Easter Bunny Cake
March 29th, 2008
I just wanted to post this little video I put together on Easter (filmed on The Flip!) that shows Bunny Cakes being assembled. But of course, I had to be difficult, and embed the video rather than posting a link (since I want to start using more video in general). My version of Wordpress was too old to use the plugin I wanted, so I decided to upgrade to the one that was released just this afternoon. Bleeding edge, baby. So, of course I had to import my tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior, and then of course, I had to pick a new theme (since it should *look* different if I bothered to go to this trouble), then I had to add random junk into the theme… And then something about the Apache configuration wasn’t allowing my plugin to work, which we spent hours looking at (literally). And now my plugin breaks some of the new WordPress version… It always amazes me how much time you can sink into this kind of stuff.
Wordpress 2.5 seems very nice, by the way. I just noticed it is auto-saving this post as I write it. Also, I was having some problems with the visual editor stripping out all my line breaks (maybe because I’m using Safari), and that seems to be resolved. The interface in general looks very nice as well. And thanks to the SVN option, future upgrades will be very easy!
So anyways, here is the video (be sure to watch all the way to the end to see the special cameo from the Easter Bunny himself!) Click on the picture to watch it. It’s only about a minute long. If you click on it and you don’t see video starting up, please download the latest version of Quicktime.
5 Comments Add your own
1. Manish | March 31st, 2008 at 8:07 am
Hi, I was wondering how did you embed the video in your post. I am trying to do the same but I just get a link to the video. I am also using WP 2.5 Are you using any plugin for this ?
2. Melinda Weathers | March 31st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Hi Manish,
I am using the “Embed Quicktime” plugin. Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me right out of the box. The js files included in it have extra dots in their names that my Apache configuration didn’t want to serve. Once I got all the file names straightened out, the plugin works great, but the jQuery javascript it uses now messes up parts of my WP Admin interface (the part that allows you to upload media) — so I end up disabling the plugin to upload media, and then re-enabling it. jQuery must be conflicting with whatever WP 2.5 is using. I figure I’ll wait a little while to see if somebody issues an update, or maybe just start posting video to YouTube and embed the YouTube player instead. Then I won’t be eating up space on my server with videos either. Let me know what you end up doing!
3. Manish | March 31st, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hi Melinda,
I figured out how to post videos in WP 2.5 without using any plugin.
Once you have uploaded the video, get its url (link), ( you must use visual editor) click on Show/Hide Kitchen Sink button, then click insert/edit embedded media and put the link there. Hit save/publish and check.
Hope that helps. I would suggest disabling the “embed quicktime” plugin first so that it does not interefere with WP 2.5 default quicktime player.
4. Melinda Weathers | April 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Cool, I will definitely try it out!
5. Ross & Mom | April 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Saw the bunny production. They tasted as good as they looked.
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