Widget or javascript or something to show random quotes?

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  tinatinasblog · Member · Oct 9, 2010 at 3:05 pm

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  I would like to show a new quote either every day or everytime someone visits my blog. I want to write the quotes myself, not show quotes from sites as quote-of-the-day and such.

  Is there a way to do this when you use a wordpress.com-blog? It does not support javascript does it?
  The best would of course be a easy to use widget, if there is one…

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 9, 2010 at 3:55 pm

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  You are correct, JavaScript is not supported, but Panos wrote a great article giving some alternatives for a Quote of the day widget:

  Widgets for wp.com blogs: 6 – quotes etc.

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  tinatinasblog · Member · Oct 9, 2010 at 4:30 pm

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  Oh, thanks :-) I’ll have a look right away and see if I can make any sense of it…! Thanks again!

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  sanjidas · Member · Oct 9, 2010 at 6:17 pm

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  tinatinasblog,

  I want to write the quotes myself, not show quotes from sites as quote-of-the-day and such.

  The best way to do that would be to create a blog that will have only those quotes as blog post titles. An example of such a blog would be I wish I wish I wish… – a blog that has no content, just a post title. This is my experimental quote blog (still very new).

  You can use the rss feed of that blog in springwidgets or widgetbox and create a widget there. They give you a Flash code that can be modified in the gigya method explained by Panos.