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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

WP Flash Feed Scroll Reader (Version 1.1.0)


The following section talks about the WP Flash Feed Scroll Reader plugin.

Getting ready...

The Flash Feed Scroll Reader allows you to share an RSS feed with your users in a unique format—as a horizontal scrolling Flash animation. Setup and configuration is a snap. Styling is fully customizable, using CSS and XHTML. Version 1.1.0 is authored by Giovambattista Fazioli. The plugin homepage is: http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flash-feed-scroll-reader/

How to do it...

  1. 1. Download and install the plugin by going to Plugins | Add New and search for "flash feed."

  2. 2. Click Install and Activate.

  3. 3. Visit the plugin configuration panel at Settings | WP Flash Scroll Feed Reader.

  4. 4. Enter the Feed URL to show the feed titles.

  5. 5. To show the content of each feed item, check the Show Feed Item Description box. Use the Max chars content to limit the amount of text displayed.

  6. 6. Review the settings for Width, Height, Scroll Speed, etc.

  7. 7. If you want to display...