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December 16, 2020 by Bobbing Wide

A few useless facts about WordPress revisited

Some useless facts that might help you to create an unbelievable “Did you know?” fact about WordPress such as:

The readme.txt for the original release of WordPress contained one word – Holder.

Herb Miller – December 2020

At 1,979,581 bytes, the components.js file is three times larger than the whole of the first version of WordPress.

Herb Miller – December 2020

Filed Under: FYI, News

December 3, 2020 by Bobbing Wide

PageSpeed Insights testing with Wordfence

I was recently sent a couple of uninvited messages saying

  1. My site’s slow.
  2. It’s not secure.

I was offered a technical report. I didn’t reply. But I did take action.

Filed Under: FYI, News Tagged With: performance, security

oik-loader

WordPress Must Use plugin to load required plugins.

Use the oik-loader plugin to load required plugins on demand. A custom plugin for the WordPress Blocks Reference ( blocks.wp-a2z.org )

September 4, 2020 by Bobbing Wide

WordPress 5.5 without jQuery Migrate

Bobbing Wide’s oik plugins now support WordPress 5.5 without jQuery Migrate. Updated versions are being delivered from wordpress.org and oik-plugins.com

We have updated a number of plugins that use jQuery, confirming they work in WordPress 5.5(.1). We’ve also tested them with jQuery v3.5.1, which is expected to be delivered as part of WordPress 5.6, in December 2020.

Filed Under: News, plugins Tagged With: jQuery, WordPress 5.5, WordPress 5.5.1

Banner image for the wp-top12 plugin

WP-top12

Display selected plugins by most downloaded from WordPress.org

This plugin provides the [wp-top12] shortcode used in Top 10 WordPress plugins – top-10-wp-plugins.com.

October 16, 2019 by Bobbing Wide

Celebrating 10 years of Bobbing Wide

Just over 10 years ago I retired from IBM. I’ve created quite a few websites since then, some as paid work, many others as a labour of love.

Filed Under: News

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