Youtube embed parameters
Here are some parameters that you can be added to your Youtube video embed code to control what your visitors see.
- Â View in high quality
Youtube gives you the option to switch to high quality videos for some of the videos. Â To check if a video is available in high quality:
append ‘&fmt=18′(stereo, 480 x 270 resolution)
or
‘&fmt=22′(stereo, 1280 x 720 resolution) for even higher quality - Embed Higher Quality Videos
The above trick works for playback. Â To embed high quality videos:
append “&ap=%2526fmt%3D18″
and
“&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″
to the embed url - Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
Linking to a video where the real action starts at 3 minutes 22 seconds, wondered if you could make it start at 03:22? You are in luck.
All you have to do is add #t=03m22s (#t=XXmYYs for XX mins and YY seconds) to the end of the URL. - Hide the search box
The search box appears when you hover over an embedded video. To hide the search box add ‘&showsearch=0′ to the embed url. - Embed only a part of Video
append ‘&start=30′ to skip first 30s of the video
where any number can be substituted for 30\ - Autoplay an embedded video
add ‘&autoplay=1′ to the url part of the embed code - Loop an embedded video
Append ‘&loop=1′ to make the video start again automatically after reaches the end. - Disable Related Videos
Remove other people’s content:
add ‘&rel=0′ to the end of the url part of the embed code - Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
Some videos are only available in certain parts of the world. Your IP Address is used to determine your location and then allow or deny access to the video. Change the url from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<somecode> to http://www.youtube.com/v/<somecode> - Download Video
Although not inherently a youtube trick but useful all the same for downloading videos. Just change youtube to kickyoutube in the url of the video and it will take you to kickyoutube.com with all the options for downloading the video you were watching.
How to find theme site is using
How to tell if a site is Wordpress or not.
- Right-click on page
- View Page Source
- Ctrl-F (to find in page)
- Search for the word “wp-content”
- If it is a wordpress site you will see wp-content throughout the source
How to find out the Theme:
- Searching the source (as above)
- search for
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://phylliserck.net/wp-content/themes/twenty-ten/style.css“ - changing phylliserck.net domain to the domain name of the site you’re looking at
- the style name is between /themes/ and /style.css
e.g.
twenty-ten
2nd winter class added
W12-030.2:Â Wordpress – Web Development for the Right Side of Your Brain
This class focuses on using the free open-source software called Wordpress. Wordpress makes it easy to create and deploy your own professional webstie. The user interface is designed to let you present your business or ideas in an attractive format to the public without having to know complex programs. Learn setup, common uses, how to add plugins and design themes and search engine optimization as well as integration with common free social networking tools like Youtube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. No prior knowledge of HTML, web publishing or ownership of an existing website required. But, you should be familiar with web browsers such as Internet Explorer and programs to format text such as Word.
Fridays, Jan 20-March 2 (no class Feb 24)
9am – noon
$81
| taught throughThe Lifelong Learning Center 310 South Curtis Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-8765 |
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Meetup special presenter Rose Lockwood
Start your year off with an inspiring presentation by Analyst, Rose Lockwood. Rose splits her time between the UK and Montana and specializes in language technology. Check out her LinkedIn profile.
Information Architecture can make or break the usability of your website. Rose will share her experience developing information taxonomies and will demonstrate her latest project LangTechNews.
Rose has worked for several decades in the area of automated language translation. Wordpress core provides multilingual support. Bring your machine translation questions for consideration by a leading expert in this field.
Date:Â Jan. 4, 2012
Time:Â noon-1pm
Location:Â Ruby’s Inn & Convention Center
4825 N Reserve St
Missoula, MT
Cost:Â FREE
Montana WordPress Meetup
The December Montana Wordpress Meetup proved to be another good tech-networking opportunity. Â This months meeting format was open forum. Â We went around the table and took 5-min or so each talking about things we’re doing with WP.
- Ednor aka Bob Wire – had copies of his new Christmas CDs Off-white Christmas for everyone. His cool CD website done in Wordpress of course, is at offwhitechristmas.com
- Krista has been doing some cool reusable Theme customizations and demoed her cool photography site.
- Rebecca recommended Cafe Press for jit merchandising
- Bridget is implementing SEO techniques she learned in Rebecca’s class on the Solor Flashlights site.
- Jamie is keeping busy working on his wife’s Bette Boomer site and his New Zealand vacation home site.
- Nora is teaching an advanced wordpress class Beyond the Wordpress Dashboard starting Jan 18
- Phyllis compared and contrasted contact form plugins Contact Form 7 and Custom Contact Forms.
- Stephanie has been working with plugins mailpress and Blog-in-Blog.
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Winter 2011-12 WordPress Class
W12-030: WordPress-Web Development for the Right Side of Your Brain
This class focuses on using the free open-source software called WordPress. WordPress makes it easy to create and deploy your own professional website. The user interface is designed let you present your business or ideas in an attractive format to the public without having to know complex programs. Learn set up, common uses, how to add plugins and design themes and search engine optimization as well as integration with common free social networking tools like Youtube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. No prior knowledge of HTML, web publishing or ownership of an existing website required but you should be familiar with web browsers such as Internet Explorer and programs to format text such as Word.
Fridays, Jan 9-Feb 13
9am – noon
$81 (early bird $76)
| taught throughThe Lifelong Learning Center 310 South Curtis Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-8765 |
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Tweaks & Tricks from Rebecca
Here are some more tricks to help with SEO your site that I learned about in Rebecca’s class today:
Plugins
- All in One SEO
- Google XML Sitemaps
- No Duplicate
- SEO Friendly Images (not sure if it works with NextGen Gallery)
- StatPress (same as Stats in JetPack)
- Cbnet Ping Optimizer
- Core Tweaks
- Google Analytics
Add List of Ping Services to Settings -> Writing -> Update Services
Setting -> Permalinks
change to Custom Structure
/%postname%/
or
/%category%/%postname/ – if you’re using categories
Plugin for Cloning site – WP Twin
To find just your pages indexed on Google
search: Â site:<yourdomainname.com>
All-in-one page level settings
Title – will override page title (the link that shows up on Google)
Description – 164 characters (what shows under link in Google)
Tools Used
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How to add a store
To add an Amazon store to your site like I’ve done here.
- Go to Amazon Associates
- Register and setup your account
- Click aStore tab
- Click Add a Store button
- Follow the intuitive instructions for setting up categories
- Finish and copy link
- copy iframe code
- Create a Page on your site for the Store
- switch to HTML mode and paste the iframe code
- Choose a fullpage template
- Publish
WordPress Security Tips
- Ken Dawes, The Web Mechanic
Here are some great tips from Ken Dawes’ presentation “How to Improve Wordpress Security“. Ken was a guest speaker in Rebecca Holman’s class More WordPress-Tweaks, Tricks and Marketing Ideas.
Check out Ken’s website for more about his service offerings.
- Delete user “admin” – create a new admin account first
- change first and last name and nickname
- Choose a secure password – don’t use the word “password”
- Login LockDown plugin
- Check your Theme for the tinthumb update
- AntiVirus plugin
- WordPress Firewall 2 plugin – you’ll have to add your own ip address to edit your site
- Block Bad Queries (BBQ) plugin
- Update Unique Keys plugin – logout and log back in again
- Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin – alternative for Akismet
- BulletProof Security plugin
Other non security
- permalinks -custom /%post_id%/%postname%/
- use a 404 redirect plugin if you already had a lot of links
- Core Tweaks WordPress Setup – cleanup first installations (sitemap etc.)
- WP-DBManager plugin – alternative to WP-DB-Backup
- Filezilla - ftp (file transfer protocol) manager – to backup all your media files such as images and pdf’s
Another Security Plugin that is widely used:
- WP Security Scan plugin – set and forget
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Anchors with id
In HTML a link tag is called an “anchor” tag. That’s why it start with <a. A is for Anchor.  If you want your link to go to a spot inside a page/post, you put an id in the page/post and then link using the # sign.
Here are the steps:
- Add the id within quotes
<h2 id=”name-can-be-anything-without-spaces”> - Add the link using the # sign
<a href=”#name-can-be-anything-without-spaces”>
This video demonstrates this along with how to add a page that links to an anchor with an id.
http://youtu.be/OtrT0AsTwfo
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