Brian H. Marston

<p>To add a quote, go to Quotes->Add New. Enter the citation (source or author) for the quote and the quote itself. You can use HTML in both the citation and the quote. For styling purposes, the post format defaults to “Quote.”</p>
<p>To add the widget to a sidebar, go to Appearance->Widgets and drag the Quote widget to the sidebar. Set the “Title” to the text you want to be displayed above the random quote in the sidebar.</p>
<p>The HTML displayed by the widget looks like this:</p>
<pre><code><div class="quote">
    “the_quote”
</div>
<div class="citation">
    &mdash;the_citation
</div>
<div class="all-quotes">
    [<a href="quote_archive_url">View All</a>]
</div>
</code></pre>


BHM Random Quote

Display a random quote from your collection in a sidebar using a widget

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<p><strong>D11 Random Quote Loader</strong> adds a classic WordPress widget that pulls a random quote from a custom database table each time a page loads.</p>
<p>Quotes are managed entirely from within your WordPress dashboard, and the plugin ships with three sample quotes so it works immediately after activation.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Displays a random quote on every page load using an efficient COUNT + OFFSET strategy (not ORDER BY RAND())</li>
<li>Full admin panel — add, edit, and delete quotes without touching code</li>
<li>CSV Export — download all your quotes as a spreadsheet-compatible .csv file</li>
<li>CSV Import — bulk-upload quotes with automatic encoding detection (UTF-8 and Windows-1252 / Excel), BOM stripping, per-row validation, and a 5,000-row safety limit</li>
<li>Clean, semantic HTML output using blockquote, p, and cite elements — easy to style with your theme’s CSS</li>
<li>Fully internationalised — every string is ready for translation via the d11-random-quote-loader text domain</li>
<li>Safe uninstall — drops the custom table only when the plugin’s own signature column is detected</li>
<li>Security hardened — nonces on every form, current_user_can() capability checks, full output escaping, and wp_rand() throughout</li>
<li>[d11rql_random_quote] shortcode — insert a random quote into any post, page, or text widget</li>
<li>Quote categories — tag quotes and display different sets on different pages or sidebars</li>
</ul>


D11 Random Quote Loader

Display a random quote from your own database on every page load, with a full admin panel for managing quotes and CSV import/export.

BHM Random Quote vs D11 Random Quote Loader