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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

Building an image gallery in Flash in the timeline


If ActionScript is not necessarily your strong suit, you can cut down on the amount of coding you do by utilizing the timeline in Flash's design interface. In this exercise, you will import a sequence of images and create previous and next navigation buttons.

If you would like to see a preview of the completed gallery, open gallery_timeline.fla in theChapter 3 folder.

Getting ready

Have more than one image ready to use. Ideally, the images should be named sequentially so that import is as easy as possible. Also, it is best if the images have the same dimensions so that the shift between each is not jarring. You may also use the sequential files in theChapter 3 images folder for this lesson.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Create a new file: File | New. Select Flash File (ActionScript 3.0).

  2. 2. Rename Layer 1 as images.

  3. 3. Select the key frame on the images layer. Create a movie clip symbol. Insert | New Symbol (tAlt/Op F8)). Select Movie clip, name it mc_slides...