JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin

Originally named “Joe’s Quotes”, this plugin shows your favorite random quotes along with a picture of the person saying the quote. Easily expandable to contain quotes from any person/character. Version 3 includes an options page and uses CSS for formatting.

Bite my collosal metal ass.
You know, when I was a girl, I always dreamed of being in a Broadway audience.

It can look many ways as you can change the formatting, I’m using it with the default settings here.

Note: Tested with WordPress versions up to and including 2.3

Install is easy.

  1. Download and expand jpf_quotes.zip.
  2. Copy the entire jpf_quotes folder to your WordPress plugins folder.
  3. Enable the plugin in your WordPress Plugins admin page.
  4. Choose how you’d like the plugin configured on the JPF Quotes configuration page in your WordPress Options admin page.
  5. Add <?php jpf_quotes(); ?> to your sidebar, or wherever you’d like the quotes to appear.

The default download includes the following files for the Simpson’s Quotes package:

  • Bart.gif
  • Burns.gif
  • Homer.gif
  • Lisa.gif
  • Marge.gif
  • Moe.gif
  • Ralph.gif
  • Simpsons.txt

If you don’t want Simpon’s quotes displayed, delete these files. Adding quotes is easy. Simply download one of the expanding list of quotes packages:

Expand the zip file and copy the files into the jpf_quotes folder. That’s all their is to it. If you’d like to make your own, simply create a text file with the name of character, then a tab, then the quote text. One quote per line. Then create a picture, GIF or JPG with the exact same name as the character name in the text file. See some of the available quotes packages as an example. If you create your own, consider submitting it here so others can benefit from your efforts as well. Just e-mail it to jpfieber@gmail.com.

Posted: 06 October 17
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50 Responses to “JPF Quotes WordPress Plugin”

  1. So Joe… » Joe's Quotes WordPress Plugin says:
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    October 19, 2006 at 1:34 am

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  4. EncGuano says:
    February 5, 2007 at 8:21 am

    So Joe…. ;)

    Is JPF Quotes 3.0 completely compatible with WordPress 2.1? Thanks for your help!

  5. Joe says:
    February 6, 2007 at 8:59 am

    I haven’t played with 2.1 yet, so I’m not certain. It sounds like most incompatibilities come from database calls, which my plugin doesn’t do, so I don’t foresee any compatibility issues. If you try it out, let me know how it goes!

  6. Joe says:
    February 6, 2007 at 11:59 am

    EncGuano has tested it on his blog and reports that it is working fine there. Thanks for trying it out!

  7. EncGuano says:
    February 6, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    Actually it´s just a test blog… but yes, JFP Quotes is working flawlessly on WP 2.1 (so far). ;)

  8. Phil Scoville says:
    February 27, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    I am trying to use this plugin but I can’t seem to with wp 2.1. I have tried to follow the instructions for either the widgets or just the regular plugin but I don’t seem to have any luck. It looks funny on the page. Check it out if you please.

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    March 3, 2007 at 4:24 pm

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  11. Free Thinker says:
    March 25, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    Working great with 2.1.2 so far. Couldn’t have asked for a better plugin for my style of blog.

  12. Phil says:
    March 26, 2007 at 10:39 am

    the plugin is working great with 2.1.2. Thanks.

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  14. Alan Kellogg says:
    April 6, 2007 at 4:12 am

    Spinoza being bashful, his quotes aren’t popping up.

    Matter of fact, neither are Thomas Paine’s, and Tom wasn’t exactly what you’d call shy.

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  16. KPeBiz.com says:
    June 29, 2007 at 9:56 am

    Great plug in, it would be great to make it like a widget, I am using a widget theme and it makes it easier to insert in.

    Just a thought… ;-)

  17. Phil Scoville says:
    July 8, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Is there anyway that I could know how many times the Seinfeld package has been downloaded?

    Thanks, is there a way that it can be pulled from the zip file on my site so that I can know how many times it gets downloaded?

    Phil Scoville

  18. John Turnbull says:
    July 8, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    The photo for the first name in the .txt file does not load. Whatever I plug into line 1 — that is, name plus tab stop plus quote — it makes no difference. The .gif file is not found. Everything else works fine, and thanks for the excellent work!

  19. Julian says:
    July 11, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    Hello Joe,

    I am looking for a widget or a plugin that enables me to randomly change the Blog tagline, which I use for a quote. Can you tell me where to look further?

    Many thanks,

    Julian

  20. Robert says:
    July 21, 2007 at 3:26 am

    Hi,
    Great plug-in. However, when I view it in IE, it stretches the bounding box down to the bottom of my sidebar.

    Any ideas how I can tweek the CSS so it doesn’t do this in IE. It looks great in other browsers.

    Thanks

  21. PurpleDragonFly says:
    July 30, 2007 at 8:59 am

    I love this little toy. Its been a great add-on to my site.

  22. Max Ruegnitz says:
    August 19, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    Eventhough the installation is very simple, my installation doesn’t seem to be working. After following the instructions above I get a ‘JPF Quotes’ unders ‘Options’ in the WordPress admin interface as expected however when I add to my sidebar.php file or the html of a page I get nothing in return. Am I missing something simple?

  23. Derek says:
    September 21, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    Thanks for this. Works well, but I can’t figure out where it puts the default CSS. It’s not in my stylesheet.

  24. Baby steps… « Boma360 says:
    September 27, 2007 at 10:10 pm

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  25. Scott-O-Rama says:
    October 23, 2007 at 12:18 am

    I love this plug-in. Thanks for developing it. I have a question though. I can’t figure out why sometimes it adds quotation marks around the quote, and sometimes it doesn’t. I went through and removed all the quotations marks from the text file it reads from thinking this would help me determine what the problem was, but it still bounces back and forth in displaying the quotation marks. Any ideas?

  26. Joe says:
    October 23, 2007 at 9:10 am

    The only place the quotes could come from is the quotes package file (the text file in the package), unless the code for the plugin were modified.

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  28. jeanpierre says:
    January 28, 2008 at 8:33 am

    Nice plugin…
    Is it possible to have many instance ? A way (simple) to duplicate the plugin 2 or 3 times ?

    thanks

  29. Joe says:
    January 28, 2008 at 11:06 am

    I hadn’t tried that before. I just tweaked the code a bit, and you can see above, I now have two calls to the function displayed. You can’t have different options for each, but you can at least call it multiple times. If you’re interested, drop me an e-mail at jpfieber@gmail.com and I’ll send you the code to test.

  30. Dave says:
    February 4, 2008 at 8:15 am

    Awesome Plugin…thanks…it adds a nice little touch to my Blog……

  31. Leyton Jay says:
    March 24, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Yoinked! For my site footer!

    Cheers!

  32. fede says:
    March 27, 2008 at 12:15 am

    Hi joe, Great plugin!! I have a question is there anyway to center the text? I tried changing to
    but no luck so far. thanks
    good luck

    fede

  33. Joe says:
    March 27, 2008 at 8:26 am

    @fede: You’ll need to turn off the ‘use default css’ option in the options page, then enter the following in your style sheet:

    .jpf_quotes {margin: 5px 0 5px 0; border: 1px solid #cccccc; height: 100%; overflow: auto;}
.jpf_quotes_pic {float: left; margin: 2px; text-align: center;}
.jpf_quotes_lbl {font-size: 7pt;}
.jpf_quotes_txt {font-size: 8pt; margin: 2px; text-align: center;}

  34. capac says:
    June 3, 2008 at 4:30 am

    Anyone who knows how to make the plugin work with WordPress 2.0.5?

  35. capac says:
    June 3, 2008 at 4:31 am

    Sorry, I mean: WordPress 2.5.1

  36. Joe says:
    June 3, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Should work fine, this blog is 2.5.1 and you can see it’s running as billed.

  37. capac says:
    June 5, 2008 at 7:18 am

    Thank you, Joe. Could you give me a clou – where exactly to put the in the Sidebar?

  38. capac says:
    June 5, 2008 at 7:19 am

    “”

  39. capac says:
    June 5, 2008 at 7:20 am

    The tag, I mean…

  40. James says:
    August 9, 2008 at 8:39 am

    It only supports GIF, you can change it to support JPG in the plugin file.

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    November 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm

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    Is it suposed to work on wordpress 3??

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