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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

Use Google Analytics in WordPress


Our final SEO recommendation is to use Google Analytics (GA). Though the benefit of knowing something about your visitors and how they use your site may be clear, it may not be immediately obvious how this is an SEO practice. The answer is simple: Analytics data is the feedback loop by which you fine tune or revise your SEO strategy. Once your site is designed and launched, we suggest you adjust your SEO practices based on the real-world results.

How to do it...

Google Analyticator (Version 5.1) is our recommended plugin.

  1. 1. Click on Plugins | Add New and search for "Analyticator".

  2. 2. Click Install and Activate.

    You will need to sign up for an Analytics account and associate a URL with it: http://www.google.com/analytics/

  3. 3. You do not need to copy the tracking code that is automatically generated at the completion of the sign-up and website profile creation process. Visit your Analytics homepage and copy the UA number (directly to the right of the website...