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WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook
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, we find that it's easy to update and (when used strategically) can help you get indexed in the major search engines for your targeted keywords and phrases. Flash is limitless with regards to design (though it takes time to become proficient with animation software), but a Flash site is not as well understood by robots and search engines. We introduced the use of two "views" in the WP dashboard—Visual Editor or HTML. Now, we look under the hood for more detail. It is not our intention to provide here a comprehensive guide to using WP, but instead to share some of our favorite tips and tricks for setting up WP as a CMS and for working with Flash. Also, we want to demonstrate ways of working with your site—both the content (posts and pages) and theme files. We review a number of plugins that extend the WordPress core to help...
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