herb miller
WordPress plugin specialist
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oik-clone v2.0.0-beta-20200616 – cloning new content made easier
Today, after many months of procrastination, I’ve implemented a small change to my oik-clone plugin that should significantly improve my publishing process. oik-clone now has the ability to automatically re-clone content with newly added (uncloned) featured images. The primary purpose is to ensure that the target system has the correct ID for the featured image.…
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June 16, 2020 -
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 so that it will expand shortcodes during ‘the_excerpt_embed’ filtering. Which means you shoudn’t see a load of strange tags.
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March 14, 2017 -
Google Maps once again requiring an API key
I’ve been porting a site from Drupal to WordPress recently but it wasn’t until I loaded it onto hosting with 1&1 that I noticed some problems with my [bw_code bw_show_googlemap] shortcode. I’ve fixed the problem in v3.0.2. The new solution requires you to obtain a Google Maps API key, and enter it in oik options.
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June 27, 2016 -
oik base plugin passed 100,000 downloads
Late yesterday my base plugin passed the 100,000 downloads milestone. Another hurrah!
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September 24, 2015 -
H2GD Part 46: Migrate to the Genesis Framework
In this blog post I mention some of the tasks I needed to perform in order to migrate oik-plugins.com to the Genesis framework.
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July 23, 2015