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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

Joan Bailey Reflexology

Aldworth Roofing

The Path of Being

WordPress blog

WordPress MultiSite sites

Hampshire School of Hypnotherapy

Better Core Strength

Rathmore Financial

oik-plugins

Drupal websites

  • Crazy Jim’s Golf Shack – online golf shop
  • Deal with Stress
  • Anchor Golf Society (.co.uk)

Static hand crafted websites

  • Bobbing Wide – freelance web developer
  • The Anchor Golf Society (.com)
  • Susan Cowe – reiki practitioner

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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