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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

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


Image sharing is a key feature of many sites. Flickr is a popular and convenient tool to use to organize and share photos. The Flickr Photo Album plugin makes it easy to display your photos from Flickr on your WP blog.

Three advantages of this plugin are that you can do the following:

  • Create a WP image gallery from Flickr so users will not have to leave your site to see your Flickr photos

  • Insert Flickr galleries in posts or pages via handy WYSIWYG buttons

  • Insert Flickr images in a sidebar

Getting ready

The plugin can be installed using the Plugins | Add New section of the WP admin interface and searching for "Flickr Photo Album." Alternatively, you can download the plugin from its homepage: http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/

Update your permalinks, otherwise the plugin will not work (seeChapter 2,Configuring WP for maximum SEO).

Make sure to have your Flickr login and password handy.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Install and...