Today I successfully completed my first Wordpress Plugin.

This plugin adds a FLASH quicktag to the post window in the wordpress admin section.

Features:

1. Adds a quicktag for adding FLASH .swf files
2. When clicked, it prompts you to add: File Path, Width, Height and BG color of your flash movie.
3. The Flash code added by the plugin is valid XHTML.

Installation:

1. Extract the files to your computer.
2. A "flqt" folder will be created with two files : flash_quicktag.php and needplugin.gif
3. Upload this "flqt" folder to your plugins folder inside the wordpress installation:
   Default location is : yoursite/wp-content/plugins
4. After uploading the files, login to your wordpress admin panel and activate the plugin.
5. Now go to the POST page and you should see a new button added called FLASH.

To do's:

1. Adding a custom form to fill these details instead of prompts.
2. Integrating a File Upload script, so that the user can select the file from their local hard drives.

Feature requests:
Please feel free to contact me using preferably comments or else the contact form about any feature requests.

Download:
Flash Quicktag Plugin (updated: 31 Oct 2005)

note: Due to few people reporting some problem, I have changed the name of the function so that it does not clash with some other plugin which might be using same function name. Atleast I think that is the reason why some people are not able to view the Quicktag.

Can you try this new download and let me know if this works fine?.

wow, this is the best interactive site I have seem with two browser interaction.

Samsung 3G

I want to see some more examples of websites using this kind of 2 browser window layout.

Today I migrated my blog to wordpress and also redesigned it a bit. I find it more flexible and well documented then MT.

Also I have now integrated my loose ends together . I was running may different things seperately which I have been able to harmonise now, my forum, blog, portfolio and shop.

note: for best results, view with firefox.

John Maeda is a professor at the MIT Media lab.

I dont know if others are aware of his blog on Simplicity.

This blog is specifically run by Maeda to discover the Laws of Simplicity.

He will terminate this blog when he reaches the 16th Law of Simplicity (I dont know why, but he is a strange guy :] )

So far he has discovered 10 Laws and they are worth reading. Some interesting thoughts there. You can find these laws listed on the right navigation panel of his blog.