Saxey | .net

So, I’m developing my first WordPress plugin. It’s simply called “Quoty” because it brings in quotes from the site http://quoty.org. Once you install and activate the plugin you will be able to configure it to pull a random quote from the site http://quoty.orgbased on usernames or tag names, and display it on your blog.For version 1.0, I plan to have the following features:

• Admin interface to specify which username or which tag name to use
• Provide a template tag for inserting quotes into blog’s theme
• Have an example of the resulting random quote on the admin configuration screen

After the initial release of the plugin I plan to add the following additional features:

• Ability to display quote with a widget
• Ability to add multiple usernames or tag names to get a quote from
• Improve admin interface using ajax for adding/deleting authors/tag names
• Option to set max char length of quote
• Add button into toolbar (tiny mce) to make adding a quote into a post or page simple
• Possibility of specifying quotes by username AND tagname (don’t think it’s possible with current soap api functionality of quoty.org)

I hope to release the initial version very soon (I’m contemplating “widgetizing” the plugin for the initial release since I think it’s pretty necessary for most non-techies). Hopefully I can get some good user feedback to improve the plugin beyond what I already have planned.

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