Ruslan's Blog : Silverlight

New release of Silverlight Player for WordPress

RuslanY Blog — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:11:56 GMT

Today I have published a new release of the WP Silverlight Media Player plugin for WordPress. In addition to a few important improvements and optimizations, it contains a new feature that allows to track the number of times the video files have been watched and how many of those have been watched until the end. Once you install or upgrade to this version of the plugin you should see a new menu group in the WordPress Dashboard: From that menu you can get to the Statistics page where you can see how many times your site visitors watched your video files: The implementation idea for the statistics page was re-used from the WP-Postratings , which is a very popular plugin written by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. Other improvements in this version...(read more)

Silverlight Media Player for WordPress – Update

RuslanY Blog — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:33:00 GMT

Since the Silverlight Media Player plugin for WordPress was published in January 2009, it has been downloaded more than 900 times . It is being used in many web sites all over the world – here are just a couple of examples: Tribord Amure par Matthieu and Os Taekwon-do Klubb . Today, a new update of the plugin has been released. This update makes it even easier to add video content to your blog posts and pages. Download the latest version of the plugin from here: WP Media Player . The biggest improvement in this version of the plugin is the addition of the user interface for uploading video content and for insertion of the media player into blog posts and pages. Here is how it looks like. Add a media player to a blog post or a page by clicking...(read more)

Silverlight Media Player plugin for WordPress

RuslanY Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:07:00 GMT

At some point I wanted to integrate a Silverlight based player into my blog, so I was looking for a WordPress plugin that would do that. However, I could not find any that was easy enough to use. So I decided to write one myself for self-educational purposes. This post describes and demonstrates the plugin that I wrote and explains how to use it to add Silverlight-based media players to blog posts and pages of a WordPress powered blog. Description and Features The plugin has the following features: Default player configuration settings, such as size, thumbnail, auto load and auto play. Per-instance player configuration settings that can be used to customize each individual player within or across blog posts. Unlimited number of players within...(read more)