I’m about a week and a half into blogging and I realized that WordPress has a great back-end but the front end is only as good as the template. As a Flash developer I can make front-ends all day that make users want to drool but the back-end is always the tricky part. I’ve started the preliminary coding/research into making a front-end for WP in Flash. But what I don’t have is the needs of the community in the back of my mind. Again, I’ve only been blogging for a week or so. Therefore if any heavy WP users have specific challenges they need met I’d love to hear about them. Or, if you’re a Flash dev and you know what kind of a class kit you’d enjoy working with to build your own blog’s front-end, leave a comment.
Flash WordPress front-end
Welp, first thing, theres this.
The biggest thing for me would be the manipulation of the loop. If the flash front-end would simply output text into different string variables, that would be enough for my needs; same goes for all of the wp template tags.
The biggest thing for me would be the manipulation of the loop. If the flash front-end would simply output text into different string variables, that would be enough for my needs; same goes for all of the wp template tags.
nice blog
Regards
Dimple
http://medcall.com.au
I can’t discover how to work with HTML tags on Flash. Inside the posts the text are completely desconfigured. Flash is getting this information from an XML file. Could you help me?
That was a roadblock for me and stopped my progress. I couldn’t decide if I wanted flash to display the HTML text or to write my own custom HTML interpreter to make up for Flash’s poor native implementation. It sucks I know. I would love for it to work like AIR does where you can just create new HTML instances and have it actually render HTML.
Honestly, I think the best part about a flash front end would be the ability to customize. The hard part (for designers and bloggers) is getting the WP values into a flash-friendly format. Personally I would want the ability to add photos to a post like always and have flash handle them with preloaders so it could be a gallery-in-a-post rather than requiring a click-through. I would want to be able to “post” a swf and have the template load it like into another mc within the template. I am a designer, and the main appeal for me with a Flash front end would be to use all the things that flash can do that are difficult or tedious with javascript, such as vectors and true animation (as opposed to just moving something around). While flash might offer some cool advantages on the back end, I think the real benefit of a flash WP front end is the design possibilities… otherwise WP feels pretty strong and has tonnes of plugins, which the flash front-end will inevitably disable. I hope you succeed with this… I am eager to get my hands on a good one.
I might suggest to change the font, and add your twitter so we can follow, other than that – nicely done!
Pretty nice site you’ve got here. Thanx for it. I like such themes and anything that is connected to them. I would like to read more on that blog soon.
Sincerely yours