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Quartz Plugin<\/a> lets you show random quotes\/tips\/links\/pictures\/something else to visitors<\/strong>. These quotes can be added from the admin side. You can add these one by one – or you can bulk import the stuff from a text file.<\/p>\n For those of you who are not in the know, this is the Plugin Week. Actually, this is the final day of the plugin week. In Plugin week, I release a new WordPress Plugin each day, every day for one week. This is the fifth plugin in that series. The plugins released so far are…<\/p>\n Note 1:<\/strong> Quartz is a beta plugin(as are most of the plugins released in the Plugin Week) – so watch out for bugs. And trust me, there will be a lot of them.<\/p>\n Note 2:<\/strong> I would recommend that you don’t install Quartz right now. It has not yet been accepted into the WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>. You can install it using the zip file I provide below – but then there will be some problems with auto updating of the plugin. Its better to wait until WordPress accepts the plugin before installing it<\/strong>. I’ll update this section when that happens. UPDATE:<\/strong> WordPress have accepted Quartz – feel free to install it now.<\/p>\n The most apparent use of the plugin is to show random quotes to your visitors<\/strong>. Something like the famous Hello Dolly plugin – but for the client side. It also useful for showing small tips – say you are running a linux blog<\/a>. You can insert useful linux commands<\/a> with a small description into the quotes database – and the visitors will see random linux commands when they visit a new page. You can even upload image and add that to the database – users will see the a random image on each visit.<\/p>\n After installing the plugin, go to the Quartz Management page(Manage > Manage Quote). Now you can create new quotes.<\/p>\n A better and easier way to do this is to use the bulk import method<\/strong>. You can use that to import a text file full of quotes into the database. Each line in the text file must have a quote in it. An example is the Celebrity Quotes File<\/a>. You can import that file by entering the value ‘http:\/\/binnyva.com\/pro\/dos\/boot_booster\/quotes\/celebrity.txt’ in the ‘Remote Text File’ field.<\/p>\n After the quotes are ready, you have to modify the template code a bit. Go to the location in the template where you want to show the quote and add the code<\/strong>…<\/p>\n This function can take two arguments…<\/p>\n If you are trying to insert the quotes into the sidebar, this might be the way(might be different depending on your themes code)…<\/p>\n You will see it running in my WordPress Demo Blog<\/a> – look at the sidebar under the heading ‘Random Quips’. It don’t look all that refined – but that’s the themes fault. And I was too lazy to fix the theme \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n If you have any suggestions or notice any problems with the plugin, post it in the Quartz forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n This should be the last plugin of my Plugin Week – but since you have been such a wonderful audience, I’ll throw in one more – as a bonus. It will be released tomorrow<\/strong>. Until then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Installation<\/h2>\n
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![\"Quartz](\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quartz_manage-1-1.png\" "\\"Quartz")
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Examples<\/h3>\n
<?php quartz_show(3, '<br \/>') ?><\/code><\/pre>\n<li><h2>Random Quip<\/h2>\n\t<ul>\n\t<li><?php if(function_exists('quartz_show')) quartz_show(2, '<\/li><li>') ?><\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/code><\/pre>\nSee it in Action<\/h2>\n
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