The WordPress is definitely rich in plugins. Talking about the image plugins we must think of importing the images from Facebook to our blog.
Here I am going to give information about a facebook photo plugin. This is so easy to use, as soon as you link the plugin to your Facebook account, photos you upload to Facebook will automatically show up in a convenient “Photos” tab in your WordPress blog. You can choose to use either small, medium, or large sized versions of your photos. This plugin uses the recently released Facebook Developers Platform.
Author: Joe Tan
License: GPL
Features:
- Automatically retrieves photos and albums you upload into your Facebook. No need to upload twice.
- Retrieve photos where you have been tagged by either yourself or your friends.
- Allows you to easily blog your Facebook photos.
- Choose from three different sizes: small, medium, or large
Requirements:
Both PHP 5.0 and WordPress 2.1 + are required in order for this plugin to work. To use this plugin you’ll need to run your own WordPress installation.
Installation:
- Download and unzip the plugin.
- Upload the entire “tantan” directory to the WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.
- Login to your WordPress admin, click “Plugins”, and then activate the “Facebook Photos” plugin.
- Click “Options”, and click “Facebook” to bring up the options screen.
- Follow the directions given on that page to link the plugin to your Facebook account.
- You’re done! You should now see a “Photos” tab when you create new posts or pages. Just click on a photo and select a size (small, medium, large) to insert it into your post.
WordPress being a popular blogging platform and content management system, it can also be used for powering e-commerce websites.
The flexibility of WordPress has always been its strong point. You can find the Reasons to use WordPress as the platform for your site.
Easy availability of thousands of Plugins and support are one of the reason behind success of WordPress. In case if you find trouble with then don’t panic because there are hundred thousands of developers for your support via forums, blog posts. But wait, there are thousands of plugins in WordPress Plugin directory; Do you need them all? Simple answer is NO. The selection of plugin depends on the requirement of the project. For e.g; I use WP125 plugin for ads et cetera.
I am making a list of plugins that I use frequently in my most of the projects and recommend buyers to use.
I was just checking in for WordPress plugin for embedding video for one of my client. And I came with the following cool plugin list. All of these plugin allows to embed videos from sites like YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, Metacafe and many others; in very easy way.
1. Viper’s Video Quicktags
This plugin adds on new buttons to the rich text editor on WordPress. In order to embed a video, you just need to paste the video URL into the prompt box. With this plugin you can also fully configure the width, height, colors and alignment on the page.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/
2. FLV Embed
This plugin supports video sitemap generation, includes options such as auto start and menu control bar. It also supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flv-embed/
3. Interactive Video Plugin
Apart from video embed this plugin also includes the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor. You can even enable video responses, manage and track your video content.
Includes custom sizing of the video player, advanced sharing options and allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kaltura-interactive-video/
4. Flash Video Player
This plugin allows the addition of videos into WordPress by using a menu with post-level overrides for customization of size, background color etc. Give up your style wishes once, and you never ever have to manually style a video again.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flash-video-player/
5. Video Embedder
To embed a video using this plugin, all you need is the ID of the video. With this plugin you can manage the settings for all of your embedded movies from the WordPress settings for Video Embedder, the properties for all the movies will be updated instantly as soon as you save the settings.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-embedder/
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