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Stream Your YouTube Channel On A Page Inside Your WordPress Website

Jarrett Gucci — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:19:07 +0000

WordPress shortcodes are great. They let you perform complex operations or display dynamic content with just a tiny bit of text in any page or post.

I recently needed a way to embed the most recent videos from a Youtube channel (very dynamic information) in a WordPress page, so I decided to write a shortcode for it.

The code is actually pretty simple. Just add the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

COPY CODE BELOW

function youtube_feed_shortcode($atts)
{
// Defaults:
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'user' => 'mrinternettips', // youtube user
'limit' => 5, // maximum number of videos
'height' => 385, // video height
'width' => 480 // video width
), $atts));
$data = @json_decode(file_get_contents('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/'.$user.'/uploads?alt=json'), TRUE);
$counter = 0;
$content = '
';
foreach($data['feed']['entry'] as $vid)
{
$url = $vid['media$group']['media$content'][0]['url'];
$title = $vid['title']['$t'];
$ycontent = $vid['content']['$t'];
$content.= ''.''.''.''.''.
'
'.$title.'
'.
'
'.$ycontent.'
'."n";
$counter++;
if($counter == $limit)
{
break;
}
}
$content .= '


';
return $content;
}
add_shortcode('youtubefeed', 'youtube_feed_shortcode');

The shortcode below is completely configurable.

[youtubefeed user="YourChannel Name Here" limit="3" height="385" width="560"]

You can change any option as needed.

You might have noticed the code gives each element a particular class to make it CSS friendly. All you have to do is add CSS rules for three classes: .youtubefeed, .youtubetitle, and .youtubecontent.

My stylesheet looks like this: (this will be your style.css file)

COPY CODE BELOW

.youtubefeed {
margin: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
.youtubetitle {
font-size: 1.6em;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 3px;
}
.youtubecontent {
margin-bottom: 30px;
text-align: left;
}

Other Plugin That Will Do This:

TubePress

TubeMatic

Produce HD Movies With Windows Movie Maker 2.6

Jarrett Gucci — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:38:38 +0000

Windows movie maker is great software, for it allows you to edit and make videos easily for free. However,

Windowsmovie maker 2.6 cannot render videos in HD. High definition (HD) videos enhance quality and captivate the audience more. The primary purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to make HD videos on windows movie maker.

Instructions

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Step 1- Go to http://www.papajohn.org/

Once in Papajohn.org, look on the left side corner. Click on where it says “WMV HD”. Subsequently, click on “Introduction”. Then you will see the download links to all the HD resolutions.
After downloading the plug-ins, copy them, go to C:Program FilesMovie Maker 2.6Shared

Next create a folder called “Profile”. Click on the folder and past the plug-ins
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Step 2- Open Windows movie maker

If you do not have windows movie maker, go to this site to download it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D6BA5972-328E-4DF7-8F9D-068FC0F80CFC&displaylang=en
Open windows movie maker and start editing your video.
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Step 3- Render videos in HD

After you have finished editing, you will now be able to render videos in HD. On the movie settings page, select “other settings”. Select the HD resolutions to render in HD.

Simple Explination (Social Web)

Jarrett Gucci — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:19:37 +0000

The Social Web is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web. Such people are brought together through a variety of shared interests. There are different ways in which people want to socialize on the Web today. The first kind of socializing is typified by “people focus” websites such as Bebo, Facebook, and Myspace. Such sites promote the person as focus of social interaction. To do this a profile is constructed by each user. In many ways the profile is similar to a passport.

The second kind of socializing is typified by a sort of “hobby focus” websites. For example, if one is interested in photography and wants to share this with like-minded people, then there are photography websites such as Flickr, Kodak Gallery and Photobucket.

There are also two ways in which people socialize with each other in the Social Web. The most general and most common type is always at a distance and only on the World Wide Web. In such socializing there is never face to face personal contact. Much of the socializing on Flickr is sharing of photos and making comments on the photos of others. However, where Flickr members come from a common local geographical area, then they are inclined to get together physically for a common photoshoot. This exemplifies the second type of socializing through the World Wide Web: that which leads to real physical contact. Typical examples of the latter arose historically from social networking both within and outside schools and colleges. Facebook’s origins are in the facebook of college students from Harvard University.

The Social Web may also be used to refer to two different, yet related concepts. The first is as a description of web 2.0 technologies that are focused on social interaction and community before anything else. The second is a proposal for a future network similar to the World Wide Web.