As I take from the community, I like to give as well. I believe that if we all contribute, both in concept and design, that we can truly help make some of the good web applications out there even better. Such is the evolution of the internet.

My feedback for StrayQuotes extension for the WordPress Content Management System.

For those who may not know, StrayQuotes is an awesome quote management and showcasing plug-in for your favorite quotes and phrases. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stray-quotes/

The following is my message and suggestion to the author. We will see if he responds or implements any of these suggestions.

The Suggestion

First of all I want to thank you for your plug-in, which is superb. I do want to provide some feedback in the interest of contributing my synergy towards your project for the betterment of the plugin and enjoyment of it’s users.





Here are my two Abe Lincolns. The only way to create new categories is to do it when editing or adding a specific quote. The only way to remove or rename a specific category is to create a new quote with the destination category first, and then to “bulk action” a move from the old category to the new category from the management page.

I think that there needs to be a better and more direct way to manage categories and category slugs. There needs to be a page specifically for this, to include (but not limited to) the options of:
-editing category title
-edit category slug (independent of the title)
-Merge categories
-Split categories
-create category descriptions (for internal, as well as external / public display, if / when configured to do so).
-create quote tags, for large quote databases

Also, the specifying of a Source, Source URL, and Author, Author URL is not very straight forward.

I would like to suggest you make a radio box option next to each of the following, with the value of enabled, or disabled.

-Author Stage Name
-Author Real Name
-Author URL
-Source
-Source URL
-Source Description
-Make URLs Links, or just plain non-linked text

Also, this would be an awesome option:
-Bit.ly Short URL account integration (with link tracking enabled via appended URL Value &history=1), allowing users to enter their Bit.ly user-name and API key for Short URL generation and association for the destination URLs when enabled as links.

I also noticed a bug. When I disable the AJAX loader, Stray Quotes will only load quotes from my first quote category, ever, and will never randomly load quotes from any other category.

A temporary work around for this is to simply put all quotes into one category, thus ensuring that the first and only category when called will rotate through all quotes.

I have also posted a copy of this suggestion on my website. Thank you for your time.