Category: medias
Slideshows using WordPress Gallery Slideshow
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3753 visitsHere’s another plugin that enables slideshow integration. Compared to Nextgen, it focuses on the slideshow function. Its author decided to keep it simple and efficient, as it is able to integrate photos from the blog as well as pictures from flickr, picasa… Read more…
Integration of a google calendar
This plugin was developed by google themselves in order to display your “google calendar” in your wordpress blog… Read more…
The lightbox plugin to view pictures
With WordPress you can insert images into articles, and in particular reduced versions when they’re too large (see this article to learn how to parameter image size).
In order to see the image in actual size, you can add a link in the image editor to the image’s file, that will open in the same window or in a new one. As you want.
This is not very convenient compared to everything a lightbox can do… Read more…
Random generator of guitar rhythms
This plugin will add a new widget, with a random guitar rhythm inside. It can display up to 625 differents rhythms. Guitarists may find new rhythms and beginners new exercises. Since version 0.2, the content can be refreshed without reloading the page.
The plugin will give you only the rhythm, it’s up to you to choose the chords.
See what the plugin does:
4 beats rhythm
Embedding Dailymotion video
To avoid making anybody jealous, here’s an embedding example using the Dailymotion site. The method is the same as with youtube, so you copy and paste embed code (“Exportable player”) in your article after you’ve switched to HTML. Read more…
Integrating Apture into your pages
Apture is an external service that lets you add multimedia contents to your blog very easily: wikipedia exerpts, press cuttings, photos, music, videos, google maps… Note that this system works with any type of site, whether a blog, cms, or not. Read more…
Flickr widget
The flickr widget (developed by the wordpress guys) allows you to show, in the sidebar, an rss feed of pictures sourced by flickr. Read more…
Inserting flash animations
With Wordpress 2.7’s editor you can natively integrate flash animations (swf) in your articles.
Insert a google map in your post
If you’ve got a google account, you can create personal maps with its maps service, available on http://maps.google.com
To insert your personal map into your website, google maps gives you an iframe code you must copy in your page, if you run your own site. For security reasons, wordpress doesn’t accept inclusion of iframes in posts, but a plug-in makes it possible and it does it for you… Read more…
Autostart with object and embed
When you insert a video, wmv for example, you will notice that wordpress introduces the object and embed tags. If you do not wish the video to start automatically, you can see that it works with Explorer but not with Firefox…
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