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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.
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. |
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.
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.