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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


Images are a major part of almost every site. In this chapter, we show you ways to share individual images and collections of images as thumbnails, galleries, and slideshows using WordPress plugins or working in Flash.

Two concepts we will be working with are DRM and XML:

  • DRM stands for Digital Rights Management or Digital Restrictions Management. DRM is a strategy that limits how people can use your content. Anything you put on a public website is potentially up for grabs, so the best strategy is to share only what you want to be made publicly available. The watermarking of images, the compositing of a copyright (image or text) onto an image, is a common DRM strategy. We will show you how to watermark images using a WP (WordPress) plugin or in Flash.

    Knowing how to give proper credit for images that are not your own is also essential. The MLA standard for citing a website includes the following:

  • We suggest you do not use the carats when publishing online (as it conflicts with...