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How oik works
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Now with 9 blocks:
Address – Displays your address from oik-options
Contact form – Displays a contact form
Contact field – Part of the Contact form
Countdown – Countdown / count since timer
Dynamic content – Dynamic content block
Follow me – Displays your social media links
Google Maps – Displays a Google Maps map using oik options
PayPal button – PayPal button for: Pay Now, Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, and View Cart / Checkout
Shortcode block for oik shortcodes – Expands oik shortcodes
The oik base plugin provides a series of advanced WordPress shortcodes that help you display dynamic content from your website’s pages, posts, attachments, links and custom post types.
The OIK Information Kit uses lazy smart shortcode technology to display your WordPress website’s content including your often included key-information.
The functionality in the oik base plugin is used by over 40 other WordPress plugins, providing powerful facilities for an efficient, performant website.
oik now provides over 80 shortcodes including:
[bw_pages], [bw_posts], [bw_thumbs], [bw_attachments], [bw_images], [bw_pdf] shortcodes to list subpages, posts, attachments or custom post types
[bw_cycle] to display content using jQuery cycle.
[bw_list], [bw_tree] to display lists of links to pages, posts, attachments or custom post types
[bw_table] to tabulate pages, posts or custom post types
[bw_bookmarks] to list links
[paypal] shortcodes for PayPal buttons: Pay Now, Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, View Cart/Checkout
[bw_block] & [bw_eblock], [div] & [ediv], [clear] – to create block structures within your pages, posts and even widgets
[bw_button], [bw_contact_button] – to provide call-to-action button style links for Artisteer themes
helper shortcodes for web designers and developers: [bw_editcss], [bwtrace], [bw_wpadmin], [bw_wtf], [stag] & [etag]
oik helps you to display information about you, your company, your social networking ids and your website using standard formats that search engines such as Google recognise.
You enter your information once, then use oik shortcodes to display it wherever you want; in titles, post and page content, header, sidebar and footer widgets.
Whenever you need to change a value you only need to update it in one place; and your website is updated instantly.
Shortcodes to display often included key information include: [bw_contact], [bw_telephone], [bw_mobile], [bw_mailto], [bw_company], [bw_address], [bw_show_googlemap], [bw_directions], [bw_logo], [bw_qrcode], [bw_copyright]
For your social networking use the [bw_follow_me] shortcode to display your links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etcetera
Features:
oik provides buttons to help you write the shortcodes, showing you the parameters you can choose and default values
oik provides a shortcode discovery page where you can find out about every shortcode which is active in your site
lazy programming means that code is only loaded when it’s actually needed
smart means that the shortcodes can recognise the content in which they’re used and adjust their behaviour accordingly
oik is extendable – plugin developers can build on the oik base functionality
using the oik API: help, syntax information, examples AND HTML snippets can be produced for any plugin or theme that provides shortcodes
oik is theme independent; meaning that you can change your theme without having to worry about whether or not the shortcodes will still work.
oik uses microformats so that Google and other search engines can understand your content.
Further reading
If you want to read more about the oik plugins then please visit the
oik plugin
“the oik plugin – for often included key-information”
Other plugins
Other plugins which depend upon the oik API are available on WordPress.org:
bbboing – obfuscate text but leave it readable
cookie-cat – [cookies] shortcode to list the cookies your website may use
oik-batchmove – batch change post categories or published date
oik-nivo-slider – [nivo] shortcode for the jQuery “Nivo slider” for posts, pages, attachments and custom post types
oik-privacy-policy – generate a privacy policy page, compliant with UK cookie law (EU cookie directive)
oik-read-more – progressively reveal content by clicking on “read more” buttons
Plugins which participate with oik shared libraries are:
oik-bwtrace – Debug trace for WordPress, including action and filter tracing
oik-css – [bw_css] for CSS styling per page
uk-tides – [bw_tides] shortcode for tide times and heights in the UK (replaces oik-tides)
These plugins are not dependent upon oik:
allow-reinstalls – Allow re-installation of plugins and themes by upload
oik-weight-zone-shipping – Weight Zone Shipping for WooCommerce
oik-weightcountry-shipping – Weight/Country Shipping for WooCommerce
More FREE and Premium plugins are available from oik-plugins.com including:
diy-oik – Do-It-Yourself shortcodes
oik-blocks – WordPress blocks for oik shortcodes
oik-External link warning jQuery – Warns visitor about leaving your site
oik-fields – custom post type field APIs
oik-ms – oik MultiSite shortcodes
oik-mshot – Shortcode to display the “mshot” of an URL; oik-fields extension
oik-rating – 5 star rating custom field; oik-fields extension
oik-testimonials – Manage and display testimonials.
oik-todo – TO DO list
oik-types – custom content type, field and taxonomy manager
oik-user – display oik information for each site user
oik plugins are suitable for:
WordPress site owners
WordPress site administrators
WordPress designers
WordPress web site developers
WordPress plugin developers
oik plugins are tested with:
WordPress
WordPress Multisite
PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2, PHP 8.3 & PHP 8.4
PHPUnit 9.6, 10.5 & 11.4
All of the plugins are developed using a set of functions that can make PHP and HTML coding a bit easier.
These are known as the OIK Application Programming Interface (OIK API)
Standardized capabilities
AppRanks hasn't mapped this app to standardized capabilities yet. The developer's own feature list is shown above.
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oik is a WordPress app by bobbingwide. It holds a 3.7-star average from 3 reviews on WordPress.
About oik on the WordPress Plugin Directory
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