=== Plugin Name === Contributors: EdHynan Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4Q2Y8ZUG8HXLC Tags: video, audio, movies, tube, flash, graphics, webcam, movie, cat videos, audio-visual, a/v content Requires at least: 3.0.2 Tested up to: 3.5.2 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv3 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html SWFPut provides a flash video player for posts and a widget and the forms to configure instances with a video source and playback attributes. == Description == SWFPut is a plugin for the popular WordPress weblog software. It provides a video player program for the flash plugin and the means to configure an instance with a video source and playback attributes. There are two separate com- ponents: the flash video player, and the WordPress plugin proper. The video player is delivered to site visitors by the plugin in the traditional block with the necessary arguments. Flash video objects may be placed in posts and pages, or in the widget areas supported by your theme (i.e., the plugin includes a widget). Video is placed in posts and pages with a shortcode; if you do not know what a shortcode is, or do not want to deal with them, that's no problem. (In fact, it is preferable that the shortcodes not be hand-edited, and they will not be discussed in detail here.) The plugin adds to the administrative interface a full featured form to setup and add, or edit, or delete video objects, so the user does not need to be troubled with shortcodes (they will be visible in the editor; you will get used to them). The flash video widget has a similar full featured form. The plugin does not add any JavaScript to the pages generated for your visitors, which might be helpful if you try to keep your pages useful to those who disable JavaScript in their browsers. (Such visitors might need to explicitly enable the flash web browser plugin, but that is another, unavoidable, issue.) JavaScript is used in the administrative interface for the forms and manipulation of shortcodes in the editor; but of course you must have JavaScript enabled when you log in to your WordPress site -- this does not affect your visitors. (Note that the SWFPut video player has been coded to work well with the free Gnash web browser plugin, as well as the closed binary-only proprietary version in common use. As of this writing, Gnash does not handle MP4 files well, even though it handles H.264 video and AAC audio if they are in an FLV container file.) == Installation == SWFPut is installed through the WordPress administrative interface. 1 Fetch the SWFPut zip file; save it on your computer 1 Log in at your WordPress site 1 Select 'Plugins -> Add New' 1 Select 'Upload' 1 Select 'Browse' 1 In your system's file selector, select the SWFPut zip file; select 'OK' or equivalent 1 Select 'Install Now' 1 Select 'Activate Plugin' At this point "SWFlash Put" should be an entry on the plugins page. The Settings menu should have an item "SWFPut Plugin". If the above is not so, there is probably a problem at your site's host; for example if the host is Unix system there is very likely a problem with incorrect permissions metadata (mode) on a directory such as wp-content/uploads, or an unsuitable user or group ownership of (probably several) files and directories. This can be a frequent problem if the host has PHP configured in "safe mode". If the host is not a Unix system, I'm sorry to say I cannot help; maybe your hosting provider can. If the installation was successful, you should see a "SWFPut Flash Video" widget under 'Appearance -> Widgets' and a form entitled "SWFPut Flash Video Shortcode" on the posts and pages editing pages. For additional help, you will find README* files (differing in format, and excluding 'readme.txt', which is this file) that discuss the flash video player in more detail. == Frequently Asked Questions == = How many questions have been asked frequently = See below. = How many questions have been asked in all = At the time of this writing, 0 (zero). The time of this writing is the time of preparation for initial release, so that amount should not seem too small. Of course, this answer might be present here until the next release, and it might have happened that questions have been asked in the interim, and so 0 might not really be an accurate figure. = How many questions have been answered in all = Three more than have been asked. At the time of this writing. == Screenshots == TBA == Changelog == = 1.0 = * Initial release. == Upgrade Notice == = 1.0 = None as yet. == Arbitrary section == Coming: media preparation resources.