The theme can be found in the WordPress Plugin Directory

Support questions can be posted in the comments section of the plugin page here.

WordPress 2.9 was released with the ability to auto-embed media, such as youtube videos, in posts by simply pasting a plain text URL into the post content.  I have thought for some time that it would be really great to be able to borrow from the idea behind the shortcode in text widget trick to enable the same auto-embed functionality in my text widgets.

With the help of a couple of my fellow StudioPress forum moderators, Charles Clarkson and Gary Jones, I now have a solution!  The YouTube video in the footer of this site, for example, is placed using the [embed] shortcode to automatically embed the video.

This trick can be acomplished by adding the following code to the functions.php file in your sites active theme directory.

//Enable AutoEmbeds from Plain Text URLs in Text Widgets
add_filter( 'widget_text', array( $wp_embed, 'run_shortcode' ), 8 );
add_filter( 'widget_text', array( $wp_embed, 'autoembed'), 8 );

This should allow both plain text urls in text widgets and the [embed] shortcode:

Examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymwkZC5_hY8

Would look like this:

[embed width="250" height="165"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymwkZC5_hY8[/embed]

Would look like this:

Child theme can be downloaded from here

This pretty much sums up my feelings about Search Engine Optimization tactics in general. 1% Common Sense and 99% Craziness.

First,  I’m going to be in Boston this weekend for the first ever WordCamp Boston!  I’ll be speaking on the Parent/Child theme structure.  It will be a great conference and I’m really looking forward to networking and all the great stuff that the event planning group has put together!

On January 28th the first Hudson Valley WordPress Meetup will convene.  This will be an informal meeting to establish the group and get to know each other.

My next trip will be down to Nashville to attend and lead 2 workshops at the Blissdom Conference.  I’ll be meeting so many people I’ve had the opportunity to work with over the last year and change, It’s very exciting!

Last, but not least,  I’ll be speaking in the WordPress track at the CMS Expo in Chicago from May 3rd-5th.  I’m honored to be asked to present and I’m looking forward to the chance to help spread the wonderful world of WordPress to a group that does not already use it.  The fact that WordPress is being brought into Content Management circles more and more shows that the platform has matured beyond blogging. Something I’ve seen since I first started working with the system nearly 4 years ago.

That covers my planned schedule for the immediate future. It’s subject to change and expansion

Choosing the Right theme for Your blog

Introduction to WordPress Theming

The sample theme that was discussed briefly in the Intro to Creating Themes Session can be downloaded

[shortcodekeyword]
Sometimes they will have other information along with them like this:

[shortcodekeyword value='somevalue']

Since WordPress 2.5 the process of outputting shortcode has been simplified. Unfortunately it’s not posssible, out of the box, to use shortcodes in the sidebar text widgets. Enabling this feature is simple, though. Simply add the following line to the functions.php file in your active theme:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

Of course, if the thought of adding code to your theme gives you hives you can always use this plugin: Sidebar Shortcodes

Read more on the WordPress.org Blog

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