FlashPress - WordCamp Montreal 2009

Brendan Sera-Shriarwww.digibombinc.com

bridging two worlds…

What is flashpress?

flashpress is a theme framework that allows you

to manage a full flash site using WordPress as the CMS!

Why build flashpress?

The use of the WordPress CMS in Flash overcomes many obstacles involved with maintaining and updating a Flash site.

Let’s face it, it’s expensive and timely working in Flash!

Some Benefits1. Client side management for Flash content/media

2. Easy blogging in Flash

3. A simple way to add a Database to Flash

4. Plus all the other benefits of WordPress!

The flashpress architecture

How does it all Work?

Because flashpress is a theme framework all we need to do is copy the fp php files to our themes directory. Then we need to copy the Flash theme/class directory to the root of our WP install.

The flashpress architecture

WP root

• wp-admin

• wp-content

• wp-includes

• flash

• *.php

wp-content \ themes \ themename

• images

• flashpress.class.php

• fp-add-comment.php

• fp-posts.php

• fp-search.php

• *.php/css

The Flash files

When developing a Flash site your require 2 essential directories, deploy which contains the final output and source which contains all working files, libraries, utils, etc…

deploy

• *.swf

• AC_RunActiveContent.js

• index.html

• fullscreen.html

source

• *.fla

• *.as

• com and other custom packages (pv3, tweener, utils, etc…)

Enough talk!

Where we are?

There’s still a lot of work to do!

Completed

• Posts

• Comments

• Media

• Pages

• Search

• Taxonomy

What’s next?

• Plugin support

• User registration

Thank YouBrendan Sera-Shriar, Founder of digibomb

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