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I have the same issue. I just have a list of titles.

Okay, now that the short code supports multiple quotes, I’ve figured out how to add that to a PHP template.

<?php $quotetrio = apply_filters('the_content','[quotcoll tags='.$quotetags.' orderby="random" limit=3]')  ; ?>
<?php echo $quotetrio ;?>

This applies PHP filters to the short code, making it execute as if it were being displayed as part of the page. Then it echoes that to the page. “$quotetags” here is the list of tags I want to restrict the list to.

The new version 1.5.1 appears to still not support multiple quotes. You can still only display all quotes for a tag or only 1.

I could call the plugin 3 times, but categories that have few quotes would display duplicate entries, which looks stupid.

Really interested in seeing a multiple quote option added to the next version.

I figured out how to add all quotes for a given page…

I replaced the part of the page that gets the content (the_content) with a call to get_the_content plus the quotes shortcode and wrapped that in apply_filters so that the shortcode gets translated.

<?php $content = apply_filters('the_content',get_the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry ?</p>', '', '').'<br/>[quote|tags='.get_the_ID().']')  ; ?>

<?php echo $content ;?>

This works great for getting ALL quotes with a tag that equals the page ID. However, there is no way to limit it, so I can’t use it on my tag or category pages because it would display dozens of quotes (all quotes for all pages with that tag or in that category).

This is such a great plugin, but the all-or-nothing nature of it is frustrating.

I use Tidy Tags to group tags on Zarban’s House of Commentaries so I can create specific tag clouds and also so that I can show tags in a post in a specific order.

My site is a catalog of audio commentaries available on the Web (created by fans and film makers). Every post has tags for things like commentator, director, star, franchise it’s a part of, and decade of release. In the left navigation pane, I can now have separate tag clouds for commentator, director, star, franchise, decade, etc.

And on each post’s page, I can list the tags under the movie or TV episode’s title in specific order, with commentator first, then miscellaneous tags, then director and star. The result is so much cleaner and more intuitive than just lumping all tags together, it’s fantastic!

I really need this feature too. It seems simple enough. WordPress is touted as not just blogware but content management software, after all. I use it to track hundreds of audio commentaries, so one post is very similar to another from the same commentary source, yet I always have to paste in the body, modify it, then manually add the same tags and categories again and again.