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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

Template files and theme structure


Once you have an understanding of the CSS basics, getting familiar with the files that make up your theme is the next step.

Getting ready

We've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating that there are no "pages" (in the sense of a single static, tables-based HTML page) in a PHP-driven site like WordPress. All of the data that you add to WordPress (including posts, pages, comments, and users ) is added to the MySQL database. The data is filtered through a theme along with the help of plugins to create a website with different pages. But each page is made up of several different pieces. Within a theme, common elements (such as the header, footer, and sidebar) exist as separate PHP template files. These pieces are combined and served based on the theme structure and according to actions taken by a user (such as clicking or searching).

On the front end, your users are able to navigate to (and bookmark) URLs that seem a lot like pages. However, hopefully...