Want to upload videos to WordPress but need to convert them and resize them down for the web? Here’s a great article about free resources available like “WinFF“. The Nose Creek blog goes into details about the proper settings and even provides links to not only download the free software but the best presets that will be available in the WinFF preset pulldowns.
Click here to read the entire informative article.
– Aaron Belchamber
I’ve seen some interesting solutions to making sure files that get uploaded outside of WordPress that are meant to be digested by WordPress get handled. Scripts, plug-ins, etc. The crux of the problem stems from the fact that if you FTP files into your WordPress site’s “uploads” directory, those files won’t show up. That’s because a user didn’t use the media manager to alert WordPress to their existence and essentially register the files in WordPress, which is basically another record in its database.
There’s a simple plug-in that will allow you to find any file on your webserver and transfer those files and import them into the media library. This blog article, though somewhat dated, is still relevant. I’ve used this “Add From Server” plug-in before and works as advertised!
Here’s the link to the article about the challenge “Add From Server” solves:
“How to Bulk Upload Files to the WordPress Media Library”
I hope I saved someone a little time and trouble with their website!
– Aaron Belchamber
The newest version of WordPress is 4.1 and it keeps getting better and more convenient to upload and embed videos on your website. Just a note of caution, however!
Be sure your .mpg/.mp4 video files have an audio track or it is likely your video will not be recognized or play in WordPress.
I’m not complaining, just hoping I will save others who may produce videos the trouble of having to rerender their video files with an audio track when they don’t have one. This isn’t a deal breaker, but it’s also not efficient. After all, if you have a video, say an animation that is without sound, you shouldn’t have to output an empty audio track, it’s just a little more work and makes the files just a little bigger. Not a big deal in the whole scheme of things, but then again, in the aggregate, is still is wasteful and a bit annoying.
– Aaron Belchamber
I recently reviewed ReclaiMe’s free Data Recovery Tutorials and was really impressed at how much free information regarding procedures and steps a company can take to restore, or should I say reclaim their critical data that was lost on a failed hard drive. Read the entire review here.
It happened to a me a few times where I’ve seen $50,000 worth of production and editing work on videos and 3D animations go up in dust. Thankfully, each time I managed to find a way to recover the projects with minimal loss — except perhaps of time and the remaining hair on my head.
Please click here to read the latest review of ReclaiMe’s disk and data recovery tutorials. I’d recommend visiting their website at www.ReclaiMe.com and know where to find the software in case you suddenly lose your hard drive!
In case you ever need to manually validate those pesky multi-field credit card date fields, you know “Month” and “Year” and you want to make sure the expiration is never set prior to the current month for obvious reasons like the credit card would get declined, you need to have the browser client side figure out (or be given the value through PHP injection into your JS script) the last date of the last day of the current month so you can then calculate and compare the “Month” and “Year” fields to this date value.
Using Javascript’s Date object should be adequate for most browsers and IE 8 or greater (there’s a work around to accommodate older browsers, but is it really worth reaching people who are using IE7?! That’s a cost/benefit decision you and your marketing team will have to make.)
dt=new Date(); new Date(dt.getFullYear(), dt.getMonth() + 1, 0, 23, 59, 59)
No Javascript libraries like JQuery is required!