Posts Tagged ‘ WordPress ’

Kaltura Launches New Video Plugin For WordPress

Aug 15th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Software, Video

Open source video platform Kaltura has officially released its Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress.
The free plugin is designed to enable both basic and advanced video capabilities on any WordPress blog (using version 2.5 and higher) - from simple video posting and playing to video commenting and collaborative video editing.
Features:

Upload, and import videos directly to the [...]



Movable Type Wants To Help You Build The Next Digg

Aug 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting Software

Six Apart today announced an update to Movable Type and the launch of Movable Type Pro, a new version that’s designed to let you build your own social networking sites. 
Or as Six Apart puts it, “think Digg in a box”.
What’s New in Movable Type 4.2

Movable Type Pro lets you turn any site into a full [...]



New Podcasting Plugin For WordPress

Aug 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

Blubrry’s Angelo Mandato has introduced a new option for publishing podcasts with WordPress, the Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin. WordPress podcast publishers frustrated by the current state of the PodPress plugin may want to give Powerpress a try.
The Blubrry Powerpress interface lets you add/modify/remove podcast episodes from blog posts and includes a basic media player for [...]



Promote Your WordPress Podcast Feed

Aug 6th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

RawVoice’s Angelo Mandato has released a new free WordPress plug-in designed to help you promote your blog and podcast.
Subscribe Sidebar displays subscription icons with links in the WordPress sidebar. The plugin detects the presence of the Podpress podcasting plug-in and can display the Podpress podcast feed, if configured.
Subscribe Sidebar options:

RSS 2 Feed
Atom Feed
Podpress podcast Feed
Add [...]



Interactive Video Plugin For WordPress

Aug 4th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Software, Video

Kaltura, a company that creates open source Internet video software, has released an Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress.
Features:

Embed videos, photos, sounds and remixes to any blog post.
Edit and remix videos using an online full-featured video editor.
Easily import video, photos, audio etc from across the web with upload/import tool.
Allow readers and subscribers to add video and [...]



Developer Proposes Fix For PodPress/WordPress Incompatibilities

Aug 1st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg let us know about a new development in the WordPress 2.6/PodPress meltdown.
“Two WordPress developers have volunteered fixes for both the 8.8 and 8.9 branches of PodPress,” says Mullenweg. “It’s only a few lines of code to cure the problem.”
The unofficial fixes are available at developer Andrew Ozz’s blog, and they look [...]



WordPress Theme For Video Blogging

Jul 31st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

Foxinni’s WordPress Videos Theme is designed to make creating a video blog a no-brainer.
The theme is makes it easy to embed your own videos and videos from YouTube, Meta Cafe, MySpace, Veoh and other video platforms.
Features:

Multiple Color Schemes
Dark or Light Layouts
Built-in ‘Recent Videos’ Widget
Embed personally hosted videos (.flv)
Embed from supported videos sites:

YouTube
Meta Cafe
Daily Motion
Vimeo
Veoh
Break.com
Blip
MySpace
Live Leak
Hulu

Video [...]



PodPress Disaster Highlights WordPress Problems

Jul 30th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

WordPress 2.6 has been a disaster for a lot of podcasters.
The update, which WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said “should be pretty painless,” has broken a lot of podcasts, leading to a lot of kludgie workarounds.
Some, like Dan McKeown, think the WordPress/PodPress fiasco highlights broader problems with the way WordPress is handling releases:
This episode is a [...]



Plug-In Fixes PodPress Problem With WordPress 2.6

Jul 26th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Services

A lot of people are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6.
Earlier in the week, we reported a simple hack you could use to get things working again. 
A reader, John Leavitt, sends word of an even easier fix - the No Revisions plug-in. It disables the new Revisions feature, [...]



Patch For WordPress 2.6 PodPress Problems

Jul 22nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Software

We reported last week on incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6.
Reader Phillip Molly Malone suggests a workaround that’s available at the PodPress forum:
After spending hours digging through the code and looking at the database, I discovered that the problems between podpress 8.8 and WP [...]