To get started with oik plugins.
- Login to your WordPress site as an administrator
- Install the oik plugin and activate the oik base plugin.
- Go to oik options > Options
- Complete as many fields as you can
- Choose Save changes.
Nothing miraculous happens yet. You now need to specify where you want the information to appear.
- Choose Appearance > Widgets
- For each Widget Area where you want to put your contact information, follow me buttons etc add a Text widget
- Type the shortcodes for the information you want to display. e.g. for your telephone number use [bw_telephone]
- Save the widgets and visit the site.
- You will probably want to style the results. Use edit custom CSS to achieve this.
Now consider your pages and posts. Here’s how to create a simple Contact me page.
Hi. I’ve been able to do a couple of basic things w your plugins shortcodes. It’s very powerful. However, there’s a lot about it I don’t get. Making the slider work is still a mystery to me. Can you tell me how to assign images to the slider? It seems to be just picking up images randomly.
Also, how big should the images should be?
There are so many helpful shortcodes in oik. Do you have a users manual? I’m just a beginner. Thanks for a great tool.
Hi Richard, thanks for your comments. Have you found the Getting started with oik-nivo-slider page? The simplest way to use the nivo slider is to use the [nivo] shortcode to display images which are attached to the current page/post. It’s much better if each of the images are the same size. The default and oik themes both take into account the maximum width for the images being displayed. But I would advise against using enormous images if you’re only going to display them in a small area. Can you explain how you’re getting random images. In the current version (1.1.1) the slider may simply be showing your unattached images. Version 1.2 is going to be available soon. It’s dependent upon oik version 1.12, which contains a new Shortcode settings page. Find more information at oik-nivo-slider – [nivo] shortcode for the Nivo slider
this plugin dose not work I’ve experienced all above problems and then some, Now my entire site is crashed
Fatal error: Call to undefined function oik_require() in /home/business/public_html/wp-content/plugins/oik/admin/oik-header.inc on line 2
Very Frustrating!
Hi Philip, I’m sorry to hear about your problems. I wholeheartedly agree.
Unrecoverable fatal errors are worse than frustrating.
It would appear to me that you have activated the oik custom header image plugin but not oik
I have been able to produce the same unrecoverable Fatal error
Possible ways to recover
comment out the line that caused the fatal error (using ftp or cpanel to access the file)
//oik_require( ‘bobbforms.inc’ );
delete the oik-header.php file
Please let me know how you get on…
and also what you were trying to do in the first place.
BTW. Thanks to your report I have developed a fix for this problem.
Herb