Anthony Bubel

The Just a Quote Widget allows you to easily configure a quote to appear in your blog’s sidebar. Simply enter the title, quote, and source into the included input fields, and you’re done. For ease of use, there is quote-like formatting already built into the widget; if you do, however, wish to style it yourself (via your theme’s stylesheet), you’re more than welcome. Simply select the “Style the quote yourself?” option, and the default formatting will be deactivated, allowing you to go CSS-crazy in your theme’s stylesheet.
For those CSS bandits styling the widget themselves, use the .just-a-quote (for the quote text) and .just-a-quote-source (for the source text) classes in your theme’s stylesheet.
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Just a Quote Widget

Easily display any quote from any source in your sidebar with some basic 'quote-like' formatting (and the option to style it yourself).

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D11 Random Quote Loader adds a classic WordPress widget that pulls a random quote from a custom database table each time a page loads.
Quotes are managed entirely from within your WordPress dashboard, and the plugin ships with three sample quotes so it works immediately after activation.
Features:
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<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>
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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.

Just a Quote Widget vs D11 Random Quote Loader