WordPress.com Forums » Tag: swf files - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/swf-files WordPress.com Forums » Tag: swf files - Recent Posts en Mon, 20 May 2013 21:19:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 storyboard4 on "Videopress supported formats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/videopress-supported-formats#post-1181083 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:44:51 +0000 storyboard4 1181083@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, that was useful; particularly the gigya link. However, when I'm told that all I need to do is change the embed code to a shortcode I'm afraid I wouldn't know where to start. The gigya advice seems to contradict the "official" line that Flash files/objects can't be used. Is the simplest way to have a short animation on a page (not a post) to upgrade to Videopress and upload a .mov file?
Thanks, in anticpation

]]> timethief on "Videopress supported formats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/videopress-supported-formats#post-1180602 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:06:44 +0000 timethief 1180602@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Flash embeds are not allowed, with the exception of some specific shortcodes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
For a Flash workaround see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

]]> timethief on "Videopress supported formats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/videopress-supported-formats#post-1180601 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:05:37 +0000 timethief 1180601@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ accepted file types > http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/#video

]]> storyboard4 on "Videopress supported formats?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/videopress-supported-formats#post-1180593 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:59:41 +0000 storyboard4 1180593@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't want to purchase a Videopress upgrade only to find that they don't handle Adobe Flash .swf files. I can't seem to find a list of supported formats; someone just wants my money. Any clues please ...

]]> timethief on "Video in a swf slide presentation" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-in-a-swf-slide-presentation#post-1170082 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:07:25 +0000 timethief 1170082@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry but the only accepted file types are found listed here http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/

]]> elisahmendes on "Video in a swf slide presentation" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/video-in-a-swf-slide-presentation#post-1169843 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:14:20 +0000 elisahmendes 1169843@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi
I have a swf slides presentation and when I upload to wordpress the url its working, ie, I can see all the slides.
However in one slide I have a video in flv format that doesnt play. Any idea how I can play this video in a swf format in wordpress?

]]> thistimethisspace on "how can I add SWF files on my wordpress.com blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-add-swf-files-on-my-wordpresscom-blog#post-1162893 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:41:40 +0000 thistimethisspace 1162893@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Flash embeds are not allowed, with the exception of some specific shortcodes. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
For a Flash workaround see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

]]> hturtkees on "how can I add SWF files on my wordpress.com blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-add-swf-files-on-my-wordpresscom-blog#post-1162888 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:38:43 +0000 hturtkees 1162888@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ i want to put swf files on my blog

]]> raincoaster on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1136057 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:30:01 +0000 raincoaster 1136057@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why not just use GIFs anyway?

]]> justpi on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1136053 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:23:22 +0000 justpi 1136053@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ To set things straight, "risky" means there's a security loophole in flash, and a hacker could take advantage of that loophole to create a malicious flash file. This particular file would be harmful when used. It doesn't mean that all flash files are a threat: the vast majority are innocent little things, and it's extremely unlikely that an app such as the Spiralaxis ticker (designed by an eponymous developer, available in many download sites, already downloaded and used by thousands of users over the past few years) would be malicious or harmful.

]]> raincoaster on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1135677 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:24:23 +0000 raincoaster 1135677@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The fact that they are generating the flash means they control the security. When you seek to add code from elsewhere to your blog here, you introduce potential risks to all blogs using the same theme as you.

]]> notawoodpecker on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1135668 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:14:25 +0000 notawoodpecker 1135668@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ They also pay very high rates for hosting and tech support.

]]> raincoaster on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1135651 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:57:16 +0000 raincoaster 1135651@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ They are indeed risky. Major news organizations take stupid risks all the time.

]]> kankakeegazette on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1135640 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:43:14 +0000 kankakeegazette 1135640@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @notawoodpecker. I didn't know that flash files are risky for an individual site. I thought the risk was associated with letting a million people upload to your shared-hosting business and using up lots of your bandwidth.

Are they risky to one website linking to another? If that's the case, I wonder why so many large newspapers in the country post their news ticker code so you can link to them from your little website?
Wouldn't they stop if they'd been hacked for years? Who knows, maybe not!

Thank you for mentioning this.

Joanie

]]> notawoodpecker on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1135617 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:17:05 +0000 notawoodpecker 1135617@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Most other sites you can upload to say they don't support .swf files or you can only view on their site.

Google also has blocked external links from flash files uploaded to their blogs. Security risk and uses lots of bandwidth?

You should heed their advice.

If you insist on doing things that you have been advised are risky and annoying, pay for a web hosting account and host the files yourself.

]]> kankakeegazette on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1135605 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:02:14 +0000 kankakeegazette 1135605@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @Panos (justpi) Thank you! I originally thought that Spiralaxis was going to host. They have no suggestions for where I can upload the file. I've contacted a friend who has a self-hosted website to see if that's a possibility.

Since I received your reply, I've devoted many hours looking for a storage site, like Box.com. Box Content Preview seems to support previewing .swf on an external site as I understand it. But when I posted the shortcode, a message appeared that they are working on it and referred me to view it on Box.com. Most other sites you can upload to say they don't support .swf files or you can only view on their site.

Do you know a storage site that I can upload to and then run the ticker on my blog? At this point I'd pay if I could find some place. Google also has blocked external links from flash files uploaded to their blogs. Security risk and uses lots of bandwidth?

I used the shortcode to run another newspaper's ticker and it works fine. So if I ever find somewhere to upload my .swf file, I'm ready!

Thanks for your help!

Joanie

]]> justpi on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1131871 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:54:59 +0000 justpi 1131871@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ a) No, you cannot use the other files.
b) The gigya shortcode is just a formula for the WP editor; it translates into an iframe. So when I view the sourcecode of your page I see the iframe, not the shortcode. But from the iframe code I can tell that your shortcode won't work. For one thing, there's no URL for the flash file: the flash file has to be uploaded somewhere.

]]> kankakeegazette on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1131849 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:20:27 +0000 kankakeegazette 1131849@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @panos (justpi)
MyWordpress.com site is kankakeegazette.com. I have the CSS upgrade.

I spent last weekend reading all your posts about flash and shortcodes. And here you are commenting! I found a professional flash news ticker (no dancing text) but it has XML. Spiralaxis.com Flash News Ticker Component ver. 1.0.0. My converted shortcode is currently in the bottom widget in the secondary sidebar so you can see it.

I don’t know how to put the other three files on my WordPress.com site – maybe not allowed. Is it possible to make this work or do I keep looking? The program itself does work when I open the html file housed in my computer documents.

Thanks for all your tips! Joanie

]]> justpi on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1131048 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:52:44 +0000 justpi 1131048@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @Jerry: WP says you cannot, but this was never the case. See these posts of mine:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/list-of-posts/4/

]]> justjennifer on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1130795 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:25:00 +0000 justjennifer 1130795@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Since your site is Private we can't see what theme you're using, but many of the newer themes, have Featured Post Sliders which can do what you want.

See here: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/post-slider/

]]> notawoodpecker on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1130787 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:13:21 +0000 notawoodpecker 1130787@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Dunno for sure, but I can tell you I block Flash animations and most other things that move on web pages.

]]> coloradooutdoorsmag on "Using flash or animated banners" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-flash-or-animated-banners#post-1130781 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:07:33 +0000 coloradooutdoorsmag 1130781@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello,

As of early last year, I was told that you cannot use flash or animated banners for wordpress.com sites.

I'm just curious is this is still the case, as I'd like to make by blog a bit "sexier" and exciting by installing a rotating flash banner.

Thanks,

Jerry

]]> timethief on "Embedding a small magazine URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-a-small-magazine-url#post-1101483 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:42:09 +0000 timethief 1101483@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Flash embeds are not allowed, with the exception of some specific shortcodes. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
For a Flash workaround see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

]]> jeffreygwebb on "Embedding a small magazine URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-a-small-magazine-url#post-1101481 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:40:04 +0000 jeffreygwebb 1101481@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am trying to embed the following code that places a copy of a URL to a magazine where I have an article (it's our local church magazine - no copyright issues). The following is the code:

<div><object style="width:420px;height:272px" ><param name="movie" value="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf?mode=mini&embedBackground=%23000000&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=121129162111-093c3d730f1d40a8b16ddc99065024c1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" menu="false" wmode="transparent" style="width:420px;height:272px" flashvars="mode=mini&embedBackground=%23000000&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=121129162111-093c3d730f1d40a8b16ddc99065024c1" /></object><div style="width:420px;text-align:left;">Open publication - Free publishing - More calvary church</div></div>

So How do I do it? or Can I?

]]> justpi on "How to install swf files on WP ?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-install-swf-files-on-wp#post-1030771 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:55:45 +0000 justpi 1030771@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Flash files can be inserted, if they are hosted somewhere online.

No multimedia file can be directly uploaded and displayed. WP accepts uploading PPT files, but cannot display them directly in a post, it can only display a link to the file. To actually display such a file in a post, you'd have to upload it to Scribd or Issuu first.

]]> jiorns on "How to install swf files on WP ?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-install-swf-files-on-wp#post-1030695 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:56:57 +0000 jiorns 1030695@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thanks notawoodpecker .... nice blog by the way.

What is the preferred multumedia file format for WP?

]]> notawoodpecker on "How to install swf files on WP ?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-install-swf-files-on-wp#post-1030639 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:55:47 +0000 notawoodpecker 1030639@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Flash is unsafe and presents serious security vulnerabilities, therefore .swf files cannot be used here.

]]> jiorns on "How to install swf files on WP ?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-install-swf-files-on-wp#post-1030623 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:48:13 +0000 jiorns 1030623@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have some sample e-learning pieces that are processed as .swf files. They're interactive so I intend that viewers will interact with the files too.

I would like to embed these files in my WP pages. So far, I can't see how WP will accept files in the .swf format.

Guidance welcome from you experts!

Janette

]]> raincoaster on "Why I can´t upload SWF files?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-i-can%c2%b4t-upload-swf-files#post-977646 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:19:42 +0000 raincoaster 977646@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Because they're not secure, and at WP.com we share the backbones of our blogs, so it would be a security risk to everyone using the same theme.

]]> clabbohotel on "Why I can´t upload SWF files?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-i-can%c2%b4t-upload-swf-files#post-977598 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:42:39 +0000 clabbohotel 977598@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why I can´t upload SWF files?
Blog url: http://cchotel2.wordpress.com/

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