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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

Free WP Tube (Version 1.0)


Free WP Tube is a free video blogging theme that uses custom fields to display videos and metadata. All you need is the embed code if the video is hosted on another site. You can also use the FLV Embed plugin to display video that you host inside a Flash video player. Free WP Tube is shown below:

Download the installation package from http://www.freewptube.com/.

Getting ready

When you unzip the theme package, you will have a folder called wptube. Inside, find the folder named plugins. Free WP Tube is designed to use three plugins which are included in the zipped theme package:

  • WP-PageNavi

  • WP-PostViews

  • WP-PostRatings

Upload these files to your wp-content/plugins folder, and activate each.

The entire wptube folder (minus the plugins folder) then need to be uploaded to wp-content/themes.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Activate the theme by clicking on Appearance | Themes and choosing the WP Tube theme.

  2. 2. Visit the theme configuration page. Look for a new menu at the bottom of your...