Motivated by Ronald’s ultimate wordpress plugin tutorial at devlounge, I decided that the best way to learn something is to use it in a live project. Armed with my laptop and multiple flasks of coffee, the marathon began on Friday night. My only experience with web-related development so far had been around 8–10 years ago as a kid when, just like everybody else at that time, I was fascinated by HTML and did a “read-through” of HTML 4.0. But I have always been a believer of the theory that a C programmer can program in any language quickly without having to go through the whole manuals. Thus that night bore fruit for me, and by 5:30 in the morning I had a working “Quote of The Day” plugin at my hand with all the features I wanted it to have in its first avatar. Did a bit of polishing last night, fixed a few bugs, and created a readme, and here it is, Mr. shantz-wp-qotd “1.0”, in all its glory, ready for general consumption.
Features at a glance:
Add quotes to all your posts automatically.
Widget support - Can also have a widget in the sidebar for quotes.
Customize and style your quotes with your own text and tags.
Multiple sources for quotes (paste in admin page, get from file implemented, fetch from web/rss soon to come)
Multiple patterns for quotes - Random Quote, Quote of the day (all posts display quote of the day), Quote of that day (all posts display quote for their own days)
Pattern for widget can be different
Customization for widget can be different
Add quotes to top or bottom of posts
Enable/Disable the quotes without deactivating the plugin
Coming Soon:
Fetch from web/RSS support
Custom template tag to add quote anywhere you want
Custom quote boundary decalarator tags/Multiline quote support (Right now, each quote has to be on a new line)
Quotes Categories
Pics support for quotes
Anything else you want
File selection
And more…