Comments on: New Plugin - Random Quotes http://www.benched42.net/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/ Who lied and told you life would EVER be fair? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:49:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rob http://www.benched42.net/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20122 Rob Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:01:40 +0000 http://www.benched42.net/blog/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20122 Works really well, Bill. One note about stylesheets. IMHO, from a design point of view, I prefer to control my own CSS editing in my theme's style.css as opposed to keeping the styling in the plugin file. Especially if the user updates the plugin version, any customization he makes to the styles in the plugin file will be lost. Unless there's a way of overriding the styles in the plugin? Works really well, Bill. One note about stylesheets. IMHO, from a design point of view, I prefer to control my own CSS editing in my theme’s style.css as opposed to keeping the styling in the plugin file. Especially if the user updates the plugin version, any customization he makes to the styles in the plugin file will be lost.

Unless there’s a way of overriding the styles in the plugin?

]]> By: BillH http://www.benched42.net/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20121 BillH Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:30:41 +0000 http://www.benched42.net/blog/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20121 Yes, I did change the database name. I changed other things in the way the table was accessed so that the plugin will be WP 2.1 compliant for database names; the original plugin will NOT be. I believe the bug in the all_quotes tag is now resolved. There was an issue with blank records and how it skipped over them. I also changed the tag so it now does not output the quotation marks. It's something I forgot to change in the button code but changed in the rest of the code and in the docs. You can download the new version from my wiki. Yes, I did change the database name. I changed other things in the way the table was accessed so that the plugin will be WP 2.1 compliant for database names; the original plugin will NOT be.

I believe the bug in the all_quotes tag is now resolved. There was an issue with blank records and how it skipped over them.

I also changed the tag so it now does not output the quotation marks. It’s something I forgot to change in the button code but changed in the rest of the code and in the docs.

You can download the new version from my wiki.

]]> By: Rob http://www.benched42.net/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20112 Rob Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:36:32 +0000 http://www.benched42.net/blog/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20112 Oh also, the nifty quick tag is inserting: [[quote=""]] with the quotation marks. This doesn't parse right. Your readme is correct with the quote marks absent. Awesome stuff, man. Oh also, the nifty quick tag is inserting:

[[quote=""]]

with the quotation marks. This doesn’t parse right. Your readme is correct with the quote marks absent.

Awesome stuff, man.

]]> By: Rob http://www.benched42.net/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20111 Rob Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:33:28 +0000 http://www.benched42.net/blog/2006/12/12/new-plugin-random-quotes/#comment-20111 You rock, Bill! Nice work. Some notes: Are your database table names different than WP-Quotes? After disabling that plugin and enabling yours, none of my older quotes show up in your plugin's admin area. Not a huge deal, but would be sweet if there was a way to import them. I can always snoop around the tables and transfer them with phpMyAdmin. There seems to be a bug with the [[all_quotes]] code where it only displays n-2 of n quotes. For instance, I now have 7 quotes in my database, but only 5 show up in the all quotes page. This seems to be true as I add more quotes. You rock, Bill! Nice work. Some notes:

Are your database table names different than WP-Quotes? After disabling that plugin and enabling yours, none of my older quotes show up in your plugin’s admin area. Not a huge deal, but would be sweet if there was a way to import them. I can always snoop around the tables and transfer them with phpMyAdmin.

There seems to be a bug with the [[all_quotes]] code where it only displays n-2 of n quotes. For instance, I now have 7 quotes in my database, but only 5 show up in the all quotes page. This seems to be true as I add more quotes.

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