Why won’t Flash movie load?

  • I made a Flash movie that works fine locally and on non-WP sites (reads images from an xml file and displays them). But in WordPress, I can’t get the movie to appear. The problem is not that the movie isn’t finding the images. The movie itself won’t load. Everything is in the same directory, so there shouldn’t be any path issues.

    I’ve tried embedding it with Adobe’s built-in AC_FL_RunContent (CS4), tried swfObject and also jQuery. Each time, I get squat. I also tried a few plug-ins, none of which worked. Note that I do not want to put the Flash in a post or page, so short code (like what Kimili generates) isn’t a solution. I just want to embed the damn thing on a permanent part of a custom template page, like I can on a normal, freakin’ site.

    Why must this be so hard in WordPress??

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  • Are you using absolute or relative urls? You need to use the former in WordPress.

    Thread Starter The Daleks

    (@tunghoy)

    Thanks for your reply. I just got the movie running and loading the XML. Not only did I have to use absolute references, but I had to include the https:// protocol AND had to put everything in the server’s root. When I used the absolute reference to the template folder, the thing wouldn’t run.

    Fortunately for this case, I have full admin rights to the server and can re-code the ActionScript to find the XML with the absolute path. But if I ever have to do this in a case where I’m restricted, I’ll be banging my head against the wall again.

    It’s pretty bad that WordPress can’t find assets that are all in the same folder with no path specified.

    soamz

    (@soamz)

    Hi Tunghoy,
    Good to know, you got this fixed.

    Do you mean, you entered the XML path inside the SWF to full URL to the XML ??

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