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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

Overview of this book

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform now. This flexible CMS is the power behind millions of URLs, including blue-chip companies, small business, and personal websites. Flash is a world-famous multimedia platform. This book will show you the best of the proven and popular strategies and techniques to deliver rich multimedia content, which will let you sail through the world of Flashy Wordpress with ease.This book will take you through clear well-formed and comprehensive recipes, through the most essential and useful Flash multimedia tools for Wordpress available today including plugins for images, audio and video, as well as projects you can do yourself in Flash. It helps you to create a Wordpress website full of Flash content. We show the big picture by providing context, best practices and strategies. Detailed instructions are provided for each section. This book provides you with the shortlist of the most essential Flash tools for creating a dynamic and media-rich website or blog, and shows you how to implement these on your site. The sections on Flash are intended to give you the option to create custom .swf files, giving you an alternative to plugins that already exist. The book will show you how to configure Flash content in your WordPress site/blog for maximum SEO, introduce Flash content to your Wordpress with and without plugins, import image feeds, use lightbox effects, and much more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Wordpress and Flash 10x Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
WordPress Resources
Flash Resources

Building a slideshow in Flash with XML


The next level of creating elements in Flash is to incorporate XML. With XML, you do not have to open up Flash, import new image files into your FLA, and position them on the stage in the appropriate key frame. Instead, you can simply update your XML file in any text editor.

This method of slideshow creation is at the intermediate/advanced level because it requires a fair amount of ActionScript in your Flash document as well as an XML file. In addition to changing the images that display in the slideshow, the length of time they are displayed can be changed in the .xml file as well.

If you would like a preview of a sample slideshow, open the slideshow_xml.fla file in theChapter 3 folder.

Getting ready

Have images available to you and collected in one folder. JPG files will work well. It is usually best if the images have the same dimension. There are images available to you in theChapter 3 images folder if you prefer that. You will also need access to...