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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

WP sIFR (Version 0.6.8.1)


The following section talks about the WP sIFR plugin.

Getting ready...

You are probably aware that web pages use a limited set of fonts. Your word processing program allows you to choose from a wide variety of fonts—as many as are installed on your computer. So why can't you use these fonts on your web page? Since a web page needs to be available to users with many different system configurations, there is no way to be sure which fonts they have installed. The solution has been to use a set of web only fonts that are standard on all systems.

New solutions are in place today to deliver rich typography on the Web, including fonts outside of the standard web-only font families. In this section, we'll explore sIFR, or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement. This new technology uses Flash to recreate and replace text you've tagged to be "sIFRed." WP sIFR allows you to use custom fonts on your WP blog. WP sIFR version 0.6.8.1 is authored by Jake Snyder. The plugin homepage is...