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.
Embed SWF files with the Kimili plugin
Add Flash Detection when you embed a SWF without a plugin
Configure WordPress and maximize search engine optimization
Use the Flickr plugin and WordPress Multibox plugin for your images
Create your own effects, watermarks, image gallery, and slideshow from scratch with Flash
Use the NextGen Gallery plugin for image thumbnails, watermarking, and galleries
Embed FLV files in WordPress
Set up video blogging using WebTV Plugin and the Free WP Tube Theme
Encode video files with the Adobe Media Encoder
Use the audio plugins WPAudio Player, µAudio, and PodPress
Add sound effects to a button and the timeline in Flash
Stream sound and create/code your own On/Off music button and an MP3 player
Using preset Flash skins
Create a Custom Quote Rotator using XML and ActionScript in Flash
Use and configure these plugins: WP-Cumulus Plugin, Tagnetic Poetry Plugin, Flexi Quote Rotator Plugin, WP sIFR Plugin, XML Google Maps Plugin, Datafeedr Random Ads Plugin, and WP Flash Feed Scroll Reader Plugin
Customize WordPress themes
Create animations and buttons in Flash