Xavi Ivars

XV Random Quotes helps you collect and display random quotes everywhere on your WordPress site. Built with modern WordPress standards using Custom Post Types, Gutenberg blocks, and the REST API.
🎯 Modern WordPress Integration
<ul>
<li>Custom Post Type – Quotes are managed as native WordPress posts with full revision history</li>
<li>Gutenberg Blocks – Three dedicated blocks: Random Quote, Specific Quote, and List Quotes</li>
<li>REST API – Access quotes programmatically for headless WordPress and custom integrations</li>
<li>Taxonomy Support – Organize quotes with categories and authors (with URL support)</li>
<li>Block Editor – Full support with dedicated meta boxes for quote content and source</li>
</ul>
✨ Key Features
<ul>
<li>Multiple Display Methods – Widgets, shortcodes, template tags, and Gutenberg blocks</li>
<li>AJAX-Powered Widgets – Automatic quote rotation without page reload (configurable timer)</li>
<li>Category Filtering – Display quotes from specific categories or all quotes</li>
<li>Author Management – Track quote authors with optional URL links</li>
<li>Flexible Ordering – Random or sequential quote display</li>
<li>Native Styling Toggle – Use plugin’s default styling or your theme’s styles</li>
<li>Complete Backward Compatibility – All legacy shortcodes and template tags still work</li>
</ul>
📦 Display Options
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg Blocks:
<ul>
<li>Random Quote Block – Display one or more random quotes</li>
<li>Specific Quote Block – Show a particular quote by ID</li>
<li>List Quotes Block – Paginated list of quotes with filtering</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Widgets: Sidebar widget with AJAX refresh and category filtering</li>
<li>Shortcodes: <code>[stray-random]</code>, <code>[stray-id]</code>, <code>[stray-all]</code> for posts and pages</li>
<li>Template Tags: <code>stray_random_quote()</code>, <code>stray_a_quote()</code> for theme integration</li>
<li>REST API: <code>/wp-json/xv-random-quotes/v1/quote/random</code> for custom integrations</li>
</ul>
🔄 Automatic Migration
Upgrading from v1.x? The plugin automatically detects the need of migrating your existing quotes to the new Custom Post Type system. The migration is always manual to prevent race conditions and duplicate imports. When the plugin is activated or updated, an admin notice prompts the user to start the migration via a button. The migration then processes quotes in batches via AJAX.
🎨 Customization
<ul>
<li>Customize HTML wrappers (before/after quote, author, source)</li>
<li>Control author and source link formatting</li>
<li>AJAX loading messages and animations</li>
<li>Native WordPress styling or custom CSS</li>
</ul>
See <a href="https://github.com/xavivars/xv-random-quotes/blob/main/RELEASE_NOTES.md" rel="nofollow ugc">RELEASE_NOTES.md</a> for complete v2.0 features and migration guide.
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>For main development of Stray Quotes, <a href="http://unalignedcode.wordpress.com/my-wordpress-plugins/stray-random-quotes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ico</a></li>
<li>For Multi-widget functionality, <a href="http://wp.gdragon.info/2008/07/06/create-multi-instances-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">Millian’s tutorial</a></li>
<li>For help in developing user-end AJAX functionality, <a href="http://www.matrixagents.org" rel="nofollow ugc">AgentSmith</a></li>
<li>For search functionality and bugfixing, <a href="http://www.zeyalabs.ch/posts/2010/stray-quotes-z/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sergey Sirotkin</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Localization</h3>
<ul>
<li>German, thanks to Markus Griesbach</li>
<li>Chinese, thanks to WGMking</li>
<li>Croatian, thanks to <a href="http://www.atrium.hr/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rajic</a></li>
<li>Danish, thanks to <a href="http://wordpress.blogos.dk/" rel="nofollow ugc">Georg</a></li>
</ul>
Actually, these translations are not updated to the latest version. 
I am looking for new localizers, all languages welcome!
Please note: the best way to submit new or updated translations is to send me a direct link to the localization files in <a href="http://xavi.ivars.me/contacta/" rel="nofollow ugc">the contact page</a> of my website. This way the files are made available to the users sooner, and without waiting for a new release.
Please note: If you want to create a localized copy of XV Random Quotes, consider skipping the help page and translate the rest. This will save you quite some time. The help page has a lot of text.
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
None currently reported for v2.0. If you find an issue, please report it on <a href="https://github.com/xavivars/xv-random-quotes/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

XV Random Quotes

Display and rotate quotes anywhere on your WordPress site. Fully integrated with WordPress Custom Post Types, Gutenberg blocks, and REST API.

mgiulio

This plugin adds a new custom post type to manage and publish your favorite quotes with WordPress.
Quick features summary:
<ul>
<li>Enter the quote content in a multiline editor</li>
<li>Optionally assign an author to a quote, with autocompletion for already existent authors</li>
<li>Optionally assign multiple hierarchical categories to the quote</li>
<li>Optionally assign one or more custom fields: date, where, link, …</li>
<li>Autogeneration of quote titles</li>
<li>Quickly browse through your quotes with author and/or category filters and full text search</li>
<li>Import/Export of quotes between WordPress installations</li>
<li>Publish quotes on the front end with widgets, shortcodes and template tags</li>
<li>Restrict or allow access to the quotes and the relative operations in admin with fine grained access control </li>
<li>Cleanup on uninstall</li>
</ul>
Manage the quotes
Start managing your quotes accessing the new top menu ‘Quotes’:
In the quote editor enter the quote content and optionally, its author(if you have already added it before just type a part of its name to get an autocompletion) and 
one or more (hierarchical) categories. 
It is possible to define a title for the quotes, mainly used in the quote listing; if it is not provided it will be autogenerated. 
It is also possible to define some custom fields, for example to assign further informations about the quote, such as a date, a link, a place, …
The authors are implemented with a custom taxonomy, so from the Quotes/Authors page it is possible to manage them with the standard WP interface.
From the Quotes/All quotes page there is the standard post list table WP user interface to browse through the quotes. 
There is the full text search and two filters for the author and/or the category.
Restrict or allow access to the quotes and the relative operations in admin with fine grained access control
The plugin defines and assigns at installation time the following primitive capabilities to the ‘administrator’ role:
Category custom taxonomy:
<ul>
<li>‘manage_quote_categories’</li>
<li>‘edit_quote_categories’</li>
<li>‘delete_quote_categories’</li>
<li>‘assign_quote_categories’</li>
</ul>
Author custom taxonomy:
<ul>
<li>‘manage_quote_authors’</li>
<li>‘edit_quote_authors’</li>
<li>‘delete_quote_authors’</li>
<li>‘assign_quote_authors’</li>
</ul>
Quote custom post type:
<ul>
<li>‘edit_quotes’</li>
<li>‘edit_others_quotes’</li>
<li>‘publish_quotes’</li>
<li>‘read_private_quotes’</li>
<li>‘read’</li>
<li>‘delete_quotes’</li>
<li>‘delete_private_quotes’</li>
<li>‘delete_published_quotes’</li>
<li>‘delete_others_quotes’</li>
<li>‘edit_private_quotes’</li>
<li>‘edit_published_quotes’</li>
</ul>
Their names should be self-explanatory.
To customize the access control it is sufficient to grant/revoke such caps with a role editing plugin, for example <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/" rel="ugc">User Role Editor</a>.
Import/Export
To copy all the quotes from a WordPress instance to another just use the related tools provided by WordPress, accessible from the Tools menu.
Publish the quotes
Quotes can be published on the front end with three methods: widgets, shortcodes and template tags.
Widgets
The Selected Quote and the Random Quote widgets can be used to to display one single quote in the widget areas provided by the used theme.
The Selected Quote widget allows to display a specific quote. Just select it with the control that lists all quotes by their titles.
The random quote displayed by the homonymous widget can be optionally limited to the quotes by an author and/or a category using the provided controls.
Shortcodes
Shortcodes can be used to display quotes in posts and pages.
To display a quote in a post or page use the [quote] shortcode passing it the ID of the quote. 
Quote IDs can be easily read from the Quotes/All Quotes page, hovering with the mouse on the relevant row of the quotes list table. 
So, to display in a post a quote whose ID is 181 just enter [quote id=”181] in the post content editor.
To display a random quote from all the quotes or only from a category and/or author there is the [rnd_quote] shortcode. 
Category and author, when provided, must be identified by their name. 
Example:
[rnd_quote] -> random quote 
[rnd_quote author=”Oscar Wilde”] -> a random quote from the author ‘Oscar Wilde’ 
[rnd_quote category=”Art”] -> a random quote from the ‘Art’ category 
[rnd_quote category=”Art” author=”Pablo Picasso”] -> a random quote in the ‘Art’ category and by the ‘Pablo Picasso’ author
Template tags
If you prefer to modify the theme templates, two template tags are available that mimic the behaviour of the widgets and shortcodes.
<ul>
<li>mg_qt_get_quote($id) gets a single quote, specified by its ID</li>
<li>mg_qt_get_rnd_quote($category = null, $author = null) Pick one random quote, optionally from the category and/or the author specified(by they names)</li>
</ul>
These two functions return a string with the HTML markup for the picked quote; mg_qt_quote($id) and mg_qt_rnd_quote($category = null, $author = null) 
instead directly output the markup.
Quote markup customization
By default the markup generated for a quote is something like this:
<pre><code><blockquote class="mg_qt_quote">
 WordPress puts food on my table
 <footer class="meta">
 <cite class="author">Mark Jaquith</cite>
 </footer>
</blockquote>
</code></pre>
To modify this template the ‘mg_qt_quote_markup’ filter is available. It it invoked with two parameters:
<ol>
<li>The generated html</li>
<li>An associative array with the quote data. The available keys are: ‘content’, ‘author’, ‘title’, ‘id’.</li>
</ol>
<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/119415827596386237/" rel="nofollow ugc">Some additional info</a>.
Source Code
The plugin source code is also availabe on <a href="https://github.com/mgiulio/mg-quotes" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

mg Quotes

Manage and publish your favorite quotes with WordPress

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