I love reading quotes but as of now all of them are in my emails, bookmarks, notepads etc but now since I have a place to share, I think I will slowly dig them from various places and put it here on my blog.
For this purpose, I wanted to create a page where in all the quotes should be displayed and a random quote selected from a set of available quotes on the home page (or a place I choose). There is good collection of all types of plugins at WordPress Plugin Database. One can directly reach to plugins related to Quotes (Classified as Features -> Randomness by Plugin) by clicking here. There is also an another source where available plugins for WordPress are hosted. Click Here to visit the page
I read about quite a few quotes plugin here and I am listing down few of them which I found interesting …
- Random Quote Plugin
- DonkieQuote
- Yet Another Random Quote
- Yakuter Random Quote Plugin
All the above mentioned plugins maintain a database where quotes are stored and selected for random display. There is another set of quotes plugin which pulls the quote from another site. Couple of them mentioned below …
- Quotation Plugin
- The Quotations
For myself, I have selected the Random Quote Plugin since using this plugin I could create a WordPress page and put the in order to display all the quotes in one page along with the feature of displaying the random quotes of course.
I am already using this plugin and you can see the page I created for displaying all the quotes available in Quotes page. Not much of collection though at this point of time but page has been created :-D. All these plugins looks great and will meet the basic requirement of displaying a random quote but I guess I have to create another quotes plugin for myself since I would like to organize the quotes in various quotes categories which these plugins don’t. I am not sure whether this is a reasonable requirement of mine but I would like to do it anyway. At least for this reason, I will learn how to write plugins for WordPress. 