oik for WordPress Plugin Directory

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)