Comments on: How to have a stylish blockquote as in Magazines?

By: Charming Lamb

Charming Lamb — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:42:04 +0000

I cannot seem to get this to work correctly. Can you take a peek and see where I may have gone wrong?

Warmest regards.

By: WP lover

WP lover — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:21:03 +0000

Sadish,

Thank you! This is really neat

By: Sadish

Sadish — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:03:54 +0000

To Stephen.
Thanks for making it more clear for all of us. When I read your plugin page, it was not apparent to me that you are duplicating it into a blockquote element.

To All,
I would like to request you to refrain your comments to what is available on this website.

Thanks.

By: Stephen Rider

Stephen Rider — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:43:30 +0000

(I am the developer of the JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin)

Sadish — actually, the Javascript Pull-Quotes plugin does not format the span, it takes the contents of the span and duplicates it in a blockquote or div element.

The fact that it only works with JavaScript was a conscious choice — I could have just as easily done it in PHP. The reason I feel this is a better way is that the duplicated text only will show up in graphical browsers, and not (for example) unformatted RSS feeds, text-only browsers, or screen readers.

By: Sadish

Sadish — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:15:01 +0000

Thanks for posting your comment Joshua.

Although the “pull quotes plugin” is trying to achieve a similar result, there is some difference in what we want to achieve.
In this post, I am trying to style a “blockquote” element to display in such a way, but the “pull quotes plugin” is trying to style a “span” differently using Javascript.
A blockquote is understood by any browser that understands HTML, but his pull quotes needs a javascript enabled browser.

By: Joshua Mostafa

Joshua Mostafa — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:32:44 +0000

I was just wondering the same thing, and I found the JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin:

http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/wp-javascript-pull-quotes/

It’s an elegant solution; it doesn’t include the extra blockquote in the markup (which would mean repetition of the same content), it adds it in dynamically using JavaScript. This means that feed readers and other non-browser use of content ignores it. You just have to put the text you want quoted into a span with a certain CSS class.

By: Sadish

Sadish — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:32:51 +0000

thanks Brad. Please try it out. Also Let us know if you need to know how to do certain things with WordPress. If we know, we will let you know.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:12:25 +0000

How cool is that and you are giving it for free!!
That’s why i keep coming back Sadish you are the best in my book.
Cannot wait to try it on my blog

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:19:17 +0000

Sadish has this feature in some of his themes, check it out at http://wprocks.com/demo/ !

By: Hanna

Hanna — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:03:01 +0000

I want to try this in my blog! I’ve also seen block quotes where it’s just intended and then a image shows up with the quote sign rather big to the right of the quote. That’s very cool too!