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October 9, 2013 by Bobbing Wide

Celebrating 4 years of Bobbing Wide

Just over four years ago, October 2009, Herb Miller retired from IBM and started working on his new project Bobbing Wide. This is a brief history of achievements to date.

Websites

A few random examples of sites we’ve developed

WordPress websites

Anchor Golf Society (.com)

Denise Thatcher Invades Britain

Editing Edge – Business Copywriting

Japics Photography

WordPress MultiSite sites

EOCI – Earth Observation Consultants Intl.

Rathmore Financial

Hampshire EFT – Susan Cowe

Caravan: Paradise Filter

Drupal websites

  • PAGE Specialist Engineering
  • Therapy Directory
  • Anchor Golf Society (.co.uk)

Static hand crafted websites

  • The Anchor Golf Society (.com)
  • Susan Cowe – reiki practitioner
  • Anchor Golf ( 2008-2010 )

Plugins

Bobbing Wide have published eight plugins on WordPress.org.

oik-css
oik-batchmove
oik-privacy-policy
uk-tides

Over 35 others are available from oik-plugins.com And we’ve developed some pretty fancy bespoke plugins too.

Themes

Bobbing Wide have built over 200 bespoke WordPress and Drupal themes using Artisteer. Since the completion of the oik-themes plugin we’ve been making some of them available on oik-plugins.

Shortcodes

Each website we’ve developed has required a mixture of commonly used information as well as unique content requirements. Starting with the oik base plugin ( for OIK Information Kit ) we’ve created over 100 advanced shortcodes. Some examples, used in this post and the widgets (header, sidebar, footer): [bw_pages] [bw_list] [bw_thumbs] [bw_css] [bw_plug] [bw_code] [div] [ediv] [bw_follow_me] [bw_contact_form]

Sites

Bobbing Wide now have multiple websites providing a range of services

Chronology – milestones

the story so far…

Date Event
Oct 2009 Herb Miller retired from IBM
Mar 2010 Bobbing Wide open for business: static hand crafted websites built with PHP HTML and CSS
May 2010 www.bobbingwidewebdesign.com WordPress blog goes live.
Jun 2010 bw API started – as Drupal custom module and WordPress plugin ( bwapi )
Jun 2010 first Drupal site with an Artisteer theme
Jul 2010 first eCommerce site with Drupal and Ubercart
Jul 2010 first WordPress site
Dec 2010 oik-plugins.com website created
Jan 2011 published first plugin on WordPress.org – oik v0.1
Oct 2011 set up wp-pompey
Apr 2012 oik-nivo-slider on WordPress.org
May 2012 cookie-cat plugin and cookie-cat server
Aug 2012 oik-plugins server for delivering FREE and premium WordPress plugins
Jun 2012 first oik theme – oobit – developed for WordCamp UK 2012
Jul 2012 WordCamp UK 2012 presentation – Lazy smart shortcodes
Feb 2013 WordPress.org
Aug 2013 Bobbing Wide contributed to WordPress 3.6
Aug 2013 oik-themes server trial on oik-plugins.co.uk
Sep 2013 oik-nivo-slider v1.9 on WordPress.org
Oct 2013 facelift for oik-plugins.com; oik-themes server goes live
Oct 2013 www.bobbingwide.com migrated to WordPress Multisite

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