I stumbled across a portage of wordpress in flash called flash-blog today. It looks very interesting and is exactly what I have been looking for. I have tried SWX, but it is still in alpha seems slow with a large database. You can check out Aral’s progress here. Allso there is Flashblog which seems promising.
Sajid Saiyed found a great way of reading wp xml data and displaying it through flash. His portfolio can be found here.
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Activating the wordpress plugin:
1.Copy the xml_output.php file to your wp-contents plugins folder.
2.Login to your wordpress admin site
3.Goto Plugins, activate the “WordPress XML output” plugin.
Installing FlashTheme for your wordpress installation.
1.Copy the entire ‘flashTheme’ folder to ‘wp-contents themes’ folder
2.Login to youe wordpress admin site
3. Go to ‘Presentation’ tab.
4. Click the ’ssdesigninteractive - FLASH 1′ theme called ‘My Flash Theme’.
PLEASE NOTE: After you activate the plugin and also activate the Flash Theme, when you try to go to the URL of your blog, you will see a BLANK SCREEN.
The reason for this is that the above changes make your blog return an XML file instead of an HTML file. So even if you see a BLANK SCREEN, if you view the source of the page, it will be an XML File.
Upload Flash Files:
- Before you copy the Flash files to your server, we need to make a small change in the FLA and republish it so that it matches the details of your server.
- Open the FLA file and go to the Second Frame actions.
- Find the line that says:
_ global . homeURL = ” http://localhost/wordpress_2/ ”
You have to modify this line so that the URL points to your wordpress installation (Location where you have installed wordpress)
Now you can publish the SWF file.
Once you have successfully completed the above steps, you can
then place the files contained in the ‘FlashBlog’ folder anywhere on your server.
Note: Best practice is to install wordpress inside a directory and place the flash files in the root.
Copy the email _ verify . php file in the ROOT location of your WORDPRESS INSTALLATION.
eg. If you installed wordpress in : yourURL.com/blog
then place the email _ verify in the same place
Go to the URL where you placed the FlashBlog files and point to the HTML file.
Installed a theme switcher to manage the changing styles. Thanks to Ryan Boren and Alex King
The non flash version can be viewed here.
Flash version can be viewed here
