Easily Add Citations to Quotes With the Better Blockquotes Plugin

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.

Better Blockquote Options

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.

Better Blockquotes in the Visual Editor

An example of how better blockquotes looks in a post.

How a Better Blockquote 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?