bobbingwide (@bobbingwide) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m Herb Miller, a WordPress plugin specialist and the creator of oik plugins – the home of lazy smart shortcodes and the WordPress Dynamic API Reference.

Some of my plugins are hosted on the WordPress repository but there are many more which you can find on oik-plugins.com and/or github/bobbingwide.

Interests

Caravan (prog rock band), Golf, Unicycling, real ale

WordPress Origin Story

I discovered WordPress after 30 years in my career as an IT specialist at IBM.

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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

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Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

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Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '21

PRACTICE

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Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

web designer - web developer - web builder - boss

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Bobbing Wide

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October 2025

Oct 21 Tue · 11:45

Forums med

Created a topic, Easy to use PDF FlipBook viewer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I chose this plugin since it better suited my initial …

Oct 20 Mon · 20:04

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Created a topic, WAVE reports contrast error for DearFlip: Loading PDF, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm using the WAVE accessibility evaluation tool to ch…

September 2025

Sep 02 Tue · 11:40

Forums med

Posted a reply to Max weight?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you have to set the maximum cart weight then you can do so by…

Sep 02 Tue · 11:30

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Posted a reply to Wrong Price in newer Woo-Versions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Maik, I've just tested the plugin with WooCommerce 10.1.2 and haven't been able to…

April 2025

Apr 19 Sat · 17:06

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Created a topic, Tested with WordPress 6.8?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I noticed there's an update for the plugin. I thin…

Apr 12 Sat · 13:05

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Posted a reply to PHP Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The change for v1.3.1 to call method load_cf_textdomain on init rather than plugins_loaded doesn't resolve…

Apr 12 Sat · 12:52

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Created a topic, Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When WP_DEBUG is true this plugin produces the followi…

Apr 12 Sat · 12:51

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Created a topic, Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When the WP_DEBUG constant is true this plugin produce…

November 2024

Nov 21 Thu · 12:56

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Posted a reply to WARNING and NOTICE: _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ditto. The notice goes away if you switch to US English and/or disable WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY

October 2024

Oct 29 Tue · 17:01

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Posted a reply to Function name conflict, too generic, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oops, I forgot to update this when I released oik-bwtrace v4.0.0. That's similar to the…