WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook

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.

Wordpress and Flash 10x Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

Preface

Free Chapter

Leveraging Flash in WordPress

Developing a strategy to use Flash & WordPress

Embedding Flash .swf files in WordPress

Adding Flash detection with SWFObject 2.x

Adding Flash detection with Flash-generated JavaScript

WordPress: Configuration and Core Plugins

Introduction

Inputting content in the Visual Editor

Extending the Visual Editor with plugins

Inputting content via the HTML Editor

Editing theme template files in the Theme Editor

Configuring WP for maximum SEO

Using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin

Using the SEO Title Tags plugin (Version 2.3.3)

Using the Breadcrumb NavXT plugin (Version 3.2.1)

Use Google Analytics in WordPress

Backing up your site

Image Galleries and Slideshows—Using Plugins and Flash

Introduction

Importing your photos from Flickr: Simple Flickr plugin (Version 1.1)

Using lightbox effects: WordPress Multibox plugin (Version 1.3.8)

Creating effects in Flash

Using Flash to create watermarks

Image thumbnails, galleries, and watermarking: NextGen gallery plugin (Version 1.3.5)

Building an image gallery in Flash in the timeline

Building an image gallery in Flash with XML

Adding slideshows: Featured Content Gallery plugin (Version 3.2.0)

Building a basic slideshow in Flash in the timeline

Building a slideshow in Flash with XML

Video Blogging + Flash Video Encoding, Skinning, and Components

Introduction

FLV Embed (Version 1.2.1)

WebTV plugin (Version 0.6)

Free WP Tube (Version 1.0)

Encoding with the Adobe Media Encoder

Using preset skins

Using Video Component buttons to customize your skin

Working with Audio—Using Plugins and Flash

Introduction

WPAudio Player plugin (Version 1.5.2)

µAudio plugin (Version 0.6.2)

PodPress plugin (Version 8.8.1)

Using buttons in the Common Library

Adding sound effects to a button

Adding sound effects to the timeline

Streaming sound and coding a simple On/Off music button

Designing your own stylish MP3 player

Coding your own stylish MP3 player

Flash Applications

Introduction

WP-Cumulus (Version 1.22)

Tagnetic Poetry plugin (Version 1.0)

Flexi Quote Rotator plugin (Version 0.1.3)

Creating a custom Quote Rotator using XML

WP sIFR (Version 0.6.8.1)

XML Google Maps plugin (Version 1.12.1)

Integrating Google Maps into your Flash document

Datafeedr Random Ads V2 (Version 2.0)

WP Flash Feed Scroll Reader (Version 1.1.0)

Flash Themes

Introduction

CSS

Template files and theme structure

Template tags

Customizing Kubrik

Flash Animations

Introduction

Creating a shape tween

Creating a classic tween

Creating a motion tween

Using the Motion Editor

Using motion presets

Animating with the Bone tool

Animating inside movie clips

Creating a button

WordPress Resources

Flash Resources

Shortcut Keys

WordPress Visual Editor keyboard shortcuts

WordPress HTML Editor keyboard shortcuts

WordPress Comment Moderation keyboard shortcuts

Flash keyboard shortcuts

Windows keyboard shortcuts

Mac keyboard shortcuts

Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Site Planning

Goals

SEO Planning

Functional Requirements

Aesthetic Requirements

Site Outline

Customer Reviews

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

About the Authors

Peter Spannagle is a WordPress consultant, technology trainer, and Web 2.0 designer. His skills include client-side coding, graphic and web design, and SEO. He also offers online marketing, training, and support services. With twelve years experience as a technology contractor, he will help you meet your goals and strives to exceed your expectations.

His professional experience includes working as the Manager of Marketing and Online Services for Youth Service California and as a Quality Rater for Google. He was also fortunate to work as part of the fabrication team for Sky Mirror (a thirty-ton stainless steel sculpture) designed by Anish Kapoor and built by Performance Structures, which debuted at the Rockefeller Center in 2006.

YourCustomBlog.com (YCB) began in 2007 to provide quality WordPress consulting services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past three years, YCB has grown to servicing clients around the country and around the world.

YCB contract clients include: Singularity Hub, Sharam, The Hidden World of Girls (for the Kitchen Sisters, a segment on NPR Morning Edition), Street Soldiers Radio (on 106 KMEL San Francisco), Ustream.TV, Innovation Center Denmark (Silicon Valley), San Francisco Dream Wedding Giveaway, Legal Services for Children, The Children and Nature Network and the San Francisco Day School.

Visit my website: http://yourcustomblog.com or contact me at:< [email protected]>

Sarah Soward develops curriculum for and teaches the Adobe Creative Suite and design theory at the Bay Area Video Coalition (http://www.bavc.org). She has over five years experience as a technology trainer and is Adobe Certified. She specializes in creating web and print collateral for small businesses and non-profits. She is the Art Director for The Pagan Alliance, a non-profit organization, and a working fine artist (oil painting and drawing). In addition to teaching Flash, she is also an expert in the use of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. You can reach her at< sarahsoward.com> and< rhinotopia.com>

My Flash experience and teaching experience have come from a variety of sources. I certainly could not have done any of this without Adobe and their wonderful resources for ActionScript and Flash CS4. On that note, thanks also to Abigail Rudner. She demystified ActionScript 2.0 for me when I was first learning Flash and made my SWF’s functional as well as fun.

Rose Adare gets a huge thank you for putting me on this path with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and technology training in general. She taught me how to teach. That skill is one of the most valuable pieces of my life.

Thank you to BAVC for believing in me and keeping me and my quirky handouts around all these years.

Of course, my profs @ The California College of the Arts get props.

My Mom. I know it isn’t a complete sentence. It says all it needs to say: My Mom. It’s like stop(); can be this.stop(); but may not need all the extra characters to be just perfect even if it is more thorough.

Happy expressions of gratitude go out to Chris O’Sullivan, Michele Jones, their living room floor, and gluten-free donuts. Kristie Bulleit Niemeier and her dissertation progress postings get a nod as well.

Thanks to every client who ever insisted that I make something cool for them.

Finally, thanks to the man who shared this project with me: Peter Spannagle. He makes a mean cup of tea.

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