A long time ago, I was asked if it was possible to put the nivo shortcode into a sidebar widget.
I said yes, and developed an example on this site – in the header.
Since then I’ve had problems where the transitions weren’t displaying correctly.
In June 2013 I tried applying a fix to set max-width to none on .nivoSlider img.
Just recently, I noticed the problem on a slider being displayed in a text widget in a child theme I was creating.
And today I finally tracked down the problem. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 17: shortcode parameter value behaviours explained
I was recently asked how to define the parameters to the bw_email shortcode so that the prefix was blank. The solution was to specify the prefix parameter as prefix=” ” and the separator as sep=””.
Then I tried looking at why prefix=”” or simply prefix= produced a different result from sep=”” or sep= versus sep=” “.
And then I tried [bw_email prefix= sep= tiddles=] and this is what the rest of this post is about. [Read more…]
oik plugins at WordCamp UK 2012
I’m in Edinburgh this weekend attending WordCamp UK 2012 (#WordCampUK) where I’ll be giving my presentation on “lazy smart shortcodes”. [Read more…]