Better Blockquotes is a free WordPress plugin created by Devin Price that makes it easy to add citations to blockquotes. When a user clicks the blockquote button with no text highlighted, a dialogue box pops up with options to add a quote, citation, and a citation link.
Citations are inserted into the post with HTML5 markup. The blockquote button retains its default behaviour with highlighted text. I tested the plugin on WordPress 4.4 beta 3 and it works as advertised.
I did notice however, that the citation displays immediately after the last character in the quote. I’d prefer to have
a space between the last character and the citation.
An example of how better blockquotes looks in a post.
Based on feedback, Price says he’ll attempt to add it to WordPress core as an enhancement. Is better blockquotes something you’d like to see added to WordPress?
I think this could be a useful enhancement for those who don’t enjoy or can’t type code in the code editor. I can see my clients possibly taking advantage of this either as a standalone plugin or as an enhancement to WordPress.