oik v4.0.0 finally released

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.

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	4.1.2 January 30, 2021
oik-css Allows internal CSS styling to be included in the content of the page.	oik-css home	1.1.0 2,057 September 4, 2020 5.5.3
uk-tides Tide heights and times for UK ports and harbours	uk-tides home	2.0.0 4,061 December 19, 2020 5.6.2

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