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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

Backing up your site


Backing up your site is absolutely essential, especially for those for those of us who enjoy coding and customizing our site and theme. Here, we outline a strategy to back up your content in three parts: WordPress content in XML format, themes, plugins, uploads, and configuration files via FTP, and SQL backup via plugin.

Getting ready

WP-DBManager (Version 2.50) is our plugin recommendation. This excellent plugin was contributed by veteran WP plugin developer Lester "Gamerz" Chan. In addition to creating database backups, you can also optimize your database and restore an existing backup. You can even repair a database, add or drop tables, or run an SQL query from the WP dashboard.

How to do it...

To back up your content, you will need to download a file in XML format that contains your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags for all authors. Since your content is separate from your design, a backup in this format will allow you to import your data ...