Gerald Speaks

This lady sharing her thoughts about the one world AIDS interactive exhibition at Times Square.

With this full fledge phone blogging feature. It means now I can now report about anything and everything on this site in real time. For example I can go for an outing, go for an event, attend a seminar, or simply anywhere, where there is a phone signal and take time off every 30 minutes to update the blog with the latest news, complete with photos from the scene without having a computer, and the whole world can read about it online. Good or good? This is totally awesome technology for up to the minute news reporting on any vent. And the advantage of doing that is that you keep the news fresh and up to date, written in a concise and factual manner.

This blog is going to get more awesome with sharing straight from my heart as now i can blog from my handphone which gives it a personal touch. That means i can write from anywhere and on anything and it will be clogged

---- 
Sent using a Sony Ericsson mobile phone

Been exploring Flickr the whole day tor this information, and finally got it.
Create your own Flickr badge

Step 1: What sort of badge would you like to use?

There are two types of badge to choose from: HTML or Flash. You will be able to select to display things from your own collection, one of your groups, or everyone's uploads. You can also filter any of these options by a tag, if you wish. (The examples below are set to show your photos.))


An HTML badge


A Flash badge

Been looking for a way to add tag clouds to my site. Finally this blog provided the answer. Check it out http://blog.achille.name/faqs-en/faqs-blogs/how-can-i-delicious-to-my-blog/

Rating: +0
Positive Negative

If you already have a del.icio.us account there are a number of ways you can add del.icio.us to your blog.

* Network Badges
* Link Rolls
* Tag Rolls

and daily blog posting are some of the features that del.icio.us offers.

Under tag rolls you'll fond how to create a tag cloud for your website or blog - it's a great way to show your visitors what your blog talks about

AUTOMATIC IMAGE ROTATOR
Version 2.2 - December 4, 2003
Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Dan P. Benjamin, Automatic, Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.

http://www.hiveware.com/imagerotator.php
http://www.automaticlabs.com/

DISCLAIMER
Automatic, Ltd. makes no representations or warranties about
the suitability of the software, either express or
implied, including but not limited to the implied
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, or non-infringement. Dan P. Benjamin and Automatic, Ltd.
shall not be liable for any damages suffered by licensee
as a result of using, modifying or distributing this
software or its derivatives.


ABOUT
This PHP script will randomly select an image file from a
folder of images on your webserver. You can then link to it
as you would any standard image file and you'll see a random
image each time you reload.

When you want to add or remove images from the rotation-pool,
just add or remove them from the image rotation folder.


VERSION CHANGES
Version 1.0
- Release version

Version 1.5
- Tweaked a few boring bugs

Version 2.0
- Complete rewrite from the ground-up
- Made it clearer where to make modifications
- Made it easier to specify/change the rotation-folder
- Made it easier to specify/change supported image types
- Wrote better instructions and info (you're them reading now)
- Significant speed improvements
- More error checking
- Cleaner code (albeit more PHP-specific)
- Better/faster random number generation and file-type parsing
- Added a feature where the image to display can be specified
- Added a cool feature where, if an error occurs (such as no
images being found in the specified folder) *and* you're
lucky enough to have the GD libraries compiled into PHP on
your webserver, we generate a replacement "error image" on
the fly.

Version 2.1
- Updated a potential security flaw when value-matching
filenames

Version 2.2
- Updated a few more potential security issues
- Optimized the code a bit.
- Expanded the doc for adding new mime/image types.

Thanks to faithful ALA reader Justin Greer for
lots of good tips and solid code contribution!


INSTRUCTIONS
1. Modify the $folder setting in the configuration section below.
2. Add image types if needed (most users can ignore that part).
3. Upload this file (rotate.php) to your webserver. I recommend
uploading it to the same folder as your images.
4. Link to the file as you would any normal image file, like this:



5. You can also specify the image to display like this:



This would specify that an image named "gorilla.jpg" located
in the image-rotation folder should be displayed.

That's it, you're done.

*/




/* ------------------------- CONFIGURATION -----------------------


Set $folder to the full path to the location of your images.
For example: $folder = '/user/me/example.com/images/';
If the rotate.php file will be in the same folder as your
images then you should leave it set to $folder = '.';

*/


$folder = '.';


/*

Most users can safely ignore this part. If you're a programmer,
keep reading, if not, you're done. Go get some coffee.

If you'd like to enable additional image types other than
gif, jpg, and png, add a duplicate line to the section below
for the new image type.

Add the new file-type, single-quoted, inside brackets.

Add the mime-type to be sent to the browser, also single-quoted,
after the equal sign.

For example:

PDF Files:

$extList['pdf'] = 'application/pdf';

CSS Files:

$extList['css'] = 'text/css';

You can even serve up random HTML files:

$extList['html'] = 'text/html';
$extList['htm'] = 'text/html';

Just be sure your mime-type definition is correct!

*/

$extList = array();
$extList['gif'] = 'image/gif';
$extList['jpg'] = 'image/jpeg';
$extList['jpeg'] = 'image/jpeg';
$extList['png'] = 'image/png';


// You don't need to edit anything after this point.


// --------------------- END CONFIGURATION -----------------------

$img = null;

if (substr($folder,-1) != '/') {
$folder = $folder.'/';
}

if (isset($_GET['img'])) {
$imageInfo = pathinfo($_GET['img']);
if (
isset( $extList[ strtolower( $imageInfo['extension'] ) ] ) &&
file_exists( $folder.$imageInfo['basename'] )
) {
$img = $folder.$imageInfo['basename'];
}
} else {
$fileList = array();
$handle = opendir($folder);
while ( false !== ( $file = readdir($handle) ) ) {
$file_info = pathinfo($file);
if (
isset( $extList[ strtolower( $file_info['extension'] ) ] )
) {
$fileList[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);

if (count($fileList) > 0) {
$imageNumber = time() % count($fileList);
$img = $folder.$fileList[$imageNumber];
}
}

if ($img!=null) {
$imageInfo = pathinfo($img);
$contentType = 'Content-type: '.$extList[ $imageInfo['extension'] ];
header ($contentType);
readfile($img);
} else {
if ( function_exists('imagecreate') ) {
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate (100, 100)
or die ("Cannot initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0,0,0);
imagestring ($im, 2, 5, 5, "IMAGE ERROR", $text_color);
imagepng ($im);
imagedestroy($im);
}
}

?>

Easy! Type

[contact-form]

in any post or page, and a simple contact form asking for the sender’s name, email address, website and comment will be inserted. When someone submits a message through the form, you receive that message in an email.

Note: Do NOT copy and paste the aforementioned shortcode. Please be sure to actually type it into your visual editor.

Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email!).

What about spam? Will I get a lot from the contact form?
You may get some spam, but you shouldn’t get a lot. All the messages people send to you through the contact form are filtered through Akismet.

You can put whatever you want in the name and email boxes. How can I know who’s really sending the message?
If a logged in WordPress.com member sends you a message, the end of the email will let you know that the message was sent by a verified user, and you can trust the name and email. Otherwise, you can’t trust anything.

As with anything online, know that anonymity is both a curse and a blessing :)

Can I use the form in a text widget in the sidebar?
No, but you can create a contact form on a page and link to it instead.

Can I change how the form looks?
Nope, not unless you have Custom CSS. You can, of course, include any text you want above or below the contact form.

Can I have a message like “Thanks for your email, I’ll be sure to read it”?
No. As far as the sender is concerned, the contact form is a big black hole.

My blog has multiple authors. Who gets the email?
The email is sent to the author of the post with the contact form in it. So each author on your blog can have his or her own contact form. But … each author can create a contact page of their own. So you could have a text widget which links to the author’s contact page, or at the bottom of each post add something like “Please contact me here if you wish”. Because you can send yourself emails this way do test to be sure for yourself.

Great! But how will my visitors know who they’re sending a message to?
Just make the title of your post “Contact Mary” or put “Hey, drop John a line with the form below” in the body of your post.

Is there a list in blog admin of who has sent messages?
Your email client already does such a good job of that, so WordPress.com does not bother to keep a list.

Can I find out which authors on my blog are being sent emails?
Sure, just ask them! We don’t want to get all big brother on you or your blog, so we can’t tell you (no really - we actually don’t know!).

Can I have a copy of emails sent? / Can the emails go to multiple people?
We don’t do anything fancy like that; we can only send messages to the one email address: the post author’s. If you want to set up something clever in your email client, that’s up to you.

Do I have stats for this?
Nope. Again, we just don’t keep track of these things.

Too often this happens to everyone. Here’s the scenario - You’re writing your brand new post, you’ve just published it and you’ve put hours of work into it and you’re proud of your efforts.

An hour later your host/provider has a server fart and your database and all your hard work goes down the drain. Your instant reaction is most likely rage.

Your first thought is most likely: I can’t be motivated to write it again, so I’ll just sit back and wait until the urge builds up to rewrite the post. “there goes all my hard work!” And to think all of this grief could be saved with 5 minutes work. Here’s a few methods to save you pulling your hair out:

Method One - cPanel

If you happen to be using a host that has cPanel, you can find the script I have written below to be quite useful for backing up your Wordpress database (or any other database for that matter, which is why I love it because it is not restricted to Wordpress). After you have downloaded the file, rename it from a .phps to .php to be sure the script will be executable. This step is absolutely imperative.
Download The Script

Security Warning

Now using your favorite FTP client, upload your newly created file In the directory under public_html/ or www/. I emphasised that because it is absolutely critical that this is where you upload it, otherwise you will be left open to someone being able to download your database information. And now we’re ready to roll onto the next step.

Now presuming you’ve either created a new PHP file or downloaded the file and renamed it, you need to login to cPanel and find the Cron Jobs icon. If you’re having trouble finding it, reference this image for help. Note that the image you say may differ to your cPanel interface.

Once you have found it, click it (duh) and youll be greeted with two buttons: Standard or Advaned. For now, choose standard and you’ll be greeted with a few boxes and inputs. See this image for an idea of what you need to put in all these boxes. The settings I have selected in this image are that my backup will be emailed to me every day at 3am (Server Time). If you would like to change this, simply do so by using the boxes. If you have trouble understanding what to do, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or email me.

Method Two - Wordpress Plugin

So there’s many great plugins out there for Wordpress which can do everything from add ajax goodness on pages to backup your database, which is exactly what we want.

For this tutorial, I have used WP-DB-Backup which was originally developed by skippy.net but was since abandoned and taken up by Austin Matzko and has since been rereleased for WP 2.1. Simply head on over to the WP-DP-Backup page, download the plugin and read the simple installation instructions. I would repost the incstructions here, but you can simply view them after you click the link. I myself have not used this plugin, as I am a faithful user of the above mentioned Method One.

Method Three - Wordpress Internal Backup

As far as I can tell from reading and watching a short video, this method makes the above mentioned Method Two of using a plugin obsolete (although having not used the plugin myself, it may offer extra functionality that the Wordpress Backup Tool does not). To save me explaining this method, a video on TubeTutorial which can be viewed via this link explains the method in great detail.

Conclusion

So there’s three methods to hopefully save you some grief in the long run if you do happen to lose your database(s). Just a quick shout out to the guys and girls at TubeTutorial for the use of their video in Method Three which is part of their series: 7 Essential Wordpress Hacks. It’s well worth a look.

If you feel I have missed anything in this guide drop me a line in the comments or use this revolutionary new technology called Email and get in touch, stranger.

Thanks for reading my first article on Attackr! If you think this article can be improved, please leave a comment.

I saw this article in another blog, and I thought this would be good to share. Something to think about and remember in our daily lives.

by Jack Canfield

An excerpt from Jack Canfield’s KEY to Living the Law of Attraction

The best attitude you can possibly aspire to express year-round is one of gratitude and appreciation.

Being truly grateful for what is already present in your life will automatically and effortlessly attract more good into your life.

Make a conscious decision to appreciate and acknowledge all that you have already been blessed with. These emotions are of the highest vibrational frequency, and through the Law of Attraction they will attract even more to be thankful for.

Try to be grateful for even the difficult and challenging situations that arise in your life.

It is often through these situations, that we experience the most profound spiritual and emotional growth. You can learn to view each apparent obstacle as an opportunity to develop a new quality, strength, skill, insight or wisdom and be grateful for the lessons. Each challenge is an opportunity for growth and expansion.

Rise to these occasions, and appreciate all that you are learning in the process. Keeping your attitude positive and appreciative through these times will not only help to avoid attracting more of these difficult situations into your life ─ it will also create a field of positive energy that will attract more of what you do want.

“Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely
the attitude of gratitude is the most important,
and by far the most life-changing.”
- Zig Ziglar

A Token of Gratitude

Try carrying a small token, stone, crystal, or some other meaningful object with you each day in your pocket. Throughout the day, each time you reach into your pocket for your money or keys it will serve as a tangible reminder to stop and think of something you have to be grateful for. This is a great way to increase your awareness of all that you have to be appreciative of.

Take a moment to breathe, and really feel the emotion of gratitude. This simple mindfulness technique helps to raise your vibrational frequency and keep you in a state of constant gratitude.

Your Gratitude Journal

Start keeping a daily Gratitude and Acknowledgement journal. This is a necessary and valuable tool in the development of your growth and awareness. This book is not intended to be a long, drawn out “diary” sort of thing, just a short, simple list of things you are grateful for on that particular day. This is a place to honor and appreciate the good in your life.

Gratitude:

Each evening, before going to bed, take a few minutes to review your day. Think about the day’s events. Become aware of how many good things actually happened on that day, and remember to appreciate even the challenges that you encountered. Select the five things, or people, or events that you are most grateful for. There is no right or wrong here, just whatever, or whoever you are sincerely grateful for on that particular day. It may be the warm sun on your face, a cool breeze, a kind word, a friend, or just feeling good about what you got accomplished that day. It may be the way you handled a particular situation that would have thrown you into a tailspin in the past.

Anything you are grateful for. As you write them in your journal, feel the gratitude and appreciation. Give thanks.

Acknowledgement:

Take a moment to acknowledge the changes that are occurring for you personally. Write them down. Acknowledge just how well the Law of Attraction is working in your life. Write down any specific event where the Law of Attraction was at work─ the parking space you envisioned, the meeting you wanted to schedule, the bonus check you received, the grade you wanted, the person who said yes when you asked them out.

Miracles can and do occur on a daily basis. They are happening all around you. Honor them, and notice them. Through acknowledgement, you will become more and more aware of the amazing synchronicity that is already at work in your life.

Make the time you spend in contemplation and writing in your Gratitude and Acknowledgement journal a sacred part of your daily routine.

Your continued expressions of joy and gratitude will draw even greater joy, love and abundance into your life.

You will begin to notice a change in your perception of each day’s events. You will become more aware of the positive things that happen all around you every single day. Your focus will shift, your energy will shift, and you will begin to appreciate how blessed you already are. And … the Law of Attraction will respond to the higher vibration you are creating.

Enjoy the journey.
Live each day in joy and gratitude.

www.jackcanfield.com

Almost. This shows you one way to write something that is chapter based.
A blog is a reverse chronological publishing tool. That’s what it is and to make it behave differently you will need to do some work yourself. You also need your readers to exercise some self-discipline.

Following this will produce a ‘front cover’, an ‘index’ and the actual work.

1.Create a page called “front”
2.Create a page called “index”
3.Create a page called “chapters”
4.Go to Settings > Reading
Make “front” the front of the blog
Make “chapters” have the posts
5.On “front” make 1 link to “index”
6.Write a post - your Chapter 1. Publish it. Copy the URL of the post
7.Edit “index” and place a link to Chapter 1
8.Repeat steps 6 and 7 for each chapter
Recent Posts / Recent Comments and Archives widgets could let people move around more freely and could break the flow. You may want to remove them. You still need a link to the “index” - use a text widget for that link.

You could use Pages for the chapters instead of posts.

The names of those pages is optional of course.

Filed under: book.

Related Questions
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•A Post and a Page
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In Wordpress, you can write either posts or pages. When you're writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog's home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as "About Me," "Contact Me," etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless -- information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content.

Other examples of common pages include Copyright, Legal Information, Reprint Permissions, Company Information, and Accessibility Statement. (By the way, it's a good idea to always have an about page and a contact page -- see this advice from Lorelle.)

In general, Pages are very similar to Posts in that they both have Titles and Content and can use your site's Presentation Templates to maintain a consistent look throughout your site. Pages, though, have several key distinctions that make them quite different from Posts.

Contents
[hide]
■1 Pages in a Nutshell
■2 Creating Pages
■3 Changing the URL (or "Slug") of Your Pages
■4 Listing Your Pages on Your Site
■5 Organizing Your Pages
■6 Page Templates
■6.1 Default Theme Page Templates
■6.2 What Template is used to Display a Particular Page?
■6.3 Creating Your Own Page Templates
■7 Examples of Pages and Templates
■7.1 Archives with Content
■8 WordPress as a CMS
■8.1 Using a Page as the Front Page
■8.2 Alternate Methods for Setting the Front Page
■9 Including a Page
■10 The Dynamic Nature of WordPress "Pages"


Pages in a Nutshell
What Pages Are:

■Pages are for content that is less time-dependent than Posts.
■Pages can be organized into pages and SubPages.
■Pages can use different Page Templates which can include Template Files, Template Tags and other PHP code.
What Pages are Not:

■Pages are not Posts, nor are they excerpted from larger works of fiction. They do not cycle through your blog's main page. (Note: You can include Posts in Pages by using the Inline Posts Plugin.)
■Pages cannot be associated with Categories and cannot be assigned Tags. The organizational structure for Pages comes only from their hierarchical interrelationships, and not from Tags or Categories.
■Pages are not files. They are stored in your database just like Posts are.
■Although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template, you cannot put these into the content of a Page and expect them to run. (Note: You can achieve this by using a PHP evaluating Plugin such as Exec-PHP or RunPHP.)
Creating Pages
To create a new Page, log in to your WordPress installation with sufficient admin privileges to create new articles. In the Administration Panel, choose the Write tab and then choose the Page subtab to access the page where you can create your new Page.

Changing the URL (or "Slug") of Your Pages
With 2.5, changing the page URL became less intuitive. If you have Permalinks enabled, and you have selected the Day and Name option (Click the Settings tab, and then click the Permalinks subtab), then the permalink automatically shows up below your post title when you start typing in the body of your post (not just the title).

However, if you have a different permalink option selected, or if you don't have permalinks enabled at all, you must do the following to edit your page URL:

1.Write a page by going to Write > Page.
2.Click the Publish button to publish your page.
3.Go to Manage > Pages.
4.Click Edit next to your page.
5.See the permalink under the title, and click the Edit link to change it.
Thus, if you don't have the right permalink option enabled, you have to publish your pages before you can set the URLs.

Listing Your Pages on Your Site
WordPress is able to automatically generate a list of Pages on your site, for example within the sidebar, using a Template Tag called wp_list_pages(). See the wp_list_pages page for information on how to do the following:

■Sort the list of Pages (to fully customize the order in which the Pages are listed, you might find the "Page Order" section on the Write > Page administration panel useful),
■exclude (or 'hide') a Page from the list,
■Control which Pages are displayed (i.e., all Pages or just certain SubPages), and
■Control how deep into your Page hierarchy the list goes.
Naturally, you can also link to Pages manually with an HTML link. For example, if you want your Copyright Page listed in your footer, that link might read as below:
If you do not have Permalinks set up

Copyright 1996-2006
If you do have Permalinks set up

Copyright 1996-2006
Note: Your .htaccess file must be writeable for Page Permalinks to work, otherwise you must update your .htaccess file every time you create a Page.

Organizing Your Pages
Just as you can have Subcategories within your Categories, you can also have SubPages within your Pages, creating a hierarchy of pages.

For example, suppose you are creating a WordPress site for a travel agent and would like to create an individual Page for each continent and country to which the agency can make travel arrangements. You would begin by creating a Page called "Africa" on which you could describe general information about travel to Africa. Then you would create a series of Pages which would be SubPages to "Africa" and might include "Lesotho", "Cameroon", "Togo", and "Swaziland". Another individual Page is made for "South America" and would feature SubPages of "Brazil", "Argentina", and "Chile". Your site would then list:

■Africa
■Cameroon
■Lesotho
■Swaziland
■Togo
■South America
■Argentina
■Brazil
■Chile

To begin the process, go to Administration > Write > Write Page panel, in the upper right corner of the panel and click the "Page Parent" drop-down menu. The drop-down menu contains a list of all the Pages already created for your site. To turn your current Page into a SubPage, or "Child" of the "Parent" Page, select the appropriate Page from the drop-down menu. If you specify a Parent other than "Main Page (no parent)" from the list, the Page you are now editing will be made a Child of that selected Page. When your Pages are listed, the Child Page will be nested under the Parent Page. The Permalinks of your Pages will also reflect this Page hierarchy.

In the above example, the Permalink for the Cameroon Page would be:

http://example.com/africa/cameroon/
Page Templates
Individual Pages can be set to use a specific custom Page Template (a PHP template file, e.g., snarfer.php) you create within your Theme (see Creating your own Page Templates below on how to create a custom template). This new Page Template will then override the default page.php Page Template included with your Theme. See What Template is used to Display a Particular Page? below, to find out exactly which Template will be used, but read the following first, so you understand the answer :)

WordPress can be configured to use different Page Templates for different Pages. Toward the bottom of the Write > Page administration panel (or on the sidebar, depending on which version of WordPress you are using) is a drop-down labeled "Page Template." From there you can select which Template will be used when displaying this particular Page.

NOTE: In order to access the Page Template selector, there must be at least one custom Page Template available in the active theme (see Creating your own Page Templates below to learn how to create one).

Default Theme Page Templates
The Default theme contains three Page Templates for your use:

■page.php - Default Page Template: displays Page content
■archives.php - ignores Page content and instead displays a list of Archives by Month and Archives by Subject (by Category)
■links.php - ignores Page content and instead displays your links using get_links_list
What Template is used to Display a Particular Page?
WordPress will look for several template files in your active Theme. The first one it finds will be used to display any given Page. WordPress will look for files in the following order:

1.The Page's selected "Page Template"
2.page.php
3.index.php
Creating Your Own Page Templates
The files defining each Page Template are found in your Themes directory. To create a new Custom Page Template for a Page you must create a file. Let's call our first Page Template for our Page snarfer.php. At the top of the snarfer.php file, put the following:

/*
Template Name: Snarfer
*/
?>
The above code defines this snarfer.php file as the "Snarfer" Template. Naturally, "Snarfer" may be replaced with most any text to change the name of the Page Template. This Template Name will appear in the Theme Editor as the link to edit this file.

The file may be named almost anything with a .php extension (see reserved Theme filenames for filenames you should not use; these are special file names WordPress reserves for specific purposes).

What follows the above five lines of code is up to you. The rest of the code you write will control how Pages that use the Snarfer Page Template will display. See Template Tags for a description of the various WordPress Template functions you can use for this purpose. You may find it more convenient to copy some other Template (perhaps page.php or index.php) to snarfer.php and then add the above five lines of code to the beginning of the file. That way, you will only have to alter the HTML and PHP code, instead of creating it all from scratch. Examples are shown below. Once you have created the Page Template and placed it in your Theme's directory, it will be available as a choice when you create or edit a Page. (Note: when creating or editing a Page, the Page Template option does not appear unless there is at least one template defined in the above manner.)

Examples of Pages and Templates

The following is a list of instructional examples. Feel free to make additions.

Archives with Content
A Page Template that shows the Page's content at the top, and then displays a list of archive months and categories below it. This is designed to work with WordPress's Default theme (aka Kubrick), but will probably work with many other themes with a little modification.


WordPress as a CMS
You can use WordPress for basic content management. If you do, you'll probably create a large number of pages for your content.

Using a Page as the Front Page
WordPress 2.1 introduced the Option to conveniently set any Page as your Front Page. Go to Settings > Reading in the Wordpress Admin interface. Under the Front Page Category, you can choose to set any (published) Page or Posts Page as the Front Page. The default setting shows your blog with the latest blog posts.

Alternate Methods for Setting the Front Page
If you don't want to use the built-in feature to set the home page as a static page, you have two other options. Using the Static Front Page Plugin, it is possible to set any Page as the "front page" of your site. The Plugin modifies the home page query and sticks the Page with a Page slug of "home" to the front page.

When the Page is being displayed as the homepage, if a Page Template with the filename home.php exists for your active Theme, the Plugin will override the Page's set Page Template and use home.php instead. The Page's set Page Template will still apply if the Page is visited like a standard Page (e.g., http://example.com/home/)

As an alternative to the Plugin, WordPress will recognize a "home.php" document in your template directory and use it rather than index.php to theme your front page. However, if your home page isn't your blog, be advised that the home.php template will always apply to the blog page whether you like it or not. Using the query_posts() template tag, you can call on any page before you invoke The Loop. For instance:

query_posts('pagename=home');
?>
Will call up only the post with the pagename "home." See query_posts() for more examples of the template tag in action.

Including a Page
You might also want to include Pages in various places on your site. That way, you can have an easy way to edit elements of your website. There is a Plugin called Improved Include Page that makes doing this easy.

The Dynamic Nature of WordPress "Pages"
A web page can be static or dynamic. Static pages, such as a regular HTML page that you might create with Dreamweaver, are those which have been created once and do not have to be regenerated every time a person visits it. In contrast, dynamic pages, such as those you create with WordPress, do need to be regenerated every time they are viewed; code for what to generate has been specified by the author, but not the actual page itself. These use extensive PHP code which is evaluated each time the page is visited, and the content is thus generated on the fly, upon each new visit.

Almost everything in WordPress is generated dynamically, including Pages. Everything you and others write in WordPress (Posts, Pages, Comments, Blogrolls, Categories, etc.) is stored in your MySQL database. When your site is accessed, that database information is then used by your WordPress Templates from your current Theme to generate the web page being requested. Thus, WordPress information is dynamic, including the information contained in your Pages.

An example of a static page might be an HTML document (without any PHP code) you've written as an addition to your dynamically generated WordPress pages, perhaps an "About Me" page. The problem with purely static pages is that they are difficult to maintain. Changes you make to your WordPress settings, Themes and Templates will not be propagated to pages coded only in HTML. The Page feature of WordPress was developed, in part, to alleviate this problem. By using Pages, users no longer have to update their static pages every time they change the style of their site. Instead, if written properly, their dynamic Pages will update themselves along with the rest of your blog.

Despite the dynamic nature of Pages, many people refer to them as being static. In the context of web publishing, static and dynamic mean what has been described above. More generally, however, static can mean "characterized by a lack of change". It is easy to see how this definition influenced the word's use in describing types of web pages. It is also easy to see why people think of Pages as being static; Posts come and go, but Pages are here to stay since Pages are typically used to display information about your site which is constant (e.g., information about yourself, description of your site).

In other words, a Page contains static information but is generated dynamically. Thus, either "static" or "dynamic" may be validly used to describe the nature of the WordPress Page feature. However, in order to avoid confusion, and because Pages themselves are dynamic while it is only their contents which are in some way static, this document does not refer to Pages as being static.

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File name:audio-player.zip
Version: 1.2.3
Last updated:4 September 2006
Requirements: Wordpress 1.5 - 2.3

If you wish to make a donation to the author of the Audio Player plugin (that’s me), use the Paypal button.

Audio Player 2.0 beta is now available!
Table of contents

* Top
* Usage
* Examples
* Podcasting
* RSS feeds
* The “chipmunk” effect
* Colour scheme
* Runtime options
* Installation
* Upgrading
* Upgrade wizard
* Change log
* Download
* Comments

If you want to use this player on a non-WordPress site, Mindy McAdams has written a very detailed tutorial http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin./

Important note: This plugin only works in posts and pages. It does NOT work in headers, sidebars or footers and I do not provide support for placing it there.

Other important note: This plugin only plays MP3 files. This is a limitation of the Adobe Flash Player.
Contents Usage

Once installed, this plugin allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages. Use the following syntax:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3]

This code will insert a flash player and will load the file named name_of_mp3_file.mp3 located in your audio files folder. You can store your audio files anywhere in the web root as long as you update the path in the plugin’s options panel. The default is /audio.

You can also use absolute paths to link to files on other servers:

[audio:http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/name_of_mp3_file.mp3]

Audio Player can also play a sequence of audio clips. Use commas to separate the files:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file1.mp3,name_of_mp3_file2.mp3,name_of_mp3_file3.mp3#093;

You can also pre-append and post-append a clip to all your players. Explained in the Podcasting section.
Contents Examples
Default colour scheme

Custom colour scheme

Contents Podcasting

If you are using the player for a podcasting blog, Audio Player has special options just for you.
Enclosures

If you are unsure what an enclosure is, read the definition on Wikipedia. You have 3 options:

* If you set your enclosures manually, Audio Player can insert a player automatically at the end of your posts. Select the Enclosure integration option in the Audio Player options panel.
* If you let WordPress set enclosures automatically (by reading mp3 links in your posts), you can still use the Enclosure integration option.
* You can also use the [audio] syntax but you must use absolute URLs:

e.g. http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/name_of_mp3_file.mp3

WordPress will automatically detect the file and set the relevant enclosure option for you.

Pre/Post appended clips

You may wish to pre-append or post-append audio clips into your players. To do this, enter the full urls in the relevant section of the options panel. The pre-appended audio will be played before the main audio, and the post-appended will come after. A typical podcasting use-case for this feature is adding a sponsorship message or simple instructions that help casual listeners become subscribers. This will apply to all audio players on your site. Your chosen audio clips should be substantially shorter than your main feature.
Contents RSS Feeds

You have a choice over what to show in your RSS feed:

* A download link: Choose this if you are OK with subscribers downloading the file.
* Nothing: Choose this if you feel that your feed shouldn’t contain any reference to the audio file.
* Custom: Choose this to use your own alternative content for all player instances. You can use this option to tell subscribers that they can listen to the audio file if they read the post on your blog. You can set the content in the options panel.

Go to the options panel to set these options.
Contents The “chipmunk” effect

The Macromedia Flash player has a problem playing files that are encoded at a rate that is not a multiple of 11.025 kHz. This effect is sometimes called the “chipmunk� effect: the file is played at double speed. To avoid this, encode MP3s at 11.025 kHz 22.050 kHz or 44.100 kHz.
Contents Colour scheme

The entire player colour scheme is customisable. Use the Audio Player options panel in your WP admin to set the colour scheme of your player. You can also change the colours per player instance by using runtime options. Here are the colours that you can set:

Player colour options
Contents Runtime options

Use these if you want to use a different colour scheme for a particular player instance. You can also make the player open automatically or loop the loaded clip. You can pass a number of options to a player instance. To do this use the following syntax:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3|option1=value|option2=value]

Option Effect
autostart=yes The player will automatically open and start to play the track (default value is no)
loop=yes The track will be looped indefinitely (default value is no)
bg=0xHHHHHH Background colour option (where HHHHHH is a valid hexadecimal colour value such as FFFFFF or 009933)
leftbg=0xHHHHHH Left background colour
rightbg=0xHHHHHH Right background colour
rightbghover=0xHHHHHH Right background colour (hover)
lefticon=0xHHHHHH Left icon colour
righticon=0xHHHHHH Right icon colour
righticonhover=0xHHHHHH Right icon colour (hover)
text=0xHHHHHH Text colour
slider=0xHHHHHH Slider colour
loader=0xHHHHHH Loader bar colour
track=0xHHHHHH Progress track colour
border=0xHHHHHH Progress track border colour
Example:

[audio:name_of_mp3_file.mp3|autostart=yes|bgcolor=0x000000]

This will set the main background colour of the player to black and automatically start the player when the page loads.
Contents Installation

1. Extract and upload the files to your plugins folder
You should end up with this folder structure:
Folder structure
2. Create a folder in your blog root (where your wordpress install lives) where you will store all your mp3 files
I recommend an audio folder in the root of your blog so it doesn’t interfere with your WP install. If you wish to use another folder, remember to change the audio files directory option on your options panel.
3. Activate the plugin in your WP admin
4. Go to Options > Audio Player in the WP admin
Here, you can choose how you want to use Audio Player and also set the colours to match your site’s design.

Contents Upgrading from 0.x to 1.x

Once installed, the old player is overwritten with the new one and all colour options should be transfered to the new scheme. Some adjusting to the slider and loader bar colours might be necessary.
Contents Upgrade wizard

Upgrade wizard screenshotAudio Player comes with an upgrade wizard. On the options panel, you can find out if a new update is available by clicking the Check for updates button. If an update is available, you will be prompted to open the upgrade wizard. Simply click Upgrade and the wizard will download the latest version and install it for you. Note: The upgrade wizard relies on some PHP functionality that is not available on all server configurations. You host may have disabled these features, in which case the upgrade wizard will be disabled.

Download the audio player V 1.2.3 at www.1pixelout.net/download/audio-player.zip

This tutorial uses the Audio Player Wordpress plugin from 1pixelout. Please download the .zip file from that site. You will need to unzip the files and use two of them:

* player.swf (this is the audio player)
* audio-player.js (this is the JavaScript)

These instructions concern using that player on non-Wordpress HTML pages.

You must have some Web space that you control (that is, server space) to which you will upload these files as well as your audio files.

If you are using Internet Explorer, you will probably need to click the player twice to make it play. (All other Web browsers will let you click once.) If you do not see the MP3 player, then you don't have the Flash player installed. (More than 90 percent of all Internet users do have it.)
Tutorial

For this tutorial, let's imagine that your server space is at this URL: www.fakedomain.com/myname/

1. Create a new folder on your Web server and name it "audio"
2. Upload the two files for the audio player (player.swf and audio-player.js) to the audio folder.
3. Upload an MP3 file to the audio folder. For this tutorial, let's assume your file is named music.mp3. (NOTE: The MP3 file must be encoded at 44.1 kHz, or 22.05 kHz, or 11.025 kHZ; any other sampling rate will result in the "chipmunk effect," which you really would not like.)

Now that your three files are uploaded, they reside at these URLs:

* http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/player.swf
* http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/audio-player.js
* http://www.fakedomain.com/myname/audio/music.mp3

The next step is to place the HTML for this player on the Web page where you want it to appear. Change the URLs shown below to match your own URLs.


If You Use Blogger

To use this player with a blog hosted at Blogger, take out all the code above the