Tag: plugins

  • I’m playing with GitHub and Gist

    I’m playing with GitHub and Gist. Looks like a good place to store my plugins and snippets. Check out “Projects” in the menu.

  • Starting a Blog — Multimedia Content Plugins

    I use a couple of WordPress plugins to assist in displaying multimedia content on Impolite Company and blogan.net.

    • Audio player. Audio player creates an inline player for mp3 files. Using it is simple:

      [audio:hillarylaugh.mp3]

      [audio:https://brentlogan.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/hillarylaugh.mp3]

      The filename after “audio:” is either in a defined directory on your web host or can be an absolute web address to anywhere on the Internet. Remember, hot linking to someone else’s mp3 file is bad form.

    • Easy tube. Easy tube embeds a YouTube video in a post. Using it is similar to audioplayer:

      [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXAH3WVhhwg]

      The web address after “youtube:” is the YouTube address of the video, that is, the address that shows in your browser’s address bar.

    Both plugins can be used in WordPress’ visual editor or HTML editor — neither converts the square brackets to anything else.

    What plugins do you use to help display multimedia content on your blog?

    Next up: stopping spam.

    Update. I’m now using Viper’s Video Quicktags to display YouTube and other videos.

    Update 2. Embedding of videos is being added to the WordPress core for version 2.9 — no plugin needed.

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