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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 4. Video Blogging + Flash Video Encoding, Skinning, and Components

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • FLV Embed plugin

  • Video blogging using WebTV Plugin

  • Video blogging using Free WP Tube theme

  • Encoding with the Flash Media Encoder

  • Using preset skins

  • Hiding and Showing preset skins

  • Using Video Component buttons

  • Modifying Video Component buttons to customize your own skin

Introduction

Video is a major component of the Web today. Luckily, WordPress makes it easy to publish and share video. In this chapter, we will demonstrate ways of working with video in WordPress and in Flash. You will learn how to embed an .flv file, create an .xml video sitemap, and distribute your videos to sites such as YouTube and Blip. We will also show you how to set up Free WP Tube, a free video blogging theme that allows you to run a video web log (vlog).

Encoding through use of the Flash Media Encoder for reduced file sizes and creation of .flv is covered along with using Flash's default skinning options...