Interview with Denis Bernardy - Question 9 by Free Blogging Advice Guidelines project

Interview with Denis Bernardy
Question 9
(read Question 8 here)

 Is it possible to have videos integrated into the post body?

Of course. There are two ways.

The first is built into WYSIWYG editor - we have a special WYSIWYG editor in Semiologic Pro which is more powerful than the default WordPress editor. Among the things that it does - it handles pasting from Word reasonably well, it handles pasting a plain text and so on. It does bold, and underlines, and changes color obviously. We've also been adding a couple of features to it. There is an image manager in particular which is very sexy: it lets you crop and rotate your images directly on your server without needing an extra software. And Mike added one button that allows to insert videos from all sorts of existing services; namely YouTube kind of sites. If you are storing videos on that kind of sites, then you won't need anything else. You don't even need to activate an extra plugin.

I created a separate plugin for podcasters and videocasters which is called Mediacaster. This one will allow you to insert locally stored videos as well, such as flash videos or iPod specific formats. In addition, of course, to mp3.

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