bobbingwide – @bobbingwide

Member Since: December 21st, 2010
Location: po9 6de
Website: oik-plugins.com
Job Title: web designer - web developer - web builder - boss
Employer: Bobbing Wide
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Bio

I’m Herb Miller, a WordPress plugin specialist and the creator of oik plugins – the home of lazy smart shortcodes and the WordPress Dynamic API Reference.

Some of my plugins are hosted on the WordPress repository but there are many more which you can find on oik-plugins.com and/or github/bobbingwide.

Interests

Caravan (prog rock band), Golf, Unicycling, real ale

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress after 30 years in my career as an IT specialist at IBM.

Contribution History

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Plugin Developer
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Created a new ticket, #51607, in Core Trac:
Bulleted list block appears too far to the left in the editor.

1 month ago
Committed [2403101] to Plugins Trac:
tag v1.1.0

1 month ago
Created a new ticket, #5444, in Meta Trac:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress has been hacked - no ...

2 months ago
Committed [2375553] to Plugins Trac:
tag v1.1.0

3 months ago
Committed [2375552] to Plugins Trac:
oik-css v1.1.0 - 2020-09-04 See readme.txt or the GitHub repository ...

3 months ago
Committed [2375503] to Plugins Trac:
tag v1.16.0

3 months ago
Committed [2375502] to Plugins Trac:
oik-nivo-slider v1.16.0 - 2020/09/04 For changes see readme.txt or the ...

3 months ago
Committed [2375407] to Plugins Trac:
tag v4.1.0 2020-09-04

3 months ago
Committed [2375404] to Plugins Trac:
oik v4.1.0 - Updated for compatibility with WordPress 5.5.1 For ...

3 months ago
Created a new ticket, #51231, in Core Trac:
prepare_attributes_for_render should pass $attribute_name to ...

3 months ago
Created a new ticket, #51182, in Core Trac:
Theme_Installer_skin::do_overwrite does not work on a Windows server

3 months ago
Reopened ticket #50993, in Core Trac:
Media Library not loading images

4 months ago
Committed [2355269] to Plugins Trac:
v1.0.1 - remove the Build section from readme.txt

4 months ago
Committed [2355267] to Plugins Trac:
create tagged v1.0.1

4 months ago
Committed [2355266] to Plugins Trac:
v1.0.1 - improve readme files. see issue #11 in GitHub

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda for March 18, 2020 (5.4 Week 10), on the site Make WordPress Core:
Yesterday was the 17th.

9 months ago
Created a topic, Why are the blocks prefixed jetpack?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I'm building a WordPress Blocks Reference at block…

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #45732, in Core Trac:
Twenty Fourteen Button block link displayed with underscore

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #45469, in Core Trac:
wp-polyfill-formdata not found for subdirectory install

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Version compatibility, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for confirming.

2 years ago
Created a new ticket, #43489, in Core Trac:
Strengthen resilience of wp_register_plugin_realpath to support Gutenberg

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Latest Update Version 2.3.0 has broken some Blocks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The custom HTML block problem has been anaylzed in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/5374 It's associated with sub-directory installs.…

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Introducing the Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Database, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm afraid you're viewing it from the wrong direction. It's Gutenberg (i.e. WordPress 5.0) that…

3 years ago
Closed ticket #33886, in Core Trac:
Need ability to determine the priority at which an action hook or filter ...

3 years ago
Reopened ticket #33886, in Core Trac:
Need ability to determine the priority at which an action hook or filter ...

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #42825, in Core Trac:
[embed] shortcode - oembed_cache not being updated when $cached_recently ...

3 years ago
Posted a reply to this plugin killed my wp-admin told me to remove non infected core files!!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Re: How could you design something that lists core files as infected files? I've just…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Second price for same location not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For WooCommerce 3.0 you need to switch to use oik-weight-zone-shipping. If you use the free…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Not showing in shiping method, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you using WooCommerce 2.6 or 3.0? If so, you should switch to https://WordPress.org/plugins/oik-weight-zone-shipping. For…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to HTML formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A solution for this will be delivered in the next version of the plugin. To…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Does not work anymore?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Bakkie, can you explain how hiding the tab caused the shipping calculation to fail?…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to HTML formatting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, there are two things that prevent this from working. oik-weight-zone-shipping treats '/' characters as…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Does not work anymore?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Bakkie, I've set up your shipping rates in the Single rate weight zone shipping…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Almost perfect :), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Enrique. Can you not simply increase the rate by the percentage? Or do you…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Dependency checking issue with oik v2.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just to confirm that this was fixed a long time ago, in v1.14.3 v1.14.4 also…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Migration failed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've completed my analysis of the problem I had. I can confirm that the fatal…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Migration failed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This could be a similar problem... https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-migrate-db/issues/70

4 years ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.7: Custom taxonomy filter stopped working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I had a similar problem with /wp-json/wp/v2/bigram/?filter[s-letter]=H where bigram is a custom post type and…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Hide over specific weight, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I'll look into the Order Email question.

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Costs inclusive tax not possible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, what value for Tax Status have you chosen? If you use a value of…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Woocommerce: wp_remote_post ( ) failed . PayPal IPN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I had the same problem and traced the response from PayPal. It would appear…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Wondering, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Here's an example using oik-css to write the CSS. http://www.oik-plugins.com/shortcode_example/styling-drop-caps-div-shortcodes/

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Wondering, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, it depends on how good your CSS is. To style a dropcap you just…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Problem with 3.1.0 update on multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I've developed a fix for the problem in v3.1.1 For details see https://github.com/bobbingwide/oik/issues/60

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Wondering, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, would you care to specify some more requirements.

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Problem with 3.1.0 update on multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting that. I'm having difficulty reproducing the problem. Can you confirm where you're…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Calculate price when you make a new order manually, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure what support WooCommerce provides for calculating shipping costs on orders created manually.…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to Price based on single items instead of total weight?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No. The plugin calculates the shipping costs based on the total weight of products in…

4 years ago
Posted a reply to where st maximum weight for single method, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've added a FAQ for oik-weight-zone-shipping http://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-faq/set-maximum-cart-weight-2/

4 years ago
Posted a reply to 2 or more weight shipping methods per country, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Fixed in v0.0.2

4 years ago