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August 4th 2007. Stray Random Quotes

Stray Random Quotes helps you collect and display random quotes on your blog. It comes with a easy to use management tool, a option page and a "widget". The quotes can be recorded with source, author and optional google links, then added to the blog with a widget, customizing your sidebar, or spewed all onto a given page.

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» Stray Random Quotes 1.6.2
~ 1118 new downloads since August 4th, 2007

Note: the latest version of the plugin can always also be downloaded from the Wordpress Extend.

Installation & Usage

1. Upload the content of stray-quotes.zip to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Check out the options in "Settings" > "Stray Random Quotes" in the admin menu
4. Check out the management in "Manage" > "Quotes" in the admin menu
5. If you use widgets to customize the sidebar of your blog, Stray Random Quotes does come with a widget.
Just check "Design" > "Widgets" in the admin menu.
6. If you don't use the widget function, or you want random quotes to appear elsewhere other than the sidebar, use this in your theme: <?php if (function_exists('stray_random_quote')) stray_random_quote(); ?>.
7. To add a given quote instead of a random one use the following: <?php if (function_exists('stray_a_quote')) stray_a_quote(id);?>, where id is the id number of the quote as it appears on the management page.
8. To insert a random quote inside a post or a page, just write in the editor A tram arrived. It had been washed during the night. The bulbs that illuminated it were sad like the lights that one forgets to turn off before falling asleep. -- Emanuel Bove (Wordpress 2.5+ only).
9. To insert a given quote inside a post or a page, just write in the editor (Wordpress 2.5+ only), where xx is the id number of the quote as it appears on the management page.
10. To insert a list of all the quotes in a post or a page, just write in the editor If someone thinks you're great, it's not really you they think is great. And if they do a hatchet job on you, it's not really you. So the best thing to do is to protect yourself. Put on a moustache and sunglasses and stripes in your tie. Shave your head, change your name - and then keep the rest of you off the side -- Tom Waits When the soul of a man is born in this country, there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. -- James Joyce Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for -- Mark Twain There is an indifference that is more helpful than your blabbering about being humane, as the right hand pets some of us like Mother Teresa, and the left hand swings the sword of the tribunal against others. There is no one less open to suffering than you official humanitarians. Marsbodies that appear as the protectors of human rights. -- Peter Handke Life is not ugly nor beautiful, but it is original -- Italo Svevo My compassion has been nothing but compassion for myself, for the child I used to be - in the sense that the sight of a humiliated man reminded me the child who let anyone mortify him without complaining. Witness of a humiliation: where the witness feels exposed too. -- Peter Handke It is known that Freedom is indivisible. It is needed by good ones and bad ones. And even more by regular people. Like us. You can't give Freedom only to heroes. Just like you can't give a chance to get married only to Burt Reynolds. -- Sergei Dovlatov Books are made not like children but like pyramids, and they're just as useless! and they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them. -- Gustave Flaubert Admit that you're living in a country entirely furnished by the previous generations: that your opinions were hired, rented were the images of your world. -- Ingeborg Bachmann There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. -- Pablo Neruda Beauty exists only if I need it. -- Peter Handke A tram arrived. It had been washed during the night. The bulbs that illuminated it were sad like the lights that one forgets to turn off before falling asleep. -- Emanuel Bove I have a brain for everything -- Emanuel Carnevali This is the city self, looking from window to lighted / window / When the squares and checks of faintly yellow light / Shine at night, upon a huge dim board and slab-like tombs, / Hiding many lives. It is the city consciousness / Which sees and says: more: more and more: always more. -- Delmore Schwartz One has to believe oneself loved, to believe oneself unfaithful -- Racine Information is not knowledge. -- Frank Zappa( Wordpress 2.5+ only). If you use an earlier version of Wordpress, you can still use  (Wordpress 2.3- only)..

Screenshots

Your quotes are displayed in a management page, where from they can be edited or deleted, and where new quotes can be added.

The option page offers many options to customize the apperance of the quotes.

A random quote appears in the sidebar as one of the widgets.

Changelog

* 1.6.2 Fixed a compatibility issue with WP 2.6 which caused the available themes to not be displayed (thanks to all the users of Stray Random Quotes who pointed this bug out!). Also updated the layout of the option and manage pages to make them more consistent with the general design of WP.
* 1.6.1 Fixed the fact that the plugin didn't really considered wordpress 2.3.x users. Now the compatibility is assured, although WP 2.3 cannot use the shortcodes (see 'installation'). Thanks to gnr for pointing the bug out! I also fixed a pretty significant bug in the first time run of the plugin, where it didn't insert a sample quote although a message said it did, and I fixed the html code of the management page, it was messed up.
* 1.6 Major update (hence the slight jump forward in numbering): First of all, it takes advantage of the new Wordpress 2.5 shortcuts API by adding three different shortcuts to easily insert quotes inside your posts. In addition, it gives you the option to link author and source of your quotes to Wikipedia (not only to Google anymore) in all the major languages. Talking about language, this plugin is now ready for translations so come forward if you're willing to translate it in your own language. Only english and italian are available so far. This version contains a bunch of minor fixes and code rewriting, and also a few new names for its functions (you shouldn't notice any difference, but check out the installation instructions).
* 1.53 Hopefully fixed a little mishap with the code that caused the "updated table" message to persist. Also a link that didn't work should be fixed. Thanks to c for pointing this bugs out. Also, I changed the name of the plugin to make it more to the point.
* 1.52 Finally managed to use "edit" and "delete" links instead of buttons in the list of quotes. Great personal achievement since I was never able to make this simple thing work. More minor fixes.
* 1.51 Minor fixes.
* 1.50 Stray Quotes refurbished in order to work under Wordpress 2.5. Apparently it now does.
* 1.48 Corrected a typo that caused the plugin to throw a fatal error when activated. Usual messing up, no comment. While I was there I adjusted the way the plugin updates and creates the new table. It should work more cleverly now (nothing noticeable though).
* 1.47 This is a minor update to the general layout of the option and management pages. Hoping everything is more readable and usable now. Also I corrected the function where the "add new" form would display the content of the last inserted quote. Now the form does not display anything. Let me know if you don't think this way it is better. Few minor potential bugs hopefully corrected as well. Please be aware that the plugin now comes with five files (three .php, one .css and one .htm) instead than a single .php (which was getting too big and cumbersome to edit). So after you upload the folder with the new files, remember to delete the single file leftover by the old version.
* 1.46 I am really but once again I must update this plugin. Few slipping lines and a inattentive copy and paste caused an atrocious bug in the last version. Instead of editing old quotes it added them as new ones. Should be fixed now. It won't happen again for at least... a while now -- I promise.
* 1.45 Sorry for the many updates. It's because now I have the time. Anyway this version fixes the general functionality of the plugin where it would do certain crucial things (like updating the table to a new version) only if the management page was opened. Now it does what it has to do no matter what page is opened or not opened. I can't believe it I haven't solved this before, but this is how it goes.
* 1.44 As requested, a new field has been added to management page. It is now possible to specify the source of the quote and, in the option page, the relative optional formatting elements. Few potential bugs fixed.
* 1.43 Added a new option to set the default visibility for new quotes. In the options page.
* 1.42 with this update Stray Quotes should discriminate more intelligently the elements that can be added to both the sidebar and the quotes page, so that the page isn't filled with non pertinent formatting. More details on the options page itself.
* 1.41 corrected a general malfunction in the widget title, where it didn't handle unicode characters and disappeared from the sidebar or the options unexpectedly. Now everything should work. Thanks to tiosolid who addressed the bug. This is a fix version with no new features, but updating is strongly recommended.
* 1.4 first release. Numbering follows version number of the "Random Quotes" zombierobot.com/wp-quotes plugin from which my plugin takes its first steps.

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