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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, snumb130
Donate link: http://sww.co.nz/payments/
Tags: quotes, testimonies, random quotes, random, rotating, quotation, plugin, shortcode, template
Requires at least: 2.1
Tested up to: 2.7
Stable tag: 0.1.3
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.
If updating plugin please deactivate plugin and reactivate after uploading. You might have to enter the widget options after upgrading.
Usage:
- 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 duration in seconds, optional}"]
e.g.1:[quoteRotator]
e.g.2:[quoteRotator title="Testimonials" delay="8" fade="4"]- Insert a PHP snippet in template:
<?php echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode({optional title}, {delay in seconds, optional}, {fade duration in seconds, optional});?>
e.g.1:<?php echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode(); ?>
e.g.2:<?php echo $quoteRotator->getQuoteCode("Testimonials", 8, 4); ?>
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 0.1.3 (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.