Comments on: Flexi quote rotator

By: Aidan

Aidan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:15:48 +0000

@Jennifer: If you send me a link to a page where you’ve set it up, I’ll take a look.

By: Jennifer Starkman

Jennifer Starkman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:05:04 +0000

Still waiting on an answer for my question back in December. Tried disabling other plugins and still no luck with the shortcode. Any suggestions?

By: Bob s

Bob s — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:06:34 +0000

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

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:58:51 +0000

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.

By: zentode

zentode — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:17:19 +0000

Sorry folks, cannot post the code here… Just wont work…

By: zentode

zentode — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:16:49 +0000

[code]
getQuoteCode("", 30, 4); ?>
[/code]

By: zentode

zentode — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:15:26 +0000

Sorry, the original comment was stripped of code. The other example showed up but, don’t forget your starting and ending div tag format…
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By: zentode

zentode — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:11:18 +0000

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.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:24:50 +0000

I’m having trouble with this plugin conflicting with another. (Featured Content Gallery)

Is it possible to have both?

By: Aidan

Aidan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:56:10 +0000

@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.

By: Roseann

Roseann — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:35:19 +0000

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

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:27:30 +0000

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. :)

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:14:13 +0000

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.

By: Dann

Dann — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:17:52 +0000

Nice plugin. Works brilliant. Any work arounds to get IE do the fading in as nice as in FF?

By: Jennifer Starkman

Jennifer Starkman — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:04:52 +0000

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.

By: J Starkman

J Starkman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:24:32 +0000

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. :-)

By: J Starkman

J Starkman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:19:54 +0000

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?

By: Cas

Cas — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:56:26 +0000

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.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:57:01 +0000

@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.

By: Cas

Cas — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:07:21 +0000

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.