It’s been nearly 9 years since I first released my oik plugin to wordpress.org
Today, after many months of procrastination I finally released another update. oik v4.0.0 now embraces the block editor.
Well, it delivers a number of blocks; 6 in total, though wordpress.org only detected 5.
- Address – oik/address
Displays your address from oik-options - Contact form – oik/contact-form
Displays a Contact form - Countdown – oik/countdown
Countdown timer - Follow me – oik/follow-me
Displays Social media links - Google Maps – oik/googlemap
Displays a Google Maps map using oik options - Shortcode block for oik-shortcodes – oik/shortcode-block
Expands oik shortcodes
Examples for each block
The original shortcode is shown on the left. The equivalent block on the right.
[bw_code bw_address]
[bw_code bw_contact_form]
[bw_code bw_countdown]
[bw_code bw_follow_me]
[bw_code bw_show_googlemap]
Map
A variety of simple block shortcodes. e.g. [bw_code bw_copyright]
Further reading
The blocks are documented in their home site and in the WordPress Blocks reference.
- These blocks were originally developed in the oik-blocks plugin.
- oik-blocks plugin’s blocks are being forked to their relevant plugins, some of which are on wordpress.org
| Plugin name and description | Plugin links | Version, total downloads, last update, tested |
|---|---|---|
| oik Over 80 advanced, powerful shortcodes, and 9 blocks for displaying the content of your WordPress website. | oik home | 4.16.0 232,902 September 5, 2026 7.1.3 |
| oik-css Allows internal CSS styling to be included in the content of the page. | oik-css home | 2.3.1 6,021 November 14, 2024 6.7.10 |
| uk-tides UK tides – heights and times | uk-tides | 3.3.2 November 14, 2024 6.7 |
Other plugins are only available from oik-plugins.com
oik-bob-bing-wide – delivers 5 blocks
- CSV – oik-bbw/csv
Displays CSV content - Dashicon – oik-bbw/dashicon
Displays icons - GitHub Issue – oik-bbw/github
Display a link to a GitHub issue - Search – oik-bbw/search
Displays a search form - WordPress – oik-bbw/wp
Displays information about WordPress and PHP versions
oik-magnetic-poetry – delivers 1 block
- Magnetic Poetry – oik-mp/magnetic-poetry
Write magnetic poetry refrigerator messages
CodeisPoetry