{"id":3650,"date":"2013-12-07T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2013-12-08T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T11:33:41","slug":"alternative-video-embed-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"Alternative video embed for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just fiddling around, I converted an .avi file to the .flv format with a video conversion program (Ultra Flash Video Converter version 5.3.0).  Anyway, the program produced the video complete with a player.  I liked the way the player looked (simple) so I decided to see if I could make the thing work in a WordPress page.  As it turned out <strong>not only did the thing work, but, making it work was easy<\/strong>.  Basically, I did three three things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Copied some javascript code into the header.php file of my theme.\n<li> Copied a couple of .swf files to both the root directory and theme directory of my WordPress site (not sure which ones are being used&#8230;.)\n<li> Copied the embed code to my page.\n<\/ol>\n<p>The only other thing I did was adjust the width and height values.  All of this produced the video which is displayed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3555\">this page<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou can download the files for the preceding example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flash_video.zip\"><stronmg><u>here<\/u><\/strong><\/a>. Just copy the javascript in the header of the html document to the header.php file of your theme&#8230;..it should work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just fiddling around, I converted an .avi file to the .flv format with a video conversion program (Ultra Flash Video Converter version 5.3.0). Anyway, the program produced the video complete with a player. I liked the way the player looked (simple) so I decided to see if I could make the thing work in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}