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By: Master Gate » ארכיון הבלוג » פלאגין Random Quote

Master Gate » ארכיון הבלוג » פלאגין Random Quote — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:55:05 +0000

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By: Corey Dutson

Corey Dutson — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:32:42 +0000

Well rebby, what you are trying to make and what I am providing are pretty much the same. The difference between them is that you require a text file on the server, and I use the database.

By: rebby

rebby — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:52:03 +0000

oh wow you are not allowed code in ur comment.. send me a msg ill send u the code..

By: rebby

rebby — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:50:46 +0000

save this as quote.php
and just put this anywhere in your php page

but make sure u have quote.txt file which contain quote that u want to display . just enter for new line of quote..

but i need help to make this wordpress plugin

By: Corey Dutson

Corey Dutson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:39:25 +0000

@Simon – Thanks for telling me about the typo, that’s been fixed!

As for it being simple, that is what I was going for :P I admit that I had thought about having them be individual entries in the database, but a few things stopped me. 1) I’m still new to plugins, and making my own table to do things is still a mystery to me. 2) The explode() command in php is fairly fast in itself. I admit that I haven’t really done stress testing to see how well it would handle thousands of quotes, but at the same time I never really envisioned thousands of quotes being put into it.

Something for me to think about to be sure! Thanks again.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:20:01 +0000

Oh and on a slightly related note, your plug-in works fine under 2.7. Oh and the link to this page from your plugin is broken, it sends people to: “/owrdpress-plugins/randomquoter” rather than “/wordpress-plugins/randomquotr/”

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:10:13 +0000

I must say that this is the first extremely simple quote plug-in for WordPress. I can’t remember why I chose it, but it is worth at least a four out of five for simple quality. Only thing I don’t like about it, is that it is quite a bit too simple, I like the simple template integration but was expecting something a little different from the admin.

Having all the quotes in one big text box separated only by new lines makes it very difficult to edit if needed. I would have expected single quote input and then each quote being a separate database entry similar to the way wordpress organises links.

With that said I have yet to find a need to edit a quote, while there is no noticeable slow-down with just a hundred or so quotes in the text box, I am slightly worried about when/if it gets into the thousands, having not looked at the code yet I can’t comment on the optimisation but getting a random entry from a mysql table must surely be less tiresome for the server than having to load a bulk of quotes, seperate by new-line and then picking a random one from I quess that array.

All in all though this is a very useful plugin and I give thanks to you for saving me the time having to write one myself. I shall be in touch if I make any modifications which would be useful to anyone else.