herb miller
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Horizontally scrolling tables on narrow devices
I’ve been looking at how to enable horizontal scrolling on tables created by the [bw_table] shortcode, when the device width is narrow. I want to be able to do it using CSS, without JavaScript. I also want to be able to style the table in the native Gutenberg blocks.
Having looked at a couple of solutions, I believe I’ll be able to achieve it having the table nested in a Group block, and providing the CSS styling using my CSS block.
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June 29, 2020 -
oik-clone v2.0.0-beta-20200616 – cloning new content made easier
Today, after many months of procrastination, I’ve implemented a small change to my oik-clone plugin that should significantly improve my publishing process. oik-clone now has the ability to automatically re-clone content with newly added (uncloned) featured images.
The primary purpose is to ensure that the target system has the correct ID for the featured image.
Original process New process Create the content. Same Upload and attach the featured image. Same View the content. Same In the output of the [clone] shortcode select the post and the child attachment to clone. Click on clone Same. Edit the content – check the SEO meta description, correct a typo or something, update the taxonomies then update. No need to edit. You’re done. View the content again. Clone the content again. Original process vs New process for cloning new content Clone/cloned output before cloning
Post without a featured image. Note: post ID 50 was extracted from the github shortcode. It’s a red herring I’ve learnt to live with.
Clone/cloned output after cloning
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June 16, 2020 -
Testing shortcode expansion in embedded excerpts
Tools like Slack, Facebook, Twitter and WordPress itself are capable of embedding content from another site just by being given a link. I’ve just updated oik so that it will expand shortcodes during ‘the_excerpt_embed’ filtering. Which means you shoudn’t see a load of strange
tags.
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March 14, 2017 -
oik base plugin passed 100,000 downloads
Late yesterday my oik base plugin passed the 100,000 downloads milestone. Another hurrah!
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September 24, 2015 -
oik-nivo-slider passed 80,000 downloads
A few days ago my oik-nivo-slider finally passed the 80,000 downloads milestone. Hurrah!
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September 22, 2015 -
oik-shortcake: A new UI for creating oik shortcodes using shortcake
There is a plugin called shortcake, available from GitHub, which has been touted as an easier way to create shortcodes. This post documents the requirements I have placed on the shortode UI plugin ( shortcake ). Solutions to some of these may improve the end user experience of shortcodes in their content.
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February 2, 2015 -
DIY-oik v1.4 fixes problems with Add-To-Any and Jetpack Related Posts
DIY-oik v1.4 fixes some problems with unexpected output from other plugins.
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January 13, 2015 -
Problem Solving – verse 30 – Problem Size
I'm going to skip the questions the PM may well raise, like "When'll you have a fix for it, are we talking hours or days?"
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January 5, 2015 -
Over 200,000 downloads of my plugins from wordpress.org
The total downloads of the 10 bobbingwide plugins hosted on wordpress.org exceeded 200,000 on 26th November 2014. Here’s some more information about them.
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November 26, 2014 -
H2GD Part 41: How to create a simple contact form
With the right plugin, creating a simple contact form should be almost as easy as typing
display contact form here
. Over on bobbingwidewebdesign.com I reviewed 6 Contact Form plugins. Today, since my Gravity Forms Licence had expired again, I tried Ninja Forms as well. It took me a while to get a working version. I eventually succeeded when I lowered my sights. In the end the results weren’t much better than the simple contact form that comes as standard with my oik plugin.How to create a simple contact form using oik
- Install and activate the oik base plugin
- Visit oik options > options and set a value for your email address:
Email..Email: admin@herbmiller.me
/Email: admin@herbmiller.me - Create some content e.g. a new post or a page
- Somewhere within the content type
[bw_contact_form] - Save There, that wasn’t hard now was it?
- Enough fields to gather information from your site visitor.
- Name and Email are required fields.
- HTML5 validation.
- Spam checking using Akismet.
- Email sent to the content author.
- It’s also copied to the email given on the contact form.
- The email indicates the URL on which the form was completed.
- Default text for Submit button is “Contact me” if the
Contact mickfield is not completed. - 6 contact form plugins compared
- [bw_contact_form]
- Extend the contact form for multiple authors using oik-user
- ninja-forms
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October 2, 2014
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