Flash movie will not embed properly

I’m a noob, but this worked for me with the same basic problem. Edit the post, and pick the “Code” tab instead of the “Visual” tab.

Insert your <object> tag inside of a <pre> tag, like this:

<pre>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="263" id="FlowPlayer" data="https://www.archive.org/flv/FlowPlayerWhite.swf">
  <param name="movie" value="https://www.archive.org/flv/FlowPlayerWhite.swf"/>
  <param name="scale" value="noScale"/>
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"/>
  <param name="quality" value="high"/>
  <param name="flashvars" value="config={
    loop: false,
    initialScale: 'fit',
    videoFile: 'https://www.archive.org/download/oca_2007_movie/openlibrary.flv',
  }"/>
</object>
</pre>

Here’s an example on my blog where I’ve done this:
https://www.aohwell.com/?p=5

I find that the PRE tag yields some pretty odd placement results. I tried the DD tag and that seems to do the trick.

Beautiful, don’t know why I never thought of that. Worked great! Now I just need to figure out how to align it in the center…

The PRE tag tells wordpress to not insert P and BR tags around your content. You can avoide that by delete all the line returns. Just delete so that all the object tags are on one line like: .../><param...

You can adjust the PRE style in your style sheet. I’d recommend putting your object in PRE tag with a class like: <pre class="flash" ></pre>

Then edit your style sheet in WP > Design > Theme Editor > Style.css. The name of your style sheet will depend on your theme. Go to the bottom and carefully enter something like:

pre.flash { border:1px solid blue; margin:1em auto; width:400px; background:#eee; }

good luck…

Actually, that was many months ago. WordPress 2.6.2 should not muck with object tags like this anymore.