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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

Chapter 2. WordPress: Configuration and Core Plugins

This chapter demonstrates how to set up and work with WordPress, including creating posts and pages and the basic editing of .php theme template fles. It offers strategies for configuring WordPress and ways to extend the admin tools via plugins. By the end, the user will be able to effectively use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) and in conjunction with Flash.

In this chapter, we cover WP configuration and settings:

  • Inputting content in the Visual Editor

  • Extending the Visual Editor with plugins

  • Inputting content in the HTML editor

  • Editing template files in the Theme editor

  • Configuring WP for maximum SEO

  • Using the XML sitemap SEO plugin

  • Using the custom titles, SEO plugin

  • Using Google Analytics in WordPress

  • Using the breadcrumb navigation SEO plugin

  • Backing up your site

Introduction

InChapter 1, we outlined a strategy for using WordPress based on the relative strengths and weaknesses of WP and Flash. Boiling down the advantages of WP,...