Greetings Todd:
Thank you for choosing to use this plugin! I am sorry that you are experiencing this issue. Usually, it automatically rotates when using the default shortcode of [quotes].
How many different quotes do you have? How many different categories for the quotes do you have?
Also, if you flush the cache on wp engine, does it change the quote?
Good questions; I have 4 quotes entered so far, and all but one are in either the “Steven Wright” or “Groucho Marx” Categories. I also supplied each quote with the respective authors of each quote.
WP Engine’s dashboard allows me to “Purge All Caches” and “Reset File Permissions”. I performed both tasks even though it looks as if “Reset File Permissions” is primarily for use after uploading via SFTP, which I haven’t used yet.
I went through deactivating plugins, but the one I noticed which I cannot deactivate is a plugin for WP Engine itself. The plugin identifies itself as “WP Engine Plugin v2.2.7” in the footer of the WP Engine dashboard, but I don’t see an entry for it in the plugins section of WordPress. However, upon selective plugin deactivation, the displayed quote didn’t change. I’m going forward with the assumption that the existing plugins do not appear to be the issue.
The consistent element is that Quote Master displays the last quote in my entered list of quotes. If I delete the last quote, then the next one up from that becomes the default quote displayed.
Displaying quotes is not an essential part of my site, so it’s not imperative that my situation is resolved. If I could troubleshoot from a local installation of WordPress, I would, as that could possibly shed more light on what’s going on. As it is, maybe a couple of other commenters are seeing the same issue, but describing it differently enough to appear like unrelated issues?
Thanks and regards,
Todd
