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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 Video Component buttons to customize your skin


It is possible that you might prefer to make a skin look the way you want it to look, rather than the way that Adobe designed it to look. There are ways to make this happen. In addition to the preset skins used in previous recipes, you can also use individual component buttons to customize your skin.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have access to an FLV file. If you completed the recipe for Encoding with the Adobe Media Encoder, you can use that FLV. If you need an FLV file, use short.flv from theChapter 4 folder.

How to do it...

  1. 1. In Flash, create a new file by going to File | New (Cmd/Ctrl N).

  2. 2. Select Flash File (ActionScript 3.0), and hit OK.

  3. 3. Go to File | Import | Import Video.

  4. 4. Click Browse, navigate to the video file of your choice (such as short.flv), and hit Choose/OK.

  5. 5. Leave Load external video with playback component selected. This is the best choice if sound is involved in your video and also helps with load time.

  6. 6. Click...