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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. [Read more…]
Late yesterday my oik base plugin passed the 100,000 downloads milestone. Another hurrah! [Read more…]
A few days ago my oik-nivo-slider finally passed the 80,000 downloads milestone. Hurrah! [Read more…]
There is a plugin called shortcake, available from GitHub, which has been touted as an easier way to create shortcodes. [Read more…]
Last month a customer noted that the output of my Do-It-Yourself shortcodes plugin was interspersed with the share buttons from Add-To-Any. I reproduced the problem. I also discovered some strange behaviour with Jetpack. Today, while testing my fix I discovered another problem… Jetpack Related Posts attaches itself to the first invocation of ‘the_content’ filter. [Read more…]
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?"
I’ve been sharing some of my plugins on WordPress.org for a while. The total number of downloads for plugins created by bobbingwide has now passed 200,000.
Let me tell you a little more about them. [Read more…]
With the right plugin, creating a simple contact form should be almost as easy as typing
display contact form here
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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.
Email [bw_mailto]/[bw_email]..[bw_contact_form]There, that wasn’t hard now was it?
Contact [bw_contact] field is not completed.A brief note about extending your Copyright statement to reflect the original creation date and the most recently updated date. e.g. (C) Copyright Bobbing Wide 2012-2014 [Read more…]
When I visited this site today I saw some horrible messages from the UK-tides WordPress plugin.
It appears that there is a problem with tidetimes.org.uk today – it produces no results for Chichester Harbour (Entrance) – which is the default for the tideurl parameter of the [bw_tides] shortcode.
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