Archive for October, 2010

Step 1 – Publish your project as a SWF

Step 2 – Open your WordPress site and go to your Dashboard

Step 3 – Create a Page or Post

Step 4 – Click the “Add Media” button, then click the “Select File” button

Step 5 – Browse to the folder containing your project files. Click the .SWF file, then click Add

Step 6 – After the file uploads, click the Insert into Post button.

Step 7 – Copy and paste the template code used to embed the Flash movie:

<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab” width=”640” height=”511” id=”project”>

<param name=”movie” value=”http://yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/homework.swf” />
<embed src=”http://yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/homework.swf” width=”640” height=”511” name=”project” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer” />

</object>

Step 8 – Replace the URL in the embed code (highlighted in red) with the swf’s URL. Update the height and width if they differ.

Step 9 – Preview the page or post and test the Flash movie

Step 10 – Publish the page or post.