How to add flash to your WordPress blog

I was building a website (georgiaspetsitting.com) that needed to have a flash slideshow on it.  I was making it with WordPress and figured there had to be a Plugin already created for doing this.  Of course there was!  It’s called Flashfader.

The install is easy but be careful to read the directions closely.  Most WordPress plugins are placed into their own folders so I assumed that this one could also be placed into a folder.  Well, I was wrong.  The instructions are to put the files directly in the “<website root>/wp-content/plugins/” folder.

This plugin will can only be deployed using php code.  Therefore,  in order to use this plugin in a widget you need another plugin (executable PHP widget), which I have blogged about “How to add PHP code to a WordPress widget“.

Unfortunately, there can only be 1 flash per WordPress site with this plugin.

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