{"id":17,"date":"2020-09-05T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T09:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/en\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-09-05T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T09:04:47","slug":"xv-random-quotes-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/en\/xv-random-quotes-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"XV Random Quotes &#8211; WordPress plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/banner-772x250.png\" alt=\"XV Random Quotes\" class=\"wp-image-15406\" width=\"772\" height=\"250\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a hreflang=\"ca\" href=\"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/codi\/xv-random-quotes-extensio-wordpress\/\">See this page in Catalan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>XV Random Quotes is the first WordPress plugin I really take care individually: both the <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/xavivars\/xv-random-quotes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source code<\/a>\u00a0and the management ad WordPress.org&#8217;s end, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/xv-random-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with the plugin being in the WordPress plugins repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background of XV Random Quotes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/icon-256x256-150x150.png\" alt=\"XV Random Quotes\" class=\"wp-image-15381\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This plugin is really a <em>fork<\/em>: it&#8217;s based in previous developer&#8217;s plugins that, slowly, added all the features this plugins has at the moment of writing this. That&#8217;s why I want to mention all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The original plugin, <em>Random Quotes<\/em>, by Zombie Robot<\/li><li>Ico, who took it after that, naming it&nbsp;<em>Stray Random Quotes<\/em><\/li><li>Finally Sergey Sirotkin, who made the latest updates and fixes, with the name&nbsp;<em>Stray Random Quotes Z<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As I explain in <a href=\"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/bloc\/2015\/i-una-altra-extensio-per-al-wordpress-xv-random-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post presenting the plugin (in Catalan)<\/a>, this is an extension I use at my blog since a very very long time, and it needed a bit of <em>love<\/em>: rewriting of most of the codebase, fixing some bugs, adapting it to the new WordPress standards,&#8230; And not only I use it, but it&#8217;s the main reason of most of the traffic that arrives to this blog through search engines: <a href=\"https:\/\/xavi.ivars.me\/cites\/\">the quotes page (also in Catalan)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The future of XV Random Quotes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My goal is not only keep improving XV Random Quotes, but also take the opportunity of using it as a playpen where I can apply some of the stuff I do (or at least I try to do) every day at work: clean code, design patterns, unit and integration testing,&#8230; And all of that in PHP, a programming language that allows you to write the worst&nbsp;<em>spaguetti code&nbsp;<\/em>you&#8217;ve ever seen, but it also allows you to do things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find any bug, please let me know, eigher through the contact section of this same blog or, (ideally) from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/xavivars\/xv-random-quotes\/issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plugin&#8217;s issues&nbsp;list at&nbsp;GitHub<\/a>, where I plan to manage the plugin&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And&nbsp;<em>last but not least<\/em>, both the plugin&#8217;s logo and the header&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mariosantacreu.com\">have been designed by my friend Mario Santacreu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Donate!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you really like it, you can buy me a beer or a coffee using the PayPal button below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"display:inline-block\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_donations\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"xavi.ivars@gmail.com\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"\u2615 Buy me a coffee!\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"EUR\">\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donate_SM.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"\u2615 Buy me a coffee!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_ES\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\n<\/form><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this page in Catalan XV Random Quotes is the first WordPress plugin I really take care individually: both the source code\u00a0and the management ad WordPress.org&#8217;s end, \u00a0with the plugin being in the WordPress plugins repository. 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