘
July 4th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Ok sorry about posting twice but the code rendered anyway even with the extra paces will try again. This time I have removed the opening and closing tags
a href=’http://www.sandssa.org’ target=’_new’ / from SANDS SA /a
July 5th, 2010 at 9:12 am
@Anni – just tested it and it works fine with anchor tags added. Your quote characters don’t look right – try with double quotes.
July 5th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
No matter what title I put, it always comes up as ‘Quote Rotator` ! Any solution to this ? (using the widget method)
July 9th, 2010 at 4:45 am
Works flawlessly in Firefox, but I’m having a slight issue in IE that I can’t diagnose. The text renders with what looks like about 80-90% opacity (i.e. all quote text looks light…but only in IE).
I’m matching the style of other widgets so I need a very close match and in IE it’s not working.
Any ideas?
July 9th, 2010 at 6:18 am
My font doesn’t appear clear in the sidebar widget. I can’t read any of the text at all. Any suggestions?
July 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am
you could try the older version of the plugin which used the scriptaclous library instead of jquery – it may make a difference in IE
July 10th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Thanks for the quick reply Aidan. I’ll give it a try. And thanks for the awesome plugin.
July 10th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Can you tell me why large fonts look so bad using this? They are very choppy looking. I’ve also tried to use a custom.css file but nothing I add to it will take effect with regard to fonts.
July 10th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Not sure why my previous post was deleted. Is there a fix for rendering the fonts (especially larger ones) in IE? The text looks fine in Firefox but in IE is very choppy and grainy. I’ve look thru all the posts above but don’t see a resolution.
July 10th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Oh… and I should say… I love the plug-in… exactly what I was looking for. Just need it to look better in IE.
July 11th, 2010 at 1:54 am
Hi Aidan
This plugin is just what I’m looking for. I have been using it on a local development site and it worked just fine, anyway my problem is that I have uploaded to a live website and it states no quotes found, although I can see the quotes and author tables are in phpadmin. Have you any ideas why this might not work?
Another point is that the starting quote appears to be always the same and not random? Any ideas why this may not be working correctly.
I want to thank you for providing such a good plugin, and I’m sure give it time I will be able to find solutions to these problems.
Thanks
Graeme
July 14th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Is there any way to get the space taken to be consistent? When I use both long and short quotes there is a “jerkiness” as it transitions. And if I have widgets below the quote rotator those widgets jump up and down depending on quote size. A consistent size that is based on the longest quote would be optimum in my opinion.
July 23rd, 2010 at 2:44 am
Hello,
Is it possible to use this plugin in conjuction with WPML? Because I don’t know how.
Thanks!
Kees
August 1st, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Hi Aidan!
I love your plugin but I am having a problem inserting the php code into the sidebar.
I have tried pasting
getQuoteCode(); ?>
As well as
getQuoteCode(); ?>
but neither seems to work. The widget and shortcodes work fine but I am trying to show the quotes at the top of my sidebar.
I am using wordpress 3.0.1
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Lawrence
August 4th, 2010 at 9:45 am
We really like the Quote Rotator. The one thing I’m wondering is if there is a way to keep it from having a blank in the rotation with the other quotes?
August 16th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Hi There,
Love the plug in, and it’s just what I was looking for, but I’m having issues styling the fonts. I’ve set the css to none, and added the styles into my main style sheet. I can contol the line-height, but not the actual font. Where is that being pulled from?
The site is not live, but to view the page you can login.
User:anyone
pass:guest
thanks for any pointers.
August 19th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Guys this is a great bit of kit, however… When you run it through a web validator ( W3C ) it slings up four errors. Thus compromising an otherwise valid page.
Is there anything you could do to perhaps tighten up the code?
I would have a go myself but what I know about coding you could write on a mouses john thomas…
cheers,
ian
August 20th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Hey there,
I am new to the plug-ins world. I have installed the quote rotator, but I don’t know how to make it actually appear on the site. Feel free to explain it to me like I am a five-year old.
Thanks for your patience with a newbie question!!!
Les
August 28th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
I have your great plugin on only the home page sidebar widget. However the code shows on the source code on every page on the site.
Is this the way the plugin has to work or can it be modified to only display in the source if used on the page.
September 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 am
I’ve added the php to my header and works great except for one thing. When it reloads, it makes the page “skip” and looks rather odd. Any thoughts?
September 5th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
This is a beautiful, incredibly useful plugin. Thank you!
One strange thing – I have 5 quotes entered in the quote section. And I CANNOT EDIT OR DELETE the first quote. The action choices don’t show up. The other quotes are fine.
Suggestions? I need to edit or delete the first quote – the website link is wrong.
Thanks again!
September 6th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Hi Aidan,
I’m loving this plug in. I have it in a sidebar with one other widget on my home page and want to run it with two different widgets on other other pages. My Widget admin does not show Quote Rotator in the available box when it is installed in one sidebar. Is it possible to upload two versions, if so what do I need to change to make this possible?
Kind Regards
Neal
September 13th, 2010 at 1:34 am
There was a reply above about adding a fixed height to the widget area so that the quotes don’t jump around when they rotate by Tibor here:
Update: I fixed it by adding an extra div around #quoterotator, in quote-rotator.class.php, and gave that extra div a fixed height in my CSS.
Could you show what that code snippet would be and where it would go?
Thanks, love the plugin.
September 14th, 2010 at 1:22 am
I searched and searched…and this is the perfect plugin for what I needed. I’m using it on http://www.125mgdesign.com/justin to recycle jokes for this comedian. My only problem is that once the jokes run through, it stops and won’t show any more jokes. Is there a way to run continuously–in case people are on the site for a long time?
Thanks for such a great plugin!
September 14th, 2010 at 8:52 am
@Ryan: The quotes should automatically recycle once they get to the end. You will see that happen in the example on this site. I looked at your and they seem to be looping back around ok.
September 15th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Has anyone else seen a problem when they open the flexi quote rotator in IE? It looks all blurry on the site, and the author especially looks weird. Any ideas?
Thanks!!
September 15th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Hi Aidan-
Thanks for the quick response. Well, that’s good that it’s looping back on your end. What browser are you using? Maybe it’s a browser issue. It’s still not “looping” for me. Man, I really, really love this plugin. Do you see a multi-location quote plugin coming anytime soon ;-)
September 15th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
@Ryan: Firefox, but I shouldn’t expect it to be a browser issue, it uses jQuery and should work in all modern browsers. Check your javascript console to see if there are any errors reported. You can verify that it’s looping back around on this site. One option would be to try the older version of the plugin which used the scriptaclous library instead of jquery. Looking at it again looks like it loops around sometimes and other times it stops, not necessarily at the last quote. Disable other plugins to check if there is some conflict. Check the quote data you have entered in canse there is something wierd like a blank row or something.
September 27th, 2010 at 4:03 am
HI Aidan- Me again…is there a definitive limit of quotes you can put in here? We have (14) now and many times it wants to just show a few quotes and stop rotating through.
Also, how would I go about checking my javascript console for errors and where do I find the older version of this plugin?
Thanks Adrian.
September 27th, 2010 at 9:00 am
There shouldn’t be any limit.
In Firefox it’s Tools > Error Console
Older versions: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/download/
Try 0.1.3 – it uses a different JavaScript library – Scriptaculous instead of jQuery
September 29th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Hi Guys,
Great plug in! I am using it as a sidebar widget, During the time between the quotes, The widget size/height compacts (see site) causing the whole bottom of the theme, below the plugin to jump. Is there any way to fix this jumping or code the plugin to a fixed height, even bewteen quotes?
Thanks,
Steve
September 30th, 2010 at 1:11 am
HI Aidan
The snippet code works in post/page, but the php snippet absolutely refuses to work anywhere (I am trying to include it in my footer / header ) – and forces everything below the entry to disappear.
Nothing in console either. I’m baffled.
please help me.
Thanks a million.
mahesh chavan
September 30th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Sorry, was reading back posts and found the answer.
Thanks
September 30th, 2010 at 7:58 am
It”s me again. I have tried all the suggestions above but the page still jumps between quotes loading. Can someone post the code here to correct this problem. Make the quote box a fixed height for a WP widget
Thanks
October 1st, 2010 at 2:42 am
Aidan,
Can you please help me implement a solution for setting a fixed height for the quote widget. Right now the Quote Rotator widget is causing my other widgets to “jump” every time a new quote loads.
Thank You,
Brian
October 1st, 2010 at 7:42 am
@Brian: in your stylesheet, set the div with the id quotearea to have a fixed height e.g.
#quotearea {height: 80px;
}
October 2nd, 2010 at 3:43 am
Aidan-
I followed your advice and ran it through the “error console.”" I got a syntax error, but nothing major as for as showing conflict for another plugin. I have been able to determine that this problem is only on the home page (on the inner pages, the jokes rotate forever). Can I pay you to diagnose this page and figure out why these jokes stop at a certain point and don’t continue to rotate?
It would really help me. Thank you Aidan.
October 2nd, 2010 at 7:05 am
Aidan-
Nevermind. I found the problem. It was a content slider that I was using (smooth slider) that was causing the problem. This works perfectly. Now, I just need to find another slider ;-) Have a great weekend.
October 5th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Aidan,
After sending my prior message, I discovered this in the Firefox error console:
“Error: quoteRotator is not defined
Source File: http://sillysutras.com/
Line: 478″
October 7th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Please can you make it so that this is compatible with version 3.0.1 of wordpress.
Thanks in advance!
I love this plugin!
October 7th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
@Amy: It already is.
October 12th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Great Plugin! I’m wondering if there is a way to add a cufon font to the plugin. I am using the all-in-one cufon plugin for wordpress and if I target #footer or .widgets or #quoterotator the cufon font will effect the widget but only the first occurrence (in this case the “loading quotes…”). As soon as the quotes begin to rotate the cufon is lost. Any ideas?
Thanks again for a great plugin!
October 12th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Sorry don’t know anything about cufon fonts but I would assume you specify them in the css as you would with a normal font. The css can be customised for the quote rotator so you should specify any fonts there. There are some notes on styling above.
October 18th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
FYI. The website listed is being worked on before the real domain name is set to it. It’s backend on my own server for now…
Anyway, great potential plugin, but I have tried almost everything to get this thing to work, but it will not adjust the length of delay no matter what I do. I’m using it in pure widget form, no shortcode.
I have turned off every other plugin.
I tried to use the previous version of the plugin but got the perpetual “loading quotes…” message with no quotes.
The name of the widget stays and can be adjusted, but the time remains about 5 seconds between rotation, no matter what I do.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
October 19th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
the plugin is not working with utf-8 content. pity!
October 20th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
As many have mentioned above, this plugin works great in every browser except for IE. In IE the text looks very jagged, especially the italicized span. See screenshot here:
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9242/flexirotator.jpg
Anyone find a workaround for this?
October 23rd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
This is a great plugin! Is there a way to make it work with posts, or excerpts from posts? Or do I have to manually put all the quotes in?
Thanks!
Robert
October 26th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Thanks Aiden! Works great, my “wish” is that I could display a set of quotes for each page.
October 28th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Aiden, I have the same problem as noted by several previous posters…that is the Quote Rotator widget is causing my other widgets to “jump” every time a new quote loads. As suggested in my stylesheet, I set the div with the id quotearea to have a fixed height like what is shown.
#quotearea {
height: 80px;
}
However, the problem persists. I have tested in IE7, 8 and FF 3.6.
Can you recommend a solution or maybe visit the site and see if I’m missing something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
October 28th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Hi
I’m looking for the parts of the code you mentioned, but it’s just not there in that file:
—
Open: quote-rotator.class.php
Go to about line 221 and you should see this:
echo “\n”;
Then go down to where it says:
echo “”;
—
Where do I add this? What I have is:
October 29th, 2010 at 6:43 am
Never mind, I found the fix. If you want I’ll post it, it’s a little different from what’s shown above. But now there’s another slight issue that I’m having trouble tracking down. The box that the widget is in sort of changes size. I’ve modified the css as per the instructions above, but that doesn’t address the issue of the actual box that houses the widget changing size. It’s not a big issue now, as I have nony help would be appreciated :)
October 29th, 2010 at 6:45 am
It’s not a big issue now, as I have no boxes beneath it, but if I want to keep it that way, I can never place additional sidebar widgets beneath it, so I would like to address this issue. Any help would be appreciated :)
Sorry, my computer went wonky and I had to repost this part… :/
October 29th, 2010 at 8:10 am
@Dan (+ S + anyone having a problem with widget height fluctuation): The ID on the widget on your page is actually ‘quote’ instead of ‘quotearea’. So this will css will solve the issue:
#quote {
height: 200px;
}
I will try to add a configuration option for height in future release (when I get around to it)
November 2nd, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Thanks Aidan, works like a charm now. Looks Great!!
November 5th, 2010 at 11:31 am
hey aidan… this plugin is wonderful and other than the whole global $quoteRotator; needed for the template function i have never had a problem with it.
until now.
i have installed it (v 0.2) on a MU version of 3.0.1 but some weird things are happening… i am able to add quotes in the admin of the site whos backend i installed the plugin intially, but even though it is set for network usage i cannot add quotes on other sites.
any idea what is going on?
also, just a suggestion for future updates, make it where i can have quotes throughout the MU install so that some are global (for lack of a better word) which are displayed throughout the network and some are just for that specfic blog
November 5th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
@richard – I’ve never tested it in MU environment so I’m not even sure if it’s compatible. If anyone reading this has used it in MU, please share your experience.
November 5th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
ah, im sorry, i thought i read in the changelog somewhere that you had done some testing with mu, no worries, i am sure i can muddle through it.
November 5th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
let us know if you find anything out that could be of use to other MU users.
Cheers, Aidan
November 18th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Sounds like Tibor’s solution of inserting a new div tag is the only way to reliably fix the height. I’m handy with CSS, but have no idea how to put this into the php file. Anyone with a clue and a good example?
November 24th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Hi,
We are using the Flexi Quote rotator on a client site and, it appears, that the initial quote doesn’t show up for a time equivalent to the length of the delay which leaves the quote container empty for that period. Since we are using a longer delay this problem is very noticeable.
Is there a way to force the first quote to show immediately and then move into the delay instead of the other way around?
Thanks!
November 28th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Also having the height issue with quote rotator but more troublesome is this error message.
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/itspurpl/public_html/staging/Bootstrap/wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/classes/quote-rotator.class.php:393) in /home/itspurpl/public_html/staging/Bootstrap/wp-admin/theme-editor.php on line 89
Its only on staging server right now but I am hesitant to even activate it on the live site.
December 3rd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Working great. Managed to change CSS to fix the height issue. Works in IE 6, Safari, Firefox etc.
However in IE 7 only the first line and a half appear, even though the real estate for the whole box is there.
You can check it out here:
http://fd101dev.com/valley/
It’s implemented as a widget in the right hand blue column.
Any clues?
December 3rd, 2010 at 4:44 pm
It’s a css issue – I see you have:
#quoterotator {
height:32px;
}
In IE7 it is getting cut off at 32px so you need to increase that value
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Hi,
We are using the Flexi Quote rotator on a client site and, it appears, that it is not compatible with ie7.any idea about this problem
December 4th, 2010 at 5:33 am
Hi,
We are using the Flexi Quote rotator on a client site and, it appears, that the initial quote doesn’t show up for a time equivalent to the length of the delay which leaves the quote container empty for that period. Since we are using a longer delay this problem is very noticeable.
Is there a way to force the first quote to show immediately and then move into the delay instead of the other way around?
Thanks!
December 5th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Quite right. I had originally made my changes to the CSS in the custom CSS tool in Headway, but then realized I should be doing in for the plugin in the narrow-plain.css instead.
I completely overlooked the conflicting styles.
All is now well and good.
Thanks for checking on my sloppy work.
December 6th, 2010 at 9:33 am
@Nitesh – works fine in IE7, you may have another plugin conflicting
December 10th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
EXCELLENT Plug-in! Thank you! Is there any way I can change ‘Loading Quotes’ to ‘Loading Testimonials’?
Thank you for your fine work.
-Patrick
December 10th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
@Patrick: see #63 above
December 14th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
It is really cool plugin and my client liked it as well.
I want to ask, is there any way to list down the quotes in a Page.
I mean I am using it as Testimonials rotating at home page. Now there should separate page to show all the Testimonials.
Is there any function for this?
January 22nd, 2011 at 9:03 am
Insert a PHP snippet in template!!
i didn’t get it:S
where do i put it excatly?
plz reply !!
January 23rd, 2011 at 7:39 am
This approach is for people who are comfortable editing WP templates. If you are not used to editing templates then this approach is not for you. If you want to learn about editing templates start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
January 28th, 2011 at 4:47 am
This plugin does not appear to be working with WordPress 3.0.4 in Firefox. I have tried disabling all other plugins; I have tried changing permissions on the files. I have tried defining the height to make sure the area is visible. I have tried adding the global variable as directed; in every case, I continue to see only ‘Loading Images…’. Failing page is here. Help?
January 30th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Hello, I am trying to insert the code snippet into my header template, but am getting and error. Any suggestions? This is how I am attempting to use the code…
***START CODE***
getQuoteCode(); ?>
***END CODE***
And this is the error I am getting….
Fatal error: Call to a member function getQuoteCode() on a non-object in /home/content/27/7127427/html/wp-content/themes/EasyIT/header.php on line 99
January 30th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
welll…. your site stripped my code. Basically your code is contained within an if statement… if page is x, then generate testimonials.
February 1st, 2011 at 10:18 am
Any idea why the background of the wordpress widget would be disappearing after the text fades in? It only appears to do it in IE, and more specifically in compatibility mode. But there are apparently lots of people noticing it. I’d love it if anyone knew the solution.
February 2nd, 2011 at 12:34 pm
good plugin Aidan!
but, could you just join the settings in one page? not in separate section like now (under Tools & Settings menu).
also, I’m wondering if in next version the quote area have a link to one single post/page where all quotes posted together and have a submit form so our visitor can share by submitting their favorite quotes.
possible?
*sorry for my bad english*
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:35 am
Hi : I love this plugin BUT it seriously invalidates the HTML. The biggest error was using “id” instead of “class” for the span “quoteauthor”. After manually correcting this and revalidating, I get the error Pema Chödron”,
?
The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements — such as a “style” element in the “body” section instead of inside “head” — or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed)” from W3 validator. I’d like to add a block level element to correct this but can’t figure out where/how due to the javascript opening the output area. Is it possible for you to correct the plugin to validate? Will have to switch otherwise… Thanks!
February 3rd, 2011 at 4:37 am
Oops, there was a tag in my paste of the error message which wiped out the message. The error was :
document type does not allow element “span” here
February 20th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Aidan: I love this plugin and am baffled by your directions in #63 to change the title in my widget from Quote Rotator to Testimonials? I am not as comfortable with html codes as others, so I need a little more detail on how to do this please. Do I go into the edit part of your plugin on my plugin page and change the code there? I feel kind of dense, but really want my testimonials to say Testimonials and not Quote Rotator and feel really frustrated trying to read thru all your posts!! Please help me get this set up so I can launch my site tomorrow. Thanks so much for all the care you put into this plugin and for the amazing support your give us!!
February 21st, 2011 at 12:36 pm
How do you increase the font size?
February 22nd, 2011 at 4:35 am
I’ve found a bug in quote-rotator.class.php, if some one types coma ther is no function that replace it to dot. That cause “Loading Quotes…” problem. I handled it with php str_replace() function. I think plugin’s author should make some update.
February 23rd, 2011 at 11:16 am
One of my quotes does not allow editting or deleting. It shows up in the sidebar and it shows up in the admin area, but it cannot be deleted. How else might I be able to delete it? I can’t find anywhere in the plugin files where the quotes are stored to be able to delete it some other way.
Thanks.
February 24th, 2011 at 8:26 am
The code for the template is:
getQuoteCode(); ?>
I couldn´t understand the explanation here, but I have found out the solution.
ENJOY IT!
March 13th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
I got this installed on my WP blog and it’s working great. Just one question though, can you create different sets of quotes for different pages? For example, I want the about page has a set of rotating quotes and then the contact page to have a different set off rotating quotes. It doesn’t seem like this plugin can do that.. or can it?
March 14th, 2011 at 8:32 am
@Rick: in the stylesheet
March 14th, 2011 at 8:34 am
@Piotr: Thanks for pointing that out. I will try to do an update soon to fix this and the jagged text in IE.
March 14th, 2011 at 8:38 am
@Steve: No the plugin only supports one set of quotes.
March 21st, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Hi,
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but when I input the php snippet code on my footer, the quotes don’t appear at all.
It used to work before but ever since I moved to a different host/reinstalled WP, it stopped working. Any ideas?
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:11 am
@Nicole: Any error msg? See if #46 above applies.
March 24th, 2011 at 9:14 am
I updated the plugin and it seemed to have done the trick. Thanks!
March 24th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Hi
Thanks for the great plugin. I’ve been using it for sometime and have just updated to the latest version and the style.css seems to be missing.
Therefore the text is now unformatted. Can you let me know how to re set this up?
Thanks
Russ
March 25th, 2011 at 5:10 am
Had this working in v0.2, but v0.3 seems to have wiped out my styling. Readme.txt says sample styles are in the Styles folder, but that folder is empty. Would love to see the sample styles. Can you email them?
March 26th, 2011 at 4:50 am
Hello, I updated to the most recent version (0.3.1.) and now the quote height is jumping up and down again. I have in my custom CSS
#quote {height: 187px;}, which fixed the height changing sizes when the quotes changed. When I upgraded I removed the rule from my CSS because I saw that you could specify the height within the widget itself. However, with or without it, the height still is changing. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Love your plugin and thanks so much in advance for your thoughts.
March 28th, 2011 at 9:39 am
I updated the plugin a few days ago, and for some reason, my flexi quote rotator has disappeared from my sidebar. It still says it’s installed and in use, but I have no idea what happened to it–as it’s not visible on my site anymore. Suggestions?
BTW, I love it — it’s been great so far!
March 28th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Nevermind. It turns out that for some reason, the widget was removed from my sidebar.
However, there has never been a border around my quotes, or any quotation marks for that matter. Is there something I can do so my quotes look like they do in the screenshot?
March 28th, 2011 at 10:43 am
@Samar – I have done another update to address htis issue, please try version 0.3.2 and let me know if that fixes it.
March 28th, 2011 at 10:50 am
@Nathan, I notice the height of your quote area is jumping around – I’ve just added a new update 0.3.2 which should resolve this.
The background styling can be done in your css stylesheet. I have included sample stylesheets which you can select under Settings > Quote Rotator. You can make your own if you understand some CSS.
March 29th, 2011 at 2:43 am
With the 3/28 update, there is now a shaded box behind the quote that extends off the page. I went to the plugin’s settings page and set the “Override Width” (in px) to my column width but it made no difference. How to you get the quote back to the way it was before where it word wraps within the designated area?
March 29th, 2011 at 10:11 am
Thanks so much Aidan! Seems to be working fine.
April 4th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I have been using this on a client’s website (http://www.citycareerservices.com/coaching) but now it is not working in IE. When you view the site in FF it works fine but in IE you get the message “Loading Quotes” but they never load.
I am using your most recently updated version.
April 4th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
@Jodi: What version of IE? What version of WP? There can be an issue with older versions of WP since jquery 1.4 is needed. But even with older versions it still works ok in IE7. If you are using WP older than 3.0, upgrade your WP or else reinstall the older version of the plugin that used to work.
April 4th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Very cool plugin, but encountering a few issues:
1) I want it to display ” instead of ‘ around each quote. How do I do that?
2) I noticed that the sidebar refreshes between each quote. Why? That is a bit distracting. Can that be eliminated?
3) When I use the html “bold” code for a quote, the text of that quote is blurry for a second or so before it clears up. I also noticed it in the Demo at the top of this page. How can I resolve that?
Thanks again!
April 5th, 2011 at 5:05 am
hello,
I’m having an issue on IE 7/8/9.
The quotes appears, after a fade in animation and then the text disappears! It only happens on Internet Explore. FF, Safari and Chrome are perfect.
I can’t figure it out this issue!
The website is http://www.maraflores.com.br/novosite!
thx, this is a great plugin.
April 5th, 2011 at 5:37 am
aidan,
I found out that the issue is with IE 9, once I’ve activated the compatibility mode it’s opened allright!
cheers,
April 5th, 2011 at 8:02 am
I am using the latest version of WP (3.1) and IE 8.
It had stopped working using the last version of your plugin. I upgraded to the newest one in the hopes that would fix it. It didn’t.
April 5th, 2011 at 9:01 am
@Jodi: Any JS errors? You possibly could have some conflicting plugins, have you tried disabling all other plugins? A quick fix will be to go back to version 0.1.3 which uses Scriptaculous instead of jQuery library.
April 5th, 2011 at 9:17 am
@Alan:
1. change the background image
2. set a fixed height
3. browser dependent – IE looses anti-aliasing when changing opacity on text. Some fonts/sizes/weights work better than others. Go with a faster transition speed and it will be less noticeable.
April 5th, 2011 at 9:24 am
@Steve, can you provide a link to where you have it set up?
April 7th, 2011 at 11:07 am
I am not sure about JS errors. But I can tell you that even using version 0.1.3 this plugin in conflict with Lightbox2.
Any suggestions on working around this issue?
April 8th, 2011 at 12:59 am
Had this plugin working for a client site before. Upgraded WordPress 3.1 and the to the new version of this plugin, 0.3.2. It does not rotate through the quotes anymore when you are on the page. It only rotates to a different quote if you refresh the page.
I have changed the settings, deactivated and reactivated the plugin with no solution.
It seemed to be working before the upgrades. Has anyone encountered such an issue yet?
April 13th, 2011 at 5:05 am
Hello Aidan,
I have a problem that just started today: it’s saying “Loading quotes…” but no testimonial display :-(
It’s located on the footer of this website: http://bit.ly/dRqrnD
Thanks a lot for your help.
April 14th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
@creation site internet annecy: I see it is working now so you must have solved the issue. Can you let us know what the issue was as it may help other people if they have a similar problem?
April 14th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
For me it seems to cycle through all quotes once and then stop and go blank. Is there a way to set it to keep looping?
I’m on WordPress 3.1.1 and Flexi Quote Rotator 0.3.2, with Firefox on a Mac. Thank you! Overall it looks very nice.
April 15th, 2011 at 1:58 am
Love the application – but does anyone else have issues with how the quotes appear in IE8? The fonts are all jumbled up and difficult to read.
April 15th, 2011 at 11:48 am
@Lizm: it should keep looping as you can see in example on this site, so must be some issue particular to your site. This site is also using WP3.1.1 and ver 0.3.2 of plugin.
April 15th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
@Pam: The problem with IE browsers is it turns anti-aliasing off when you change opacity of text (fade transition). The 0.3 version improved how it looks in IE by doing a reset after text comes in so that anti-aliasing gets turned back on in IE. I have noticed however that IE still renders some fonts at particular sizes a bit jagged but if you experiment with fonts and sizes you can get it to look fine. I have not noticed any particular issue unique to IE8 and the example on this page looks fine in IE8. Try experimenting with different fonts and sizes until you find what works in IE8.
April 20th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
FAQ Needs to be updated for WordPress 3.1
Where do I add my quotes?
Under the Tools Panel there is a Quotes link.
April 21st, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Hello Aidan,
To me it still doesn’t work: référencement de site web annecy.
I’ve disabled every plugin one by one but it stills the same…
April 22nd, 2011 at 10:15 am
@creation sites web annecy: I looked at your site and there is something weird happening to the source html – the single quotes in the javascript output have been converted to double quotes which breaks the Javascript. I have no idea what’s causing this. All I know is the plugin script outputs like this: <span id=’quoteauthor’> (see line 119 of quote-rotator.class) but your source has it changed to: <span id=”quoteauthor”> which breaks the javascript because it is already inside double quotes. You have a lot of other scripts going on there so I’ve no idea what’s causing it but I’m pretty sure it’s not a problem with flexi quote rotator.
April 23rd, 2011 at 6:43 am
Hello Aidan, thanks a lot for your help. The problem was coming from a plugin called “WP Beautifier”. It missed its goal as my website wasn’t nicer without the quotes on the footer…
April 26th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Hello, I love your plugin. However, I do not get it to rotate. And firebug displays this error: jQuery(“#quoterotator”).hide().html(this.quotes[this.i - 1]).fadeIn(this.fadeDuration * 1000).css(“filter”, “”).delay is not a function
April 28th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Rotator was working beautifully for weeks in a 125 px sidebar. Now it is displaying as a blue rectangular box (like the demo box at the top of this page), that overlaps the neighboring sidebar. Assigning fixed height and width has no impact. Using latest version of both plug-in and WordPress and have not made any recent changes to site. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
April 28th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Change your stylesheet (see Styling: above)
April 30th, 2011 at 5:59 am
Hello Aidan,
Great work on the plugin, however I have the same plugin as Karen above:
jQuery(“#quoterotator”).hide().html(this.quotes[this.i - 1]).fadeIn(this.fadeDuration * 1000).css(“filter”, “”).delay is not a function
I think that it has to do with actionpopup plugin because when I tried to deactivate it, your plugin run smoothly (btw, the error can be experience on other page i.e. http://www.voiceoverclub.com/working-with-agents/)
Please advise on what to do on this. As of now I deactivated the Action Pop Up plugin.
Thanks!
r0dger
May 2nd, 2011 at 9:19 am
@Rodger, That err msg is indicative of not having latest up-to-date version of jQuery. This can be caused by not having recent version of WP or by another plugin (most likely the one you mention) hard coding the jQuery version to an older version.
May 3rd, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Aidan, I have had this working previously but now after upgrading my WP theme and WP as well as to your new version I seem to be having a problem with not being able to have a fixed height for my quotes and they appear to jump around.
I have edited the style css to indicate height (see code below) and also entered in a height for the override in your plugin.
Can you please offer some suggestions to correct this?
Thanks!!
#quote {
background: #ffffff;
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
display: block;
padding: 12px 50px 0 50px;
margin: 15px auto;
}
#quoterotator {
line-height: 135%;
}
#quoteauthor {
display: block;
text-align: right;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
padding: 12px 0 0 0;
}
May 12th, 2011 at 7:02 am
Hi Aidan
Having two issues and haven’t found an answer listed that addresses them exactly.
The quotes fade in but then do not change. I’ve disabled all plugins and have the latest version of WP installed. Not sure what else to try.
Also, the background color does not cover the entire quote.
You can see it near the bottom of this page:
http://awakenedmansummit.com/
Happens in both FF and IE.
Thanks
Edward
May 12th, 2011 at 9:02 am
@Edward: the latest version of the plugin requires a recent version of jQuery – your version is out of date, either due to old ver of WP or some plugin forcing specific version
May 12th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
It’s conflict with the prototype library when in IE8.
May 12th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Thanks Aidan. It was the theme. I’ve taken out the code that was forcing an old version of jQuery. The quotes now rotate correctly, but I’m still getting the error message at the top of the page that the latest version of the plugin requires an update jquery.
I’ve cleared my browser cache and it’s still there. Any thoughts?
Oh and the background still doesn’t go all the way down to the bottom of the quotes.
Thanks!
Edward
May 14th, 2011 at 1:06 am
Thanks for a great plugin. I installed and working fine. problem is that I’d like to use it on several pages that has different sidebar. For example: I have it on the general sidebar but would also like it to be on contact sidebar. For all plugins I install I can do this, but for some reason I can’t do this for this plugin. Did something go wrong with my installation or you can only use it on one sidebar. Thanks.
May 16th, 2011 at 9:43 am
@Edward:
That’s not an error message – it’s my response to you on this comments section! Looks like you copy/pasted that in somewhere into your template.
re. the background – background provided is just a sample background, it’s an image. The idea is you can create your own background image if you need one.
May 16th, 2011 at 9:49 am
@Jeanie – Just one instance per page is supported. I’ve never tried it in more than one widget area so not sure about that.
May 16th, 2011 at 10:36 am
Thanks Aidan. D’Oh!
And thanks for the clarification on the background image.
May 19th, 2011 at 8:15 am
Hi Aiden,
I am a complete noob here so please bare with me. As far as I know your plugin does everything it says on the tin. I would like your plugin to display 1 quote per day. Messing about with it I have noticed the quotes reset back to the first quote everytime you enter/refresh the page. Is there anyway I can get the plugin to keep running when I am away from the site. EG. If in 3 days I go my page, the plugin will show the 3rd quote on my list instead of starting at the beginning of the list again? Hope this makes sense. Thank you.
May 19th, 2011 at 10:18 am
@Stu: You would have to modify the code to do that.
May 23rd, 2011 at 9:12 am
Hello,
Looks like a great plugin. I would like to use it, but I’m having trouble with the customization. I did two tests. On one site, I created a new css file and uploaded it to the styles folder. It appeared in the admin Quote Rotator, but the changes didn’t take into effect.
Then, on another site, I uploaded the css, but it doesn’t even appear in the admin panel.
I would like to use the Widget in the sidebar. Is this causing the css file not to be read?
Thanks for any guidance.
May 23rd, 2011 at 9:53 am
@Antonella: after you upload the stylesheet to /wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/styles/, you need to select it on the quote rotator settings page and save changes. The Firebug plugin for Firefox is great for troubleshooting stylesheet issues, I recommend you try that if you still can’t resolve the issue. You may have some mistakes in your css file.
May 26th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
There is a conflict with the jquery in Gravity Forms. Any ideas? I tried the noconflict trick but it didn’t work.
May 27th, 2011 at 9:06 am
@Rebecca: Sorry, I don’t know anything about Gravity Forms.
June 2nd, 2011 at 1:25 am
Thanks for this plugin! It is working great. Like Jeanie, I’m wondering if there is a way to display the widget option on different sidebars. I have three different sidebars to display on, but once I insert the widget into one sidebar, there are no options available to insert them into another sidebar. Any suggestions?
June 2nd, 2011 at 7:45 pm
I put a quote in Hebrew and it turned it into question marks. Hebrew is working properly on the rest of the site. Please help!
June 5th, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Can’t get the seconds for rotation to work properly. Any ideas? Still the Hebrew is showing up as question marks…
June 10th, 2011 at 8:20 am
Hi, for some reason my text is being clipped when fading, have you seen this before?
when i turn the fade in/out values to 0 the clipping doesn’t occur.
I have my text aligned to right and it clips about 5px off the right of the author and quote.
June 11th, 2011 at 2:44 am
Hi,
This is the perfect plugin I was looking for, however is there a way to dictate what quotes go on what page? Basically I would like 3 quotes on one page, and 2 other quotes on another page.
Thanks for you help!
June 11th, 2011 at 3:24 am
@whitie: no I don’t think I’ve seen that before. You could try adding some right margin or padding in your stylesheet.
June 11th, 2011 at 3:26 am
@Frances: no, it does not have this feature
June 13th, 2011 at 12:06 am
Hi, I was wondering if richard or any one else was able to get this plugin working on WordPress MU. This plugin looks like just want I’m looking for but it (and all the rest) semms not to work on Multisite.
June 29th, 2011 at 8:56 am
Hi – still noticing font pixelation/degradation on IE7. IE8/9 work great. Any thoughts on that or what JQuery code I could add to fix it? ClearType filter fix? Unfortunately, my client is on IE7… :(
Thanks!!
June 29th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
@Anne, as far as I’m aware it’s an IE limitation that can’t be resolved by doing anything differently in jQuery. The only thiong I can suggest is to try some different fonts and font sizes. What I’ve noticed in some versions of IE, pixellation is more of a problem with certain fonts and sizes
July 3rd, 2011 at 2:35 am
Can plugin be used on different pages within same website
July 4th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
@Jeff – yes
July 7th, 2011 at 3:34 am
Aidon,
I was wondering the same thing as Aubrey. This plugin in seems to be the exact thing I need as well…but I cannont get it to work on Multisite. Can you assist us with that?
Thanks :)
July 7th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Is there a way to get all quote displayed on a single page?
July 21st, 2011 at 9:40 pm
How do I add specific quotes for different pages on my website?
July 25th, 2011 at 9:36 am
I need some shortcode help? Great plugin but I really need to display certain quotes but not all of them. I see that I can do this with the template, but I’m using the FQR in my sidebars. Any suggestions to display specific quotes with shortcode?
Thanks…
August 1st, 2011 at 9:15 am
Tip:
In quote-rotater-management.class.php, change lines 40 and 53 from:
$quote = str_replace(“\”", “‘”, $quote);
to:
$quote = addslashes($quote);
This will allow you to use double quotes.
August 2nd, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Hi Aiden — thanks for a great plugin … but unfortunately the most recent version of WordPress seems to have “broken” it. I posted something on the WP forums about 3 weeks ago and a number of others have posted similar issues; here is the link: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-wp-32-broken-flexi-quote-rotator?replies=5
Any idea of what might be going on? Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Chris
August 3rd, 2011 at 9:59 am
@Chris: I’ve tested in WP 3.2.1 and works fine. I’ve updated WP on this site to latest and you can see it works fine here. (Sorry I can’t respond on the WP site as they changed all the passwords and I haven’t been able to recover mine yet.)
I see you have a Javascript error on your page in some Javascript code not related to fqr – most likely this is the problem.
August 3rd, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Hi: We run a multi-product WordPress website, with one post per product. It would be nice to have rotate through a set of testimonials relevant to each post. From earlier comments, it would appear that this is not possible at this point in time?
August 3rd, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Hi Aidan !!! thanks for a a great plugin. I use this plugin into one of my client site but it didnt rotate just after refreshing change the quote .the site url:: http://www.dietandhealthreviews.com/faruk/
August 4th, 2011 at 2:43 am
This plug-in was working perfectly, but it suddenly stopped rotating a couple of months ago. The quote loads when the page loads, but never switches to a new quote. Any ideas how to fix?
August 4th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Tips of everyone experiencing problems:
August 5th, 2011 at 5:51 am
Does anyone know how to make the gray rounded box expand with the length of the quote I put in?
Im using the narrow rounded style. But no matter how I try to change the height/width using the widget setting or main setting, the size of the box height remains constant. So if my quote is too long, some of it appears below the box.
Any help on this GREATLY appreciated! ~Jeff
August 5th, 2011 at 9:03 am
@Jeff: see Styling in instructions above
August 5th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
thanks Aidan, I’m not really sure what to do based on that. I know very little about code. I can edit it if im told exactly what to do for the desired effect, but beyond that im not a programmer. Any I dea what I would need to add or change, just to get the height of the rounded gray box to adjust to the amount of text I enter?
August 5th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
@Jeff: You can set a height override in the settings to override the height in your selected stylesheet.
The grey rounded box is an image. If you want this grey rounded box, but taller, you will need to make a new image and upload it to theme folder. If you don’t know how to make an image, you can select a style without the bg image, e.g. narrow-plain.css
August 5th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Hi Aidan
Any chance of making a slight mod to the plug-in by adding a variable called ‘ID’? The syntax could then be [quoteRotator ID="1,3,7"]. This would allow a user to selectively display a subset of the quotes; and possibly (?) allow for different quotes in different posts. In the above example, there would be seven quotes defined.
Cheers
Keith
August 7th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Thank you for the great plugin! The quotes are not rotating for me here. http://www.facefirstcreative.com/clientdev/steiger/
My jquery version is 1.4.4. I’m not getting any javascript errors, it just stays on the 1st quote. I’ve deactivated all other plug ins and it still didn’t rotate. Any advice?
Thanks in advance!
August 8th, 2011 at 9:41 am
@Rebecca: From looking at the source I see your jquery is jquery-1.3.1.min.js – forced by your theme Cubit – That’s the problem
August 10th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Hi, is there a way to add 100 quotes at once instead of one at a time, from a text file?
Regards
August 16th, 2011 at 4:44 am
Hi, did you answer @Keith’s question (#374) about possibly adding the option to choose the ID’s you want to use? That would allow us to have some quotes on one page and different quotes on another. That would really be great!
Thanks!
August 16th, 2011 at 7:37 am
thanks for this good addons.
my problem is: why replace some characters to “?” mark?
sample: “Bak?ms?z araç” is saving to “Bak?ms?z araç”
please fix this. regards
August 16th, 2011 at 8:21 am
sorry, your site encoded too replace some characters to ? mark. look at my previous message. i think i explain this.
August 22nd, 2011 at 4:38 am
First I am new so go easy. Second, if I activate the plugin and put the shortcode in the post it just says loading quotes.
It only works when I put it in as a widget but then I have a blank loading quotes at the footer area and the quotes do load in the post.
What am I doing wrong?
August 22nd, 2011 at 8:13 am
Great plug-in! thanks – going to use on my site
August 22nd, 2011 at 9:17 am
@Sandy: You can only have one instance on a page. Looks like it’s working ok on your site now so you’ve probably already figured it out.
August 23rd, 2011 at 5:28 am
Thanks for the reply but it only works if I put the widget in the footer and that shows blank and I also have it on each post inside the posts. If I take the widget away then the posts just showing “loading quotes”.
If you look at the bottom of the posts in the footer area you will see the blank one… but if that is not there nothing shows.
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:03 am
@Sandy: To troubleshoot, remove quote widget in footer and follow all steps in 369 above. This should help you identify the conflict.
August 23rd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Aidan,
I loaded your plugin on a site running WP 2.9.2 and I have added two testimonials and then put your shortcode in the HTML of the home page. The testimonial fades in nicely but it doesn’t rotate. Am I missing something obvious here? In my settings I have it set for 8 secs to rotate and 3 secs on the fade in/fade out. I don’t have any parameters in the shortcode, just the basic call to the plugin.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
August 23rd, 2011 at 5:08 pm
@Daniel: see 369 above. Appears you have an old version of jQuery. You can upgrade WP or install an older version of this plugin if you don’t want to upgrade.
August 25th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Hey Aidan,
would be possible to update answer 118? I want to have valid code on my website so I tried to fix it as Kenneth suggested but it seems the code has changed. I guess line echo “\n”; is now echo “setTimeout(\”quoteRotator.quotesInit()\”, 2000)\n”;
But I couldn’t find echo “”; …
Could you advise how to fix the problem with validation?
Many thanks
Thomas
August 29th, 2011 at 9:23 am
installed plugin, worked great…then suddenly got message on screen “loading quotes…” now can’t get widget or shortcodes to work.. it just hangs on this notice… any thoughts???? I changed no code or css anywhere…
August 29th, 2011 at 9:35 am
@Jeff: start with the troubleshooting steps listed below
August 29th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
why replace some characters to “?” mark? please answer this… for example: http://www.asanotomotiv.com main page
September 2nd, 2011 at 5:17 am
Great plugin! I would like to use it in a multi-lingual site (English and Dutch). Is there a way to do that? I am using the WPML plugins to manage the English and Dutch pages. Thanks for your help.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Hi –
Love this plugin but the ‘loading quotes…’ text stays on the page, even once the quotes are loaded. Is there a way that I can remove it?
Thanks
September 4th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
I have seen this asked a couple times but did not see answer.
Does this FlexiQuote work for multiproduct site?
Each blog post is a different product, therefore different testimony quote for each post.
FlexiQuote Will only work for one product site.
Is this correct?
September 5th, 2011 at 6:46 am
Hi, I love the plugin! Just one question: Is there a simple way of including some static text, possibly with a link, that appears underneath (or above) all quotes?
September 5th, 2011 at 9:37 am
@Carina: see 6 steps below
September 5th, 2011 at 9:37 am
@Mark: just what it says on the tin
September 5th, 2011 at 9:39 am
@Felix: not supported, but you could edit plugin files if you have any knowledge of coding
September 6th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Hey Aidan,
I just wonder if you find the answer on my question about problem with validation? This is great plugin but it is a big shame it doesn’t produce valid code… Is there any way how to fix it, please?
Many thanks for your reply
Thomas
September 6th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
@Thomas: Sorry, I’ve not had time to look into that yet. Will got to it in the future but a bit of a low priority at the moment.
September 7th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Hey Aidan,
thanks for your reply. Its shame to hear that valid code has low priority for program developer. I think it should be other way around … especially when fix would take few minutes only if you know how (see 118).
Anyway I’ll need to look somewhere else then … its a pity that such a great plugin has this defekt.
Thanks
T.
November 27th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
The does inserted on a page works fine and shows the Quote howver it does not rotate. Only the 1st Quote out of some 10 show up.
There is no javaerror or any other error shown.
Could you tell me what may be wrong.
Am using your latest download as well the the latest version in WP.
Look forward to your reply
November 28th, 2011 at 2:14 am
There a lot of problems if used as a widget.
I use it for testimonials on a clients website.
With no style used, it just looks like some plain text, and the authors name is just dropped on the end, it looks like $%^&.
With a style like “narrow-rounded” the widget sticks out of the widget area, and there are no options to change the width, not without manually changing the style.
And if you are already using a style then the widgets style should be removed.
It just looks very bad, so bad that it’s unusable as a widget.
This is how it looks http://changeispossible.ca/, but i might have deleted it by the time you check it out.
I checked the steps before posting and they don’t seem to apply.
But after i activated it i did get 2 errors, i can’t remember them, but they didn’t seem to affect the plugin.
I’m using WP 3.2.1, and the Graphene 1.5.5 theme (+4widgets) and no errors.
I don’t think any of the problems i have are because of the theme i’m using.
What i need is a width option in/for the widget
November 28th, 2011 at 8:26 am
@JoeGP: If you read the instructions, you will see the stylesheets provided are just EXAMPLES for you to adapt to your own website. If you set stylesheet to ‘none’, it will not have fixed width.
Bottom line, if you don’t like it don’t use it, it’s a free plugin, use something else or write your own.
November 28th, 2011 at 8:30 am
@Gregory: Did you follow the 6 troubleshooting steps? If so, what’s the results?
November 29th, 2011 at 2:04 am
Hello, I can’t get Quote Rotator work in multisite install. It works nice on main site, but I can’t add quotes on subsite admin. I’m using latest versions of everything. Is there still something I should know about this plugin?
November 29th, 2011 at 2:15 am
Found the solution: I did ‘Network deactivate’ and activated the plugin again on each site. Thank you for a nice plugin!
December 16th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
hello love the plugin i got a question can i have 1 2 3 quote into post A and 4 5 6 into post B
thank
December 18th, 2011 at 8:59 am
We love your plugin as it is easy to use and looks great. So thanks.
We were wondering if you could had a feature to put a quote on hold until you want it displayed again. You can edit a quote and delete a quote but being able to put a individual quote on hold would be good.
For example, we have added some Christmas quotes but don’t want these all year round. We also don’t want to delete them and have to add the same quotes everytime we want them on again.
December 25th, 2011 at 10:02 am
What are the options if the plugin doesn`t actually rotate?
I`m also looking for a way to make the author text colour different than the quote, as it`s being used as a widget with no stylesheet. The quote would stand out much more if there were different colours.
Close but no cigar. Thanks.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Seems like this plugin fights Widget Logic and/or Display Widget. I need this widget to appear on one page but when I put in the Widget Logic code and press save, the syntax I put in is wiped out. And Display Widget options don’t even come up.
Ideas?
January 7th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
How can I get my quotes to wrap to the next line and stay within my box.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:58 am
@julian: Not currently but I’m planning on adding this feature in near future as I will need it myself for an upcoming website.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:59 am
@The Cats: Good suggestion, I may add in future update.
January 11th, 2012 at 10:01 am
@Colin: Follow the troubleshooting steps. Author has id quoteauthor so you can easily style it.
January 11th, 2012 at 10:03 am
@Ben: not sure what your talking about
January 11th, 2012 at 10:04 am
@Molly: May just require some CSS styling tweaks. If overflowing the box, check and adjust box size to suit.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:32 am
I tried editing the PHP file per your instructions in #63 (to remove the “Loading Quotes…” message) but it’s still showing up. Opening the file quote-rotator.class.php in Dreamweaver, I note the two lines with “Loading Quotes…” are 327 and 375, not 169 and 189 specified in comment #63. Don’t know if that matters, and I keyword searched all the the PHP files from the plugin folders to find another instance of “Loading Quotes…” and could only find the two that you cited in quote-rotator.class.php. Flushed out the browser cache as well to be sure. Is there perhaps another location where the plugin is pulling the “Loading Quotes…” label? Or did I also checked, and the edited quote-rotator.class.php file that I FTP’d back has my change, but my site is still showing the default text.
January 21st, 2012 at 11:07 am
Please delete my prior post (#418) that is awaiting moderation. Figured it out. User FTP copy error at 2 a.m. Wrong folder. Doh! And tried a bunch of quote rotators…yours is the most flexible.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Hi. A bit of a problem regarding changing the “Loading Quotes…” tag Hope you can help. I am getting some kind of pushback if I make any change to the text running under the Headway theme framework. Works fine with a plain WP theme. The plugin kills the header graphic, and I get this error message when I go into the Headway Visual Editor:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/85/7158685/html/nasty/wp-content/plugins/flexi-quote-rotator/classes/quote-rotator.class.php:413) in /home/content/85/7158685/html/nasty/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866
Also, if I deactivate and then reactivate, I get this additional error messaging in the plugin install area:
The plugin generated 1 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.
Question: does your plugin write something to another file in the WP file collection?. I am suspecting that it does, and the issue is there is lack of agreement between the plugin PHP file that I edited per your instruction and the WP file that the plugin is talking to. Any ideas?
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 am
@JD: never encountered this before. I would suspect perhaps a typo when you edited the file. Try reinstalling the unaltered plugin to see if the problem goes away.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:35 am
Yes, when I copy the unedited version of the file it works just fine. Even if I just change one character of the “Loading Quotes…” it creates an error and prevent my header from displaying. The only wild card is I am using the HeadWay theme framework. I did use Dreamweaver to edit the PHP; wondering if that could possibly be entering in additional information when the file is saved. Maybe I will try a plain text editor next.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Update: I edited the PHP file with plain old Windows Notepad instead of Dreamweaver (CS5). Works just fine now. Go figure.
January 24th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Seems to have a conflict with DP Widget Plus plugin when I try to add as a widget. Get a fatal error: “Call to undefined method QuoteRotator::get_settings() in [the dp widgets php file]“. Any thoughts on how to fix this? [not a php guru]
January 24th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
@CW Sorry, I have no knowledge of DP Widget Plus.