Right, WP does have a lot of video plugins, and I do like WP as a way to have my "site", but on the video plugin front it seems most are just a way to collect random video's from YT, etc. Now I will admit I have not looked at all the video plugins but in this whole process of re-doing my sites, I looked at a lot of plugins...There are plugins to display your video, podpress, flash players, Vodpod and a couple of others but none really address the "look" of the site and to be honest the Blip player is starting to look really, really good.
So then we are to embed and there are a few that help with that, but again, some are hinky, some won't work with the latest wordpress and some are just bad. Then you have all your recent posts or ramdom posts....most don't take advantage of the Video format or even the photo format to be honest...there are a few that I have seen but again, they are a bit hinky, I mean if I have to go into code, or read a freakin novel to figure out how a plugin is to work.....that doesn't appeal to me...I am a creator....I am not a programer, I mean I have learned stuff, but it makes my head hurt and then once I figure something out on the code side the creative part of me is beat and I don't feel like making the very thing I wanted to make in the first place.. That for me is one of my biggest struggles, balancing the "look" of my site and just creating the stuff....I admire those who do both.... I am glad to see so much conversation going on though, it's good to just talk about all this and who knows maybe we can find/make a better way... ;) Heath http://heathparks.com --- In [email protected], "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only "issue" and it's not really an issue is that you have to > > manually define the related video's with Charles's plugin. It would > > be nice if it just randomly selected related video's and have the > > option to select one's yourself. And while I do like SIAB, there are > > still some drawbacks that I think are stil mainly related to the > > whole blog structure. > > yeah...showinabox.tv/forum was really just a way to start a new > conversation about using video and Worpress since WP seemed to be the > preferred blogging platform. SIAB is by no means a technical solution. > the experience has taught us just how much development/design work it > takes to make new themes and plugins. Plus the maintenance of these > things you build as well. > > by the way, the wordpress community has about 100 video plugins: > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php/page/7?q=video > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 >
