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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

Using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin


We've already configured WP to automatically notify the major blog search engines each time you update or publish content. Wouldn't it be nice to do the same for the major search engines such as Google, Bing, Ask.com, and Yahoo? The same XML technology can be used to create a sitemap, or a list of pages on your site available to users and crawlers. The good news is that you can leverage a WP plugin to do so with a few clicks. The Google XML Sitemaps plugin is authored by Arne Brachhold <http://www.arnebrachhold.de/>, the homepage is: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/*

How to do it...

  1. 1. To add a new plugin, navigate to: Plugins | Add New.

  2. 2. Search for "Google XML".

  3. 3. Install and activate: Install | Install Now | Activate Plugin.

  4. 4. Visit the plugin configuration panel: Settings | XML-Sitemap.

  5. 5. Make sure to click: Click here to build it the first time.

  6. 6. The default settings are sufficient for most users.

How it works...

The XML sitemap...