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Now with 9 blocks:
<ul>
<li>Address – Displays your address from oik-options</li>
<li>Contact form – Displays a contact form</li>
<li>Contact field – Part of the Contact form</li>
<li>Countdown – Countdown / count since timer</li>
<li>Dynamic content – Dynamic content block</li>
<li>Follow me – Displays your social media links</li>
<li>Google Maps – Displays a Google Maps map using oik options</li>
<li>PayPal button – PayPal button for: Pay Now, Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, and View Cart / Checkout</li>
<li>Shortcode block for oik shortcodes – Expands oik shortcodes</li>
</ul>
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:
<ul>
<li>[bw_pages], [bw_posts], [bw_thumbs], [bw_attachments], [bw_images], [bw_pdf] shortcodes to list subpages, posts, attachments or custom post types </li>
<li>[bw_cycle] to display content using jQuery cycle.</li>
<li>[bw_list], [bw_tree] to display lists of links to pages, posts, attachments or custom post types </li>
<li>[bw_table] to tabulate pages, posts or custom post types</li>
<li>[bw_bookmarks] to list links</li>
<li>[paypal] shortcodes for PayPal buttons: Pay Now, Buy Now, Donate, Add to Cart, View Cart/Checkout</li>
<li>[bw_block] & [bw_eblock], [div] & [ediv], [clear] – to create block structures within your pages, posts and even widgets</li>
<li>[bw_button], [bw_contact_button] – to provide call-to-action button style links for Artisteer themes</li>
<li>helper shortcodes for web designers and developers: [bw_editcss], [bwtrace], [bw_wpadmin], [bw_wtf], [stag] & [etag]</li>
</ul>
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.
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Whenever you need to change a value you only need to update it in one place; and your website is updated instantly.</li>
<li>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]</li>
<li>For your social networking use the [bw_follow_me] shortcode to display your links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etcetera</li>
</ul>
Features:
<ul>
<li>oik provides buttons to help you write the shortcodes, showing you the parameters you can choose and default values </li>
<li>oik provides a shortcode discovery page where you can find out about every shortcode which is active in your site</li>
<li>lazy programming means that code is only loaded when it’s actually needed</li>
<li>smart means that the shortcodes can recognise the content in which they’re used and adjust their behaviour accordingly</li>
<li>oik is extendable – plugin developers can build on the oik base functionality </li>
<li>using the oik API: help, syntax information, examples AND HTML snippets can be produced for any plugin or theme that provides shortcodes</li>
<li>oik is theme independent; meaning that you can change your theme without having to worry about whether or not the shortcodes will still work.</li>
<li>oik uses microformats so that Google and other search engines can understand your content.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Further reading</h3>
If you want to read more about the oik plugins then please visit the 
<a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik" rel="nofollow ugc">oik plugin</a> 
“the oik plugin – for often included key-information”
<h4>Other plugins</h4>
Other plugins which depend upon the oik API are available on WordPress.org:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbboing" rel="nofollow ugc">bbboing</a> – obfuscate text but leave it readable</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cookie-cat" rel="nofollow ugc">cookie-cat</a> – [cookies] shortcode to list the cookies your website may use</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oik-batchmove" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-batchmove</a> – batch change post categories or published date</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oik-nivo-slider/" rel="ugc">oik-nivo-slider</a> – [nivo] shortcode for the jQuery “Nivo slider” for posts, pages, attachments and custom post types</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oik-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-privacy-policy</a> – generate a privacy policy page, compliant with UK cookie law (EU cookie directive)</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/oik-read-more" rel="ugc">oik-read-more</a> – progressively reveal content by clicking on “read more” buttons</li>
</ul>
Plugins which participate with oik shared libraries are:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/oik-bwtrace/" rel="ugc">oik-bwtrace</a> – Debug trace for WordPress, including action and filter tracing</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oik-css" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-css</a> – [bw_css] for CSS styling per page</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/uk-tides/" rel="ugc">uk-tides</a> – [bw_tides] shortcode for tide times and heights in the UK (replaces oik-tides)</li>
</ul>
These plugins are not dependent upon oik:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/allow-reinstalls/" rel="ugc">allow-reinstalls</a> – Allow re-installation of plugins and themes by upload</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/oik-weight-zone-shipping" rel="ugc">oik-weight-zone-shipping</a> – Weight Zone Shipping for WooCommerce</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/oik-weightcountry-shipping" rel="ugc">oik-weightcountry-shipping</a> – Weight/Country Shipping for WooCommerce</li>
</ul>
More FREE and Premium plugins are available from <a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/wordpress-plugins-from-oik-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-plugins.com</a> including:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/diy-oik" rel="nofollow ugc">diy-oik</a> – Do-It-Yourself shortcodes</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-blocks" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-blocks</a> – WordPress blocks for oik shortcodes</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/external-link-warning-jquery/" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-External link warning jQuery</a> – Warns visitor about leaving your site</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-fields-custom-post-type-field-apis" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-fields</a> – custom post type field APIs</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-ms-oik-multisite-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-ms</a> – oik MultiSite shortcodes</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-mshot" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-mshot</a> – Shortcode to display the “mshot” of an URL; oik-fields extension</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-rating" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-rating</a> – 5 star rating custom field; oik-fields extension</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-testimonials" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-testimonials</a> – Manage and display testimonials.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-todo-todo-list" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-todo</a> – TO DO list</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-types" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-types</a> – custom content type, field and taxonomy manager</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/oik-plugins/oik-user" rel="nofollow ugc">oik-user</a> – display oik information for each site user</li>
</ul>
oik plugins are suitable for:
<ul>
<li>WordPress site owners</li>
<li>WordPress site administrators</li>
<li>WordPress designers</li>
<li>WordPress web site developers </li>
<li>WordPress plugin developers</li>
</ul>
oik plugins are tested with:
<ul>
<li>WordPress</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite</li>
<li>PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2, PHP 8.3 & PHP 8.4</li>
<li>PHPUnit 9.6, 10.5 & 11.4</li>
</ul>
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 <a href="https://www.oik-plugins.com/apis/oik-apis" rel="nofollow ugc">OIK Application Programming Interface (OIK API)</a>

Over 80 advanced, powerful shortcodes, and 9 blocks for displaying the content of your WordPress website.

Andy Fragen

Peter Westwood

Colin Stewart

Paul Biron

Maura Teal

This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.
Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.
By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.
For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.
Don’t forget to backup before you start!
Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.
<h3>Extra Settings</h3>
There is a setting to Skip successful autoupdate emails. It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process are sent.
There is a setting to Skip bundled plugins and themes. It functions to disable the installation of any plugins or themes that are bundled with the Core update.
PRs are welcome on <a href="https://github.com/afragen/wordpress-beta-tester" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

WordPress Beta Tester

This plugin works great, as advertised.

A lot of people complain that you can't revert the DB changes. I bet (hope) that they are not plugin developers. The plugin warns you about this. You are meant to keep a backup of your site first. If you are testing in a container such as docker or a VM, then it's even easier.

This highlights the issue that user reviews are not always reliable. A lot of users click on plugins and run arbitrary code on their sites without even reading the readme, then they come here and complain. Makes you wonder if there should be a feature on this site for users to rate the usefulness of reviews. Oh well, I'm getting side-tracked!

Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.


Must-have for any theme or plugin developer

When I activated my plugins page returns 503: Server runs out of time. Deactivated this plugin and all back to normal. Not recommended for 4.8.3!

Not recommended for 4.8.3

Great plugin to install beta releases for testing plugins and themes.
It would be helpful to see information about version numbers which will be installed.


Great for testing beta releases but missing information about version numbers


This is just brilliant. It allows anyone to test out the beta and see if everything works - Nice work here! I only found out about this from the WPBUILDS podcast - needs more promotion - its fantastic! 


What a fantastic facility!


As a plugin developer, I need this extension to be able to test my plugin against future versions before the officiale release.


Mandatory for a plugin developer!


Seems to work as expected. Great tool to test plugins before release and ensure they are compatible with the next Wordpress release. So thank you for the plugin. 


Great tool


Perfect for developers to test plugins with new versions of WP. 


Working great

Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.

oik vs WordPress Beta Tester