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.

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '21

PRACTICE

2 badges

Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

web designer - web developer - web builder - boss

Present

Bobbing Wide

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

0contributions

high0

medium0

score0

Last 90 days

3contributions

high3

medium0

score9

Last 12 months

11contributions

high9

medium2

score29

WordPress releases

Contributed to 19 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 05 Sat · 15:33

Plugins high

Committed [3682587] to Plugins SVN:
Remove 4.16.0/trunk created in error

Sep 05 Sat · 15:30

Plugins high

Committed [3682584] to Plugins SVN:
oik v4.16.0 Accessibility (a11y) improvements and a security fix

Sep 05 Sat · 15:25

Plugins high

Committed [3682579] to Plugins SVN:
oik v4.16.0. Accessibility (a11y) improvements and a security fix.

February 2026

Feb 27 Fri · 22:18

Core high

Mentioned in [61763] on WordPress SVN:
Admin: A11y: Update separator colors.

November 2025

Nov 26 Wed · 19:42

Core med

Created ticket #64313 on Core Trac:
Color Contrast raises errors in automated tests for WordPress Dashboard

Nov 25 Tue · 15:21

Plugins high

Committed [3402651] to Plugins SVN:
Set stable version to 4.15.4

Nov 25 Tue · 15:16

Plugins high

Committed [3402646] to Plugins SVN:
v4.15.4 contains a security fix for the oik-accordion shortcode.

Nov 04 Tue · 10:47

Plugins high

Committed [3389571] to Plugins SVN:
oik-privacy-policy v1.4.11. Another security fix for issue 12 - sanitizes the privacy policy page title on the Generate action

October 2025

Oct 31 Fri · 14:45

Plugins high

Committed [3387704] to Plugins SVN:
oik-privacy-policy v1.4.10 tested with <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 6.8.3. Contains a minor security fix.

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 …