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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

Introduction


InChapter 1, we outlined a strategy for using WordPress based on the relative strengths and weaknesses of WP and Flash. Boiling down the advantages of WP, we find that it's easy to update and (when used strategically) can help you get indexed in the major search engines for your targeted keywords and phrases. Flash is limitless with regards to design (though it takes time to become proficient with animation software), but a Flash site is not as well understood by robots and search engines. We introduced the use of two "views" in the WP dashboard—Visual Editor or HTML. Now, we look under the hood for more detail. It is not our intention to provide here a comprehensive guide to using WP, but instead to share some of our favorite tips and tricks for setting up WP as a CMS and for working with Flash. Also, we want to demonstrate ways of working with your site—both the content (posts and pages) and theme files. We review a number of plugins that extend the WordPress core to help...