shortcodes Archives - herb miller

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. [Read more…]

oik base plugin passed 100,000 downloads

Late yesterday my oik base plugin passed the 100,000 downloads milestone. Another hurrah! [Read more…]

oik-nivo-slider passed 80,000 downloads

A few days ago my oik-nivo-slider finally passed the 80,000 downloads milestone. Hurrah! [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

DIY-oik v1.4 fixes problems with Add-To-Any and Jetpack Related Posts

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…]

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?"

[Read more…]

Over 200,000 downloads of my plugins from wordpress.org

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…]

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 [bw_mailto]/[bw_email]..
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?

Example

Features

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 [bw_contact] field is not completed.

Some advice on Copyright statements – extend the year range

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…]

UK tides – Langstone Harbour, Chichester Harbour, Northney and Bosham

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. [Read more…]

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