What is it?
The Graceful Pull-Quotes plugin (formerly “JavaScript Pull-Quotes”) is an add-on for WordPress that allows you to easily insert pull-quotes into your posts and pages. It uses client-side JavaScript specifically because, as a purely visual effect, it seems appropriate to avoid “doubling up” the text for people on text-only browsers or older browser that probably won’t properly handle the CSS involved. If a browser has JavaScript turned off, or otherwise somehow can’t handle the pull-quotes, then they should be completely invisible and out of the way.
How do I use it?
The plugin will look for any text that is inside a tag with a class of “pullquote”, and turn it into a pull-quote. <span class="pullquote">This sentence is a pull-quote, for example</span> — though in a real post the span tags will not be visible to readers as they are in this case! Via separate plugin you can add an automatic “Pull-quote” button to the post editor screen (see “extras” in the download); otherwise you should be able to add the <span> manually.
If you like, you can specify a particular side for a particular quote. To do this, simply set the span’s class to “pullquote pqRight” or “pullquote pqLeft”. This will put that one pull-quote on the chosen side completely independently of any other side-related options in use.
There is a options panel in the WordPress admin screen that allows you to set various options. I recommend you check it out before adding any pull-quotes to posts — you can find it under the Presentation section.
In the aforementioned options panel there is a control to select a style for pull-quotes, much like selecting a Theme in WordPress. There is also a preview button, so you can see what a particular style looks like without having to activate it first.
Sometimes you have a sentence with some subsidiary clause that you don’t want to include in the pull-quote. We’ve got you covered. If you have some text that you want to quote, but leave out extraneous, repetitious, or just plain unnecessary text, you put the alternate text in an <!-- HTML comment --> immediately inside the span. This last part is important — <span class="pullquote"><!-- You can put any alternate text you want in the comment -->the comment must be the very first thing inside the span</span>: no spaces, quote marks, or anything else comes first. (Again, the spans and comments will not be visible to your readers — this is just for demonstration purposes!).
Using alternate text in this way is of course completely optional If you like to keep things simple, just put the quotable text in a span as noted above and you’ll be fine. That’s about all there is to it.
Features
- The plugin is fully language-aware and ready for localization. German (Thanks Mattias), French (Merci Ben), Persian, and Italian localizations are included.
- Styles menu. The Options panel has a drop down menu that allows you to choose a visual style for your pull-quotes. Styles are easily customized and open for third-party contributions (similar to WordPress Themes).
- Preview styles without activating them
- A pull-quote style can be embedded in a WordPress theme. If the active theme has a file called “jspullquotes.css” in it, that will be used automatically.
- You can specify a side for a particular quote. To use, set span class to “pullquote pqRight” or “pullquote pqLeft”
- Successive pull-quotes can alternate sides
- Optionally strips links out of the quote text
- Have pull-quotes that differ from the “auto-quoted” text
- Allow user to choose default side
- Advanced options to specify the HTML tag and CSS classes to be used
Installation
Download the file, unzip it, and put the jspullquotes folder into your blog’s wp-content/plugins/ directory. Next activate it in the WordPress Plugins panel.
Download
- jspullquotes.zip v. 2.3
- jspullquotes.zip v. 1.7 (for WP versions lower than 2.5)
Is this download worth something to you? If you have found this system useful, please consider making a donation. Even as little as a dollar is appreciated:
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Share the Love
If you like this plugin, please spread the word! I’ve made one o’ them handy sidebar link images that you can download and put on your own blog. Please link it to this page, of course! Here’s the image; just right-click and save:
Or, if you have the plugin installed, you can simply paste the following into your sidebar (you may need to change the image “src” path, depending on your site):
<a href="http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/wp-javascript-pull-quotes/"><img src="/wp-content/plugins/jspullquotes/extras/jspullquotes.png" alt="JS Pull-Quotes" title="JavaScript Pull-Quotes" height="15" width="80" /></a>Acknowledgements
Thanks to Roger Johansson and “Viper007Bond” for laying much of the groundwork that led to this plugin. See the readme.txt file included with the download for further details.
Thanks to Mattias for the German translation, Ben for the French, and to my wife’s friend Toni’s cousin Ralph for the Italian.
Last but not least, thanks to the fine folks at WordPress who made this all possible.
Troubleshooting/ Work-Arounds
- If you want to use this effect on a non-WordPress website, I suggest you check out the original script on Roger’s site, or my “no links” version.
- PROBLEM: You install it and nothing happens when you add the span tags to your post. SOLUTION: It may be your theme. Check in the
header.phpfile — the following line must appear somewhere in the section of your page (usually toward the end):
<?php wp_head(); ?> - BUG: There are issues with accented letters within alternate text comments that need to be fixed
- You may have noticed “alternate text” pull-quotes throwing errors when you have a double-dash in them. This is an obscure technicality of HTML rearing its head. Technically speaking, a double-dash ends an HTML comment, and that means the comment is ending earlier than you want it to.
- There is a bug in the JavaScript rendering of certain less common browsers, (such as older versions of Safari), which causes it to miss the alternate text. Assuming that some of your users probably do use these browser, you have two options:
- Do the alternate text as described. The buggy browsers will show the *actual* text in the span as though the alternate were not there.
- Put the comment alone in a pullquote span, just before the sentence you’re (sort of) quoting. Buggy browsers will not show any pullquote, but other browsers will work normally. Example:
<span class="pullquote"><!-- Darn that browser! --></span>Darn that Javascript-mangling browser!
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So it is, Zachary. It’s fixed now.
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Thanks!
First of all, great plugin. A try a couple before, but I found this is the best
Now, can I make a suggestion? It will be nice to be able to choose not to use any css. I think some people (like me) will prefer to use just one css in their site, so they will copy and paste de css code of the pullquote in their main css file, to not have to use another css file.
That’s what I will do, but I will have to hack to plugin to do it. Let me know what you think…
Thanks!
Tanguillo –
That’s a good idea. Shouldn’t be too hard to to add as an advanced option. It had occurred to me in the past, but I just never got around to it.
I’ll see about adding it in the next version!
Thanks! Just make sure to let know users that have to copy the code of two css files. It take me a while discover it
See you in next version!
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1.6.6 is up. Primary difference is that, by user request, you can now turn off the CSS in options. This is useful if you want to reduce HTTP requests by putting the CSS directly into your theme’s stylesheet.
I really do like having this plugin available, and what it does is a "handy" addition to my editing/presentation tools on my website/blog. I was wanting to know if you will be continuing to support/maintain it? and whether it is still compatible with Wp v2.3 –>> ongoing?
It seems to me that it is one of the very few of its kind, that does what it is designed to do, and does it well.
Thx for the plugin.
David –
Considering I just updated it yesterday, I would have to say yes, it’s still supported.
Wow, nice! I will try the new version!
Thanks!
Great plugin!
Wondering if you know of the best way to assign a header class to the pullquote text itself. I’m trying to add sifr to the pullquote… any ideas?
Many thanks!!!
[edited to add link -- ed.]
Zack –
Go to the Pull-Quotes options page — it’s in the admin section under the Presentation tab. At the bottom there are settings for “CSS class selector”. You can give the pull quotes any class you wish.
Note that if you change the defaults, you will have to change the CSS files as well — both the once you select, and the “core” CSS file.
Been a while since that last comment, but thanks very much, Strider. It gets a little more complicated than that, but I finally figured it out. For anyone interested in using sIFR, you basically need to call the sIFR function at the end of the jspullquotes.js load function. So, that bit of code would end up looking something like this (relative to your own sIFR):
function pullQuoteOpts(arrOptions) {
pullquote.addEvent(window, 'load', function(){
pullquote.init(arrOptions);
sIFR.replace(century_gothic, {
selector: 'div.pullquote p'
,css: { ** YOUR sIFR CSS HERE ** },
}
});
});
}
Again, many thanks Strider. Great plugin. If interested, I’ll be happy to supply a live url when the site launches. Cheers –
Long story short — The “donate” links on this page were messed up, and short of a couple donations on Feb 27, 2008, I have never received, nor even known about, any of the money people may have donated to this site previous to that date.
(PayPal says all donations were returned to the payors.)
Long story long — You can read the details here.
Argh! Due dilligence: there’s a comma at the end of that code I just posted that will break this in IE. The correct code:
function pullQuoteOpts(arrOptions) {
pullquote.addEvent(window, 'load', function(){pullquote.init(arrOptions);
sIFR.replace( ** your sIFR style here ** }
}
});
});
}
Ah, 4am javascripting! Anyway, again, cheers –
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