| There are many reasons why people want to add | | | | flash video on your website, some are better than |
| Flash videos to their WordPress blog sites. Maybe | | | | others and some are more user friendly. WP-FLV is |
| they want to introduce their website and products to | | | | one, FLV Embed is another and WordTube is the one |
| their visitors, use as a training aid, show a webinar or | | | | that we will be using here. Visit the site, read up on |
| simply show the new baby to distant relatives. What | | | | the plugin and download it. Unpack the zip file and |
| ever reason, website videos are used more and | | | | upload the folder into the WordPress plugins folder. |
| more every day. | | | | Note do not change the folder names. You will also |
| If you have a real estate agency what could be | | | | need the free, for personal use, Flash Media Player |
| better than a walk through tour of a property, a | | | | from Jeroen Wijering. Download the player from the |
| walk through of a yacht if you are a yacht broker or | | | | website, unzip it and upload only the mediaplayer.swf |
| tours of sports clubs, hotels, workshops or what | | | | file into the wordtube folder. Activate the plugin. |
| ever product you want potential customers to see. | | | | Go to your admin area, then Options, Manage, |
| You can hardly visit YouTube or Google Video to find | | | | WordTube to set up the options. You can use the |
| a video about your hotel or sports club, you will have | | | | default upload folder or change it to another such as |
| to make your own video or have it made for you. | | | | wp-content/videos. You can upload your files via |
| But let's not talk about hotels and sports clubs, lets | | | | Manage-Media Center. Note for streaming videos the |
| talk about you and the eBook or software program | | | | Flash player will not show a preview, therefore you |
| that you want to promote which is the reason lots | | | | need also to upload a image (thumbnail) file. After |
| of us have. | | | | uploading your video you can insert the tag |
| To get Flash video up and running we need to | | | | (MEDIA=ID) into your post where you wish the |
| download some files and prepare our site. So lets get | | | | embedded Flash video to be displayed. ID is the |
| started now. | | | | number of the video in the Media Centre. Make sure |
| Step One: Preparing your site. | | | | that you use UPPER case otherwise it will not work. |
| There are several plugins available for embedding | | | | |