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.
Work
41 Redhill Road
Rowlands Castle
Hants
PO9 6DE
UK
A variety of simple block shortcodes. e.g. [bw_copyright]
© Copyright herb miller 2012-2021. All rights reserved.
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 lazy smart shortcodes for your WordPress website |
oik | 4.4.1 October 8, 2021 5.8.1 |
| oik-css Internal CSS styling |
oik-css | 2.0.0 September 11, 2021 5.8 |
| uk-tides UK tides – heights and times |
uk-tides | 3.0.0 September 11, 2021 5.8 |
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