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Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

posted @ Friday, March 27, 2009 11:43 PM | 16 Comments

After looking at the options available for WordPress plugins for Silverlight, I found one that was outdated and the author’s URL looked to be broken. So I adapted/updated the plugin to work again.

I’ve now provided the Silverlight Plugin for WordPress for an easy way to host Silverlight applications within your WordPress content. You can get the plugin via the WordPress plugin directory by searching on Silverlight or clicking here.

Once downloaded, unzip the contents in your /wp-content/plugins directory. You’ll then be able to activate the plugin and start working with it. Adding content is as simple as adding this text to your post:

[silverlight: myapp.xap]

And you will have your content in your post. You can optionally specify the width, height and minimum Silverlight version required.

Version 1.0.3 (31 MAR 2009) includes:

Ability to add local/absolute Silverlight applications (XAP)
Optionally set width/height/minRuntimeVersion of the Silverlight host plugin
Optionally provide initParams to the plugin

Please leave a comment for things you’d like to see or bugs you find!

tags: silverlight, wordpress

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Comments

Silverlight Travel

3/28/2009 6:56 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Hi Tim,
do you mean with
"After looking at the options available for WordPress plugins for Silverlight, I found one that was outdated and the author’s URL looked to be broken"
my one? www.silverlight-travel.com/.../wordpress-silver...

It is true it is outdated but I hope the Url is not broken. But anyway yours is better. ;-)

Regards from Switzerland
and many thanks for your blog entries
Peter
timheuer

3/28/2009 9:03 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Peter -- ah darn! I didn't see yours -- I was looking in the WordPress plugin directory. I'll add your name to my plugin as a contributor if you don't mind. Your link isn't broken, but the one that was listed in the directory was.
Silverlight Travel

3/28/2009 11:44 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Tim,
thanks for your response. It is not necessary to add my name. But I am proud to got a personal answer from "The Tim Heuer". I hope I can meet you some times in your own a dive shop in Cancun (In the next 5 Years).
Craig Bailey

3/28/2009 4:26 PM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Hi Tim,
The link for the plugin seems to be broken.
But I'll try back again later.
Cheers
Craig
David

3/28/2009 4:56 PM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

I don't currently use Wordpress... but would like to try it out. Is a plugin like this possible when hosted through Wordpress.com or do you have to host the blog yourself?
timheuer

3/28/2009 5:08 PM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

David -- good question. At least on my free test account it looks like plugins are disabled. Take a look here though for getting WordPress setup quickly on Windows: timheuer.com/.../...es-web-platform-installer.aspx
Sid

3/28/2009 11:22 PM | # Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Good work Buddy i am gonna try this one
incubi

3/29/2009 1:25 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Hi Tim,

thanks for refering to my "old" silverlight in wordpress plugin. i've implemented this one a year ago for some test reasons and descided to put in on the wordpress library. i think i've already lost the source ;)

thanks for contributing and keep it up.
greetz, juergen
Daniel

4/23/2009 5:40 PM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Tim,
I really like your plugin, but what I want to be able to do is upload my Silverlight app and then reference the resource in your metatag, maybe by attachment ID or something. Optimally, I would be able to insert it directly into my post from the gallery page.

Thanks, and great work.
Alomohora

5/5/2009 10:12 PM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

how do we do insert two silverlight applications in one page???
timheuer

5/6/2009 7:12 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Alomohora -- just enter the code you want for each one.
Harold

6/5/2009 10:02 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Hi Tim,

Thank you for the plugin. I have a question...
You said that to include the application this line should be written [silverlight: myapp.xap], however it is required to have the XAP application in the same directory as the plugin or can it be in a different place.

Something like:
[silverlight: http://YYYY/myapp.aspx] or
[silverlight: ../../myapp.xap] is this possible ?

Thank you.
_KmL_

8/2/2009 5:59 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

Thank u, very nice plugins
df

10/30/2009 3:33 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

hi. nice plugin so far. but unfortunatelly there is nowhere mentioned, that you have to set the url relative and a "./" is placed in front of the url. also so have the settings for "background" and "onerror" where nice!
timheuer

10/30/2009 9:04 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

df - yes the plugin actually assumes an absolute URL -- i should be clear on the installation instructions.
Ana

1/31/2010 7:37 AM | # re: Silverlight Plugin for WordPress

This is look interesting. I've been using Wordpress but I never tried to use Silverlight Plugin for WordPress. I would like to try this application and then to suggest to all my friend who use Wordpress.

Thanks Tim, your post is great. I looking forward to see a new topics and ideas on your site.