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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.
Late yesterday my oik base plugin passed the 100,000 downloads milestone. Another hurrah!
A few days ago my oik-nivo-slider finally passed the 80,000 downloads milestone. Hurrah!
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.
DIY-oik v1.4 fixes some problems with unexpected output from other plugins.
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?"
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.
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.
EmailEmail: admin@herbmiller.me
/Email: admin@herbmiller.me..[bw_contact_form]There, that wasn’t hard now was it?
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