oik vs Search Tools – Advanced Search Analytics, Highlight, Extend, Disable

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)

Highlights search term (customizable colours), collects search analytics (privacy friendly), extends default search engine or disable search completely. WP Search Tools, brand new 2024 WordPress plugin, is a collection of useful improvements to the site search functionality if used or not. Search Analytics Do you know what people search for on your website, actually? WordPress core doesn’t store any statistical data, but the WP Search Tools plugin shows detailed insights about the history of searched terms. The Insights is a great analytics tool which tells you what users really look for. No personal data is saved. There are 3 overviews: 1) All Users 2) Logged in 3) Guests (not logged in users) Each overview data is represented by a graph and popularity lists. The graph data can customized and exported either as an image (.svg or .png) or as a .csv file. Most frequent search terms are sorted by a date: ‘today’, ‘last 7 days’, ‘last 30 days’, ‘this year’, ‘overall’. Highlight Search Term In the search results page, the search term is highlighted with a smooth, eye-catching CSS animation. The highlight feature is activated by default. User experience is enhanced and visual mark speeds up finding relevant information. Furthermore, highlight settings are customizable, both background colour and text colour can be set in the WordPress administration options page. Extend Search Free version of the plugin extends the default search engine. It allows searching in custom post types, taxonomies, authors and meta data. All these data of the website are hidden to the basic WordPress search engine and cannot be reached via search functionality. The results are ordered by relevance not post date. The settings can be customized to fit exact needs. It is possible to choose which post types, meta data or taxonomies should be included in the search. Disable Search The plugin prevents WordPress from allowing and handling any search requests from the front-end of the site. If search is not used on the website, it is useful to disable it completely. The seach form is hidden, if called with a standard get_search_form() function, the search requests redirect to a 404 error page. The setting is customizable, you can turn it on/off. Key Features collects search terms what people look for displays graph with recent data highlights search term sorts data according to the users (logged in, guests) and dates highlights the term if it has no results shows basic overview on the Dashboard extends default search engine with post types, meta data, taxonomies, meta data orders search results by relevance settings are customizable disable search Links Website Documentation GitHub repository