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WordCamp London 5-7 April – Sessions I might be allowed to attend

I’m attending WordCamp London in April. Once again, I’m volunteering. So I won’t be able to attend all the sessions. These are the ones that I would choose if I were not otherwise occupied with volunteering duties.

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Categories: WordPress

Published: March 22, 2019 | Last updated: March 22, 2019

WordCamp London bucket list – 5-7 April 2019

In previous years I’ve written a bucket list for things I want to achieve while attending WordCamp London. This year I already have 9 items. I’m sure I’ll find the 10th very soon.

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Categories: WordCampTags: #wcldn, bucket list

Published: March 8, 2019 | Last updated: March 28, 2019

Magnetic poetry

buymilk

checktheoil

thaisilk

foilthemall

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Categories: WordPress

Published: February 28, 2019 | Last updated: January 29, 2020

oik-blocks test

I’m testing the latest version of oik-blocks on my iPhone. The Blocklist block below is displaying a list of all the blocks with the namespace prefix oik-block. Some of these blocks were written specifically to help me to populate blocks.wp-a2z.org

Address – oik-block/address
Displays your address
Block icon – oik-block/blockicon
Displays a Block icon
Block info – oik-block/blockinfo
Displays a Block’s information
Block list – oik-block/blocklist
Displays a list of Blocks for a chosen prefix
Contact form – oik-block/contact-form
Displays a Contact form
Countdown – oik-block/countdown
Countdown timer
CSS – oik-block/css
Inline CSS
CSV – oik-block/csv
Displays CSV content
Dashicon – oik-block/dashicon
Displays icons
Fields – oik-block/fields
Displays Fields
Follow me – oik-block/follow-me
Displays Social media links
GeSHi – oik-block/geshi
Generic Syntax Highlighting – for code examples
GitHub Issue – oik-block/github
Display a link to a GitHub issue
Google Maps – oik-block/googlemap
Displays a Google Maps map
Magnetic Poetry – oik-block/magnetic-poetry
Write magnetic poetry refrigerator messages
Nivo slider – oik-block/nivo
Nivo slider
Person – oik-block/person
Displays a person’s information
Search – oik-block/search
Displays a search form
Shortcode block – oik-block/shortcode-block
Expands oik shortcodes
UK Tides – oik-block/uk-tides
Tide times and heights
WordPress – oik-block/wp
Displays information about WordPress and PHP versions

Some of these blocks are duplicated many times by other plugins. Some of the other plugins provide better versions of the blocks. But, rather than drop my blocks, I’ll continue to enhance my versions while the Defacto standard for a particular block has not been set.

Of course, I won’t know which is the best version until I’ve catalogued them all. it’s going to take some time and i hope it’s going to be worth it.

follow my progress at the

WordPress Block Reference

Categories: WordPress

Published: February 26, 2019 | Last updated: February 27, 2019

Core RSS

Does anyone still use RSS? It’s a new block in Gutenberg 5.0

  • oik-blocks CSV block
  • Pagination not working in WordPress 4.4
  • Menu items no longer spaced apart on WordPress 4.4
  • oik-plugins.com now on WordPress 4.4
  • Black Friday – Cyber Monday

Categories: WordPress

Published: February 9, 2019 | Last updated: February 21, 2019

My Favourite Block

I wrote this poem, entitled “My Favourite Block”, for a lightning talk that I prepared for the February 2019 WordPress Portsmouth Meetup.

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Categories: Gutenberg, Poems, WordPress

Published: February 8, 2019 | Last updated: May 16, 2019

WordPress 5.0.1, Classic editor 1.3 and No Gutenberg

Here we go then. I’m in the pub and have just updated to WordPress 5.0.1.

I started writing this post on my iphone.

My own blocks didn’t seem to work properly. I investigated later.  After I’d upgraded oik-blocks to the latest version, everything was fine on my laptop.

With Classic Editor v1.3 per post switching between editors can be done using the Default editor current user Meta Box.

blockworking
Csvyes -when Gutenberg is activated
cssexpect so
CSS block to set table text greentable { color: Green; }

Categories: WordPress

Published: December 17, 2018 | Last updated: December 18, 2018

WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg and the Classic Editor – what did you expect?

Well that was a fuck up! 

I’ve heard reports that the Classic Editor plugin was updated just a few hours before WordPress 5.0 was released and now there’s a completely different user experience. 

The ability to easily choose the editor to create your content has disappeared.  For me, that was the whole reason for having the plugin. Some things don’t work in Gutenberg / 5.0 so I need the ability to use both.  

I don’t think the use cases for the Classic Editor and Gutenberg and WordPress version combinations have been thought through.   I know that I am going to continue to want to use both Gutenberg and the Classic editor under WordPress 5.0. And I need the ability to easily select my preferred editor.  That’s how it was with 0.5. It’s how I tested my sites’ compatibility. 

You don’t bugger about with something hours before a release. You give people a chance to test it.

Lessons need to be learned. WordPress 5.0 release should have been delayed until:

  • v1.0 of the Classic Editor had been tested with Gutenberg 4.6.1 and WordPress 4.9.8 & 5.0-RC3.
  • User documentation was ready.
  • The host of issues starting with #4855 had been addressed.

Fortunately, I haven’t yet upgraded anything yet. I will be testing Classic Editor v1.1 very carefully.

Categories: Gutenberg, WordPressTags: Classic, Gutenberg, WordPress 5.0

Published: December 7, 2018 | Last updated: December 7, 2018

oik v3.2.8 now available

I bit the bullet and published, on wordpress.org, the latest version of oik a couple of days before WordPress 5.0 is due to be released. 

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Categories: WordPress

Published: December 5, 2018 | Last updated: December 5, 2018

oik-block – Gut feel revisited

Back in April I was developing a prototype plugin called oik-block that contained a number of prototype Gutenberg blocks plus a whole load of code that helped me to form opinions regarding Gutenberg’s compatibility with my sites and to estimate the code of migrating to Gutenberg and/or WordPress 5.0. I’ve recently forked oik-block to create a new plugin called oik-blocks. Here’s an update.

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Categories: Gutenberg, plugins, WordPressTags: oik-block, oik-blocks, WordPress 5.0

Published: November 27, 2018 | Last updated: November 28, 2018

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Tide Times & Heights for Northney on Wednesday, 20 January 2021
High Tide: 04:31 ( 4.10m )
Low Tide: 09:34 ( 1.60m )
High Tide: 16:45 ( 3.90m )
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