A No-Plugin Alternative to Embed Flash in Wordpress
Lost in my recent Wordpress frenzy, I posted a rant about a recent fit of road rage that includes some simple Flash movies.
Without thinking, I started looking for a plugin. Something that would allow me to easily insert a flash movie, no fuss, no muss.
Now, I’m not an idiot when it comes to Internet technology, but I felt like one today. I couldn’t get any plugin to work properly for me:
I searched for everything… installed everything… and nothing!
I shared my frustration with my roommate, Mictubis (his alias, he’s very sneaky), and he wondered why I didn’t try to simply embed it. You know… without a plugin… just HTML.
Uh… DUH!
So… I quickly ran to video.google.com and modeled my embed code after theirs. Okay… I copied it. But here it is:
<embed style="width:500px; height:150px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="flashfile.swf" flashvars=""> </embed>
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January 31st, 2007 at 7:47 pm
*sigh* I got all excited when this came up on a search for embedding flash into a WordPress post, but it doesn’t seem to be working for me.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Talk to me… how can I help?
What does the code you’re using look like? Does it look like the markup I used on my “Learn How to Use the Center Turning Lane” article?
January 31st, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I’m an idiot! It was a conflict with a plug in. (And I totally agree about the left turn lane.)
March 13th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I too, am having lots of troubles with embedding any kind of swf file into my posts… very frustrating to say the least! I even tried the above code, and nothing. It just doesn’t want to show up. It just strips any kind of embed code out of the editor in Wordpress. I wish they would change that engine to allow an administrator to embed, used javascript, and any other kind of stuff in the HTML editor! Why haven’t they? I HATE that engine stripping stuff out and modifying my code…
April 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Anyway to link the file??
May 21st, 2008 at 3:25 am
Thanks! I’ve been looking for this for a long time - it’s really giving me headaches - I wonder if would work for YouTube?
Anyway this worked perfectly. I used
before andafter and it looks fine. It’s here if you want to see: http://customergauge.com/wordpress/?p=123