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Posting PowerPoints in WordPress
March 18, 2012 | 
Author Embeds into WordPress
The most reliable embeds of PowerPoints into WordPress Posts and Pages found so far is using Google Docs viewer WordPress plugin by F.Davis.
Here is the Modeling Course Notes PDF[Univ Of Michigan Professor Scott Page - excellent free course
very highly recommended - see here]:
Here is, from the same Modeling Course, some PowerPoint Slides:
The syntax is simple using a WordPress Shortcode with some straightforward options:
[gview file=”http://example.com/modelslides.pptx” width=’700 ‘ height=’500′ ]
Note 1: the file URL cannot be relative but must be a fully epanded url – http://example.com…
Note 2: the gview shortcode must be directly adjacent to [ no blank space – [gview file…
Users can control the width and height of the displayed PowerPoint as shown above or use the default values which can be changed in the WP Settings tab.
Other option codes are:
save= (optional) Enter a value (1 to show, 0 to hide) to override the default display setting for the download link.
authonly= (optional) Add authonly=”1″ to only show the download link to logged-in users on an individual file.
cache= (optional) Add cache=”0″ to disable integrated document caching (useful only for frequently overwritten files).
lang= (optional) Enter a supported language’s ISO 639-1 Language Code to override the global Default Language setting.
This plugin is robust and supports viewing of many filetype beyond PowerPoints including:
Adobe PDF
Microsoft Word (DOC/DOCX)
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX)
Microsoft Excel (XLS/XLSX)
TIFF Images
Apple Pages (PAGES)
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
Autodesk AutoCad (DXF)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
PostScript (EPS/PS)
TrueType (TTF)
XML Paper Specification (XPS)
Archive Files (ZIP/RAR)
It is a pleasure to have so many file types available in WordPress.
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New WordPress 3.1
The updated WordPress 3.1 is out and adds a lot of capabilities which will delight developers – yes, its one of those behind the UI screens updates as seen in the screenshot below:
WordPress users who have updated to WordPress 2.9 will have an easy install/update to 3.1 [one of the key competitive advantages of WordPress over Drupal and Joomla cited here]- just press Update automatically and the update is done in less than ten second. O course this assumes you have been doing aregular database backup [see excellent free plugin here]. The requisite site backup will add 1-15 minutes depending on the number of posts, comments, and pages.
Here are some of the additional new features:
1 – improvements to Tools – Export and Tools – Import commands – simpler syntax, faster speeds
2 – more control over admin look and feel
3 – post types can have unique post formats – new theme designer feature
4 – new Network Admin menu workflow for MU-multiuser sites
5 – also new Link menu workflow [ye Editor could not find the difference]
6 – new archive types for custom content pages/posts
In sum, this is modest update with most of the features to appear as theme, widget and plugin developers take advanatge of new backend goodness.