Does Anyone know the best way to add a .swf file to a wordpress header?

[sblackburn]

Hi -

I am trying to add a .swf file as the header to a wordpress blog - a revolution theme and can't seem to locate the correct info on how to do so.

I have found several items on google, but they just don't seem to work.

If anyone has info on the best way to do this that would be wonderful.

I unfortunately just have the .swf file and not the parsed info. If that is needed if you can point me to the best parser that would be great.

Thank you

[Teenage Genius]

I take it the swf is a fairly large file? If it's small then you could always just save the swf as a .gif

Other than that I have no idea, sorry I couldn't be more helpful pal.

Maybe it would be a good idea to look for a Wordpress Designer's Forum or something similar and ask there.

T.Genius

[redneo]

host the swf file to ur hosting directory with 777 chmod. after that embeded the path replacing your logo path in the header.php of the templete.

[sblackburn]

Thanks for the pointers.

I believe that this is the section that I need to embed the file into - but I just can't get the sentax correct:

Where I believe it goes in place of the url(images.header.jpg); :
#header {

background: #85ACAC url(images/header.jpg);

width: 1000px;

height: 200px;

color: #FFFFFF;

font-size: 11px;

margin: 0px;

padding: 0px;

overflow: hidden;

}

Here is my code to embed:

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" height="188" width="521">

<param name="movie" value="images/source_one2.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="images/source_one2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="188" width="521"></object>

Any pointers on the proper syntax would be wonderful

[nextebizguy]

Look for the header.php file for your theme. You can dump the code in there and then adjust as needed. The CSS file is just supplying an image for the header background which you won't need now that you have the SWF. Just comment out the CSS background url/jpg.

Make sense?

[sblackburn]

Thanks for the response:

Here is the section in my header.php file:

<div id="header">
<div class="headerleft"> <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/header.gif" alt="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" /></a> </div>

Should the embedd code replace where /images/header.gif is? I feel like I am just missing something in the syntax - I did try it here and it didn't work properly before.

The reason I pointed to the stylesheet is that when I originally pointed the header.php to a different image it didn't change anything - but pointing the stylesheet did.

Thanks in advance

[Gimme4Free]

/images/header.gif

Change this bit to the path to your SWF

[sblackburn]

Originally Posted by Gimme4Free

/images/header.gif

Change this bit to the path to your SWF

I have tried this and it doesn't work pointing directly to the .swf file - I believe the embed code needs to go here - but when I just replace the /images/header.gif with the embed code it fails

[Paul Buckley]

Here's a better question: why would you want "flash" (.swf) on your website? It's bad for SEO. Robots can't read it and Google, et al, takes a dim view of sites using it.

If you want to generate revenue from your website or improve your search engine rankings avoid "flash". If you just want to "brand" yourself and don't require search engine traffic, by all means, "flash" to your hearts content.

[nextebizguy]

Originally Posted by sblackburn

Thanks for the response:

Here is the section in my header.php file:

<div id="header">
<div class="headerleft"> <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/header.gif" alt="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" /></a> </div>

Ok, I'll give it a try but this is hard without trying it on my own WP install.

<div id="header">
<div class="headerleft"> <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/header.gif" alt="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" /></a> </div>

All this stuff is just basic WP/PHP code to pull your default blog name and description. You can chuck it assuming you have all the blog/site info your SWF.

Try replacing your header code with this (make a backup first ok?!)

<div id="header">
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" height="188" width="521">

<param name="movie" value="images/source_one2.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="images/source_one2.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="188" width="521"></object>
</div>

Let me know what happens.