Glad you like the plugin. Unfortunately, there’s no support for always randomizing quotes. Also, since it’s an unusual use case, I’m reluctant to add it to the core plugin. However, you could hack the plugin pretty easily to make everything random. I would try to overwrite the ‘get_next_quote’ function to pull a random quote from the list rather than shifting forward as it currently does.

Send me a note if you have any troubles.

I absolutely love the quote rotator and have an immediate usage for it. The issue I’m having however, and not too sure how to implement it; is one of randomization of quotes. I noticed you have made the inclusion for the 1st quote to be randomized, (which would in fact take care of the issue) if I had quotes listed by multiple authors (which in this instance I do) but a vast majority are presented by the same author.
My question is, is there a randomization method that can at random select a quote rather than having the 1st quote randomized and those subsequently listed displayed? So basically each quote that displays is in fact a random quote.

I would appreciate some input at your earliest convenience and again, GREAT plugin.

Shane

Secondarily though, I have a MUCH larger problem. I have this implemented in a div. Regardless of browser (IE9, Firefox 7, Chrome) – if I go to a different tab, then come back about 10 minutes later, the space where quotes should be is completely blank. Then after some time (maybe double the rotation_speed) it shows a bunch of the LI elements I have all at once. Then for each rotation_speed, one of them gets removed and it gradually shrinks over time.

Seems as though being in a separate tab it doesn’t reinitialize correctly or something when it returns. Since one of them disappears after rotation_speed I assume that when the tab is out of focus LI’s are not being set as inactive somehow. Then all active ones show, and each rotation_speed after that its correctly marked as inactive.
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Not sure if this was submitted and needs to be approved first. Wanted to mention that similar behavior occurs for me in your demo as well.

Any insight would be helpful.
Thanks!

After trying many many MANY different options, I used yours to rotate the testimonials on the 15 Kilo Coffee Roasters website (http://15kilo.com). The code is implemented in 4 different places on the site (2 different rotation lengths, solved by duplicating the JS file) as well as using PageLime CMS in the backend to add and subtract list items to be rotated.

Cheers,
Chris

I added on_rotating and on_rotated. on_rotating passes back the active node and the next node as event arguments. The need for this is due to the fact I am resizing the iframe and parent container when the quote size changes.

shoot me an email if you would like me to shoot you the code.

I still plan on looking at this towards the end of the week to see if I can smooth out the fade in and fade out while those events are occurring. The fix above makes the text readable after the fade in occurs.