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oik is a set of plugins delivering over 70 lazy smart shortcodes for use just about anywhere on your website.

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 "follow me" sites use the [bw_follow_me] shortcode to display your links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, etcetera

The oik base plugin also 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.

• [bw_pages], [bw_posts], [bw_thumbs], [bw_attachments], [bw_images], [bw_pdf], shortcodes to list subpages, posts, attachments or custom post types
• [bw_list], [bw_tree] to display lists of links to pages, posts, attachments 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_page], [bw_post], [bw_wpadmin], [bw_wtf], [stag] & [etag]

Features:

• 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.
• 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 includes a number of optional modules which can be activated as and when you need them:

• oik-email-signature to help generate an email signature file for all your email messages
• oik-header for custom page header image selection for pages, posts and custom post types
• oik-sidebar gives you the ability to use Widget Wrangler with Artisteer v3 themes

For WordPress designers, web site developers and plugin developers:

• oik-bob-bing-wide to provide more lazy smart shortcodes: bw_plug, bob/fob bing/bong wide/hide wow, oik and loik, wp, wpms, bp, artisteer, drupal
• oik-bwtrace provides an advanced trace function, which logs trace information to a file, rather than including it within the web page output
• oik-shortc-shortcodes - shortcode help shortcodes: provides [bw_code] and [bw_codes] shortcodes
• oik-fields - [bw_field] [bw_fields] shortcodes to display Custom Fields (post metadata) (beta version)

For use in BuddyPress sites:

• oik-bp-signup-email to intercept BuddyPress registration emails

For use in bbPress sites:

• oik-bbpress to strip tags from bbPress forum title tooltips

Other plugins which use the oik API are also available on WordPress.org:

• oik-nivo-slider - [nivo] shortcode for the jQuery "Nivo slider" for posts, pages, attachments and custom post types
• uk-tides - [bw_tides] shortcode for tide times and heights in the UK (replaces oik-tides)
• bbboing - obfuscate text but leave it readable
• more coming soon!

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 bobbing wide application programming interface (bw API).