Journal entries filed under Geekery:
Placing YouTube videos in your blog with KFE
One of the most common questions I get about using Kimili Flash Embed is how to go about posting YouTube videos on a site with it. As you’ll see, it turns out to be a relatively simple and painless process.
RealConfused
It seems that that very long in the tooth software which simply doesn’t matter any more, the RealPlayer, is confused.
Textpattern Plugin: Kimili Flash Embed
Interested in using Flash while maintaining standards compliance? Geoff Stearns has come up with a fabulous JavaScript to do that. The only trouble with using it in your textpattern site is the relative nastiness of dropping the necessary JavaScript code into the middle of an article.
The Kimili Flash Embed plugin helps you avoid that.
Molding Textpattern XML Feeds
As I was building this site and turned my attention to the RSS and Atom feeds that Textpattern generates, I found out that you have the option to display either full articles or excerpts. I thought it would be good to offer feeds for both the excerpts and the full articles. Twenty minutes and a small bit of hackery later, I had it down. Here’s how I did it.