I use a plug in called reCAPTCHA on several of my WordPress sites. It’s a little program that shows you a picture of a combination of letters for you to type in that prove you are human and not a spammer. I figured CAPTCHA stood for something about character recognition, but I was curious why it was called ‘re’CAPTCHA. Well, I just ran across an article in the Christian Science Monitor about reCAPTCHA. It’s actually quite ingenious. http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/02/19/recaptcha-how-to-turn-blather-into-books/

I have been using the Kimili Flash Embed plug in for WordPress, and, of course, I’m always doing something a little out of the ordinary that’s not working. Recently, I’ve been trying to post movies. I’ll import the movie into FLASH which turns it into an FLV file. Then I add a skin and publish a SWF player. I upload the FLV, the SWF and the skin SWF. Firefox was showing the movie with no skin. So was IE, but IE gave me the error I needed to track down the solution. First, it was showing that it wasn’t taking skin location from the same directory as the FLV and the SWF. So to fix that, I went into the FLA and under Parameters, changed the skin to the full http path. Then, IE showed I was getting a sandbox security violation. Thankfully, Nicole Rutter’s blog had already figured out this one: http://nicole.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/2008/8/1/Error-2044-Unhandled-skinError-textError-2121-Security-sandbox-violation. Thanks, Nicole! It works!

Oh, and don’t forget to tell Kimili that you want to allow fullscreen mode if you chose a skin that has a fullscreen button, for example: [kml_flashembed movie="http://standrewswichita.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/vbs2008-controls.swf"  allowfullscreen="true"/]

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Found a great site today that explains how to build your own WordPress template. It’s also good for referencing which PHP pages are being utilized on different parts of your WordPress site: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/building-custom-wordpress-theme/