WordPress plugin specialist
A few months ago, having resolved to internationalize, localize and test my WordPress plugins, I started busily beavering away at a solution that will enable me to automatically deliver UK English versions of my plugins.
Now that Global WordPress Translation Day #3 is fast approaching it seems timely to write up an outline of my approach. The solution involves a number of fairly well defined processes, and a lot of repetition. [Read more…]
WordCamp London 2017 is over and I am back home thinking about the past weekend and the future. Here’s an update to my bucket list. [Read more…]
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…]
I’m volunteering again at WordCamp London. I have a shorter bucket list for 2017 than I did in previous years. Basically, I need to find some paid work. [Read more…]
Today I updated the version of PHP I use in my development environment, from PHP 7.0.7 to PHP 7.1.1. [Read more…]
WordPress version 0.70 was released on the 27th of May 2003. Today being the 2nd of February 2017, it has reached the grand old age of 5,000 days.
Here’s to the next 5,000.
Since WordPress 3.0, released in June 2010, the themes bundled with WordPress core have been named twentysomething, starting from twentyten. The latest is twentyseventeen. [Read more…]
Version 3.1.0 of the oik base plugin has been tested with WordPress 4.7, using the WordPress develop tests for WordPress 4.7, and PHPUnit 5.7.2. New versions of my plugins will be available soon from the usual places; wordpress.org, oik-plugins and bobbingwide. [Read more…]
If you’re developing a Genesis child theme and making quite a few changes to your style.css file you may want a quick and easy method of ensuring the style file is reloaded every time it gets changed.
One way is to ensure that the ver parameter on the stylesheet definition changes each time you update the file. [Read more…]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been updating the premium version of my WooCommerce weight zone shipping extension. oik-weight-zone-shipping-pro v0.1.0 is now available from oik-plugins.com. This version has three enhancements: support for WPML and WooCommerce MultiLingual, support for shipping classes, and a self update capability. [Read more…]
