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 about stripping out what it sees as dodgy code from the WYSIWYG editor. So if you want to allow the page/post to remain editable but don’t want to have the suspicious-looking <flv> element stripped out, change the following line in wp-flv.php:
preg_match_all (‘!<flv([^>]*)[ ]*[/]*>!i’, $content, $matches);
to:
preg_match_all (‘!\[flv([^>]*)[ ]*[/]*\]!i’, $content, $matches);
and instead of:
<flv href=’link/to/vid.flv’ autostart=’true’ />
use the following snippet in your post:
[flv href=’link/to/vid.flv’ autostart=’true’ /]
