I’m gearing up for the 1.2 release of Vimeo for Wordpress now. There’s a few features I’d like to add before I let it into the wild but this latest release adds comments to the videos ( so you can tell what the embed code actually does), It fixes the issue of the colour picker’s box being at the bottom of the page (though the CSS isn’t quite perfect yet) aswell as a few other things.
As usual I’ll put up a few examples of how it all goes plus some screenshots.
So Here’s the first one:
Using the new commenting system it’s easy to see what your videos are and it’s even easier to select them and delete the code
Here’s the second:
When you add a video in the manual entry box there’s no way of the plugin knowing what the video is so it just gives some default code
Only a quick update that adds the group URL fix (see last post) and adds a nifty little box on the admin page to help with the hex values, expect a follow up release which will add a popup from which you can choose colours from (this is currently being delayed by CSS issues)
When you type in your hex code into the text box in the admin page and click off the text box it will update the colour next to the text box. As I said just now, this is a temporary measure until I can sort out the CSS
I finally got round to uploading my Vimeo for Wordpress Plugin at 1am this morning and already 66 people have downloaded it. I know this doesn’t seem huge but I’m amazed that in the space of 12 hours 66 people decided to give it a try. Mega happy points there, I’m sure the hype will die down though.
I’ve also just posted up my tutorial on how to make a Facebook App with as much ease as possible over at www.webmonkey.com if anyone wants to go check it out.
I’ve just finished coding my first plugin for Wordpress. I’m calling it Vimeo for Wordpress (original huh?).
The plugin is simple to set up, it uses your Vimeo user name to grab your videos and your friends videos but there’s still an option to enter the URL of the video (the plugin takes the http://www.vimeo.com/ part out of it).
Anyways you should go try it out!
I’ve decided that I’m going to create my own wordpress plugin.
I use Vimeo to host all of my videos as it’s a far better service than youtube and there’s not that many wankers on there to spam my videos. I’ve been looking at their API and I’m starting development on a plugin that will let you access all of your (or your contacts) videos from within the post editor, using a simple menu you will be able to select the video you want to add from a list (or supply the URL) and it will embed the video straight into the post, no copy and pasting. I’m hoping it will work the same way the link tab works on the editor at the moment.
If you love Augmented Reality you should check it out. I’ll be uploading all my tutorials there now so I don’t have to worry about hosting my videos (talking of which I can’t get the mk_patt app to work on Leopard so I won’t be making a video for that just yet.)
I also came across Quartz Composer which is part of the Apple Developer kit, one of the people I’d been talking to on Vimeo uses it to make his videos so I’m most definably going to be using that for something down the line
