November 2008
4 posts
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Flash video without YouTube
I’ve mentioned recently using the JW Flash Media Player and the associated Wordpress plugin to enable easy embedding of Flash videos in Wordpress.
Our corporate network is - ahem - somewhat antiquated, and I was having problems getting the JW Flash Media Player to work properly on our machines. Turns out that we’re on and older version of Flash (7, rather than 8 or 9) and this seemed...
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Retaining blog readers with email: Subscribe2 and...
If you do stuff with WordPress, then there are two plug-ins you should definitely include in your toolkit: Subscribe2 and Subscribe-to-comments. The bottom line is: despite the advantages, few people use RSS, and few people remember to revisit your site to monitor comment threads and new postings. Email is still king.
Subscribe2 is a pretty fully-featured email subscription tool. You drop a...
WP-FLV: flash video in Wordpress
I was looking for a nice way to embed videos for an internal Wordpress blog. So hosting videos on YouTube wasn’t an option.
The WP-FLV plug-in is a single file plug-in for Wordpress which lets you add a <flv> tag into your posts referencing the video you want to embed. This then calls the JW Flash Media Player and presents a nice embedded player.
Tip: Wordpress is pretty strict...
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Sphider: PHP site search
I was looking for a site search tool to run on PHP and MySQL, and didn’t just want to use Google Custom Search.
Sphider is nice: crawls your site (clean, uncluttered admin interface is a bit like a Google Mini), and has a simple, customisable template for results, and works fast. It also has ‘Did you mean?’ suggestions to help correct typos in users’ queries.
You can set...