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Apture – Multi Media Blog Posting Solution
By Mark | September 24, 2008
My friend Mark from Health and Wellness introduced my to a new service (free of course) called Apture. Just hover over the link to view the video that will open in a new window over this page.
So you show your site visitors related reference material without sending them off never to return.
Wow, is this cool.
They do a better job of explaining how it works than I can but as a summary:
- You write your post.
- You highlight words you want to link to
- Links appear to blogs, videos (here’s one of mine about creating EasyHyperLinks), documents, articles
- You select what you want
- An icon is placed next to the link
- Your post is multimedia rich
I’ve overloaded this post as an example
Here’s my personal blog at TheAntiHype
Just heads over to Apture and download the plugin (works on most blogs). It’s a page of php code. Upload to your blog in normal way. Activate and full instructions are provided.
I did have a slight delay as the theme I’m using required me to insert a line of php code into the footer. Dead easy to do though – just follow the instructions.
Have fun.
Mark
P.S. Are any of you are WordPress experts? If so I’d love to hear from anybody who can explain to me why over the past few weeks, every so often some of my posts seem to be published multiple times. If I return to the admin area and log out they then seem to disappear. Spooky!
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