New Contributor and Author user permissions
Besides other new interesting features there's really useful one.
We've added contributor and author permissions into the FV Player editor.
WordPress
Recent WordPress Update Breaks Custom Upload Folders
Are you getting the "Unable to create directory ../images/2019/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?" error?
Promote Your Video On a Budget
You grasp for fans for videos you passionately prepare but nobody watches? Do you have just enough money to buy monthly Spotify license but would like to pay ad promotion too? Calm down, there are ways to promote content without ripping your wallet off. Or more precisely, there are ways to promote for free. You only need to squeeze all out of social media's offer.
Here's how!
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Cloud Hosting Providers where videos cannot be stored for playback on your website: OneDrive, ADrive, Dropbox
Choosing a Cloud Hosting to store all your videos on and stream them to your website may seem like an easy-to-do thing but the reality is often a totally different story.
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Top 7 Sites To Visit To Learn More About Online Marketing
You might be a complete beginner in online marketing, searching for reliable websites to educate yourself a bit at home, but you just don't know what link to open. Or maybe you just look for quality marketing content for your job and don't want to waste time browsing the Internet for hours. Well, even though both situations sound unpleasant, lucky you. We've got your needs covered.
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New FV Player Screen Options
Adding a video database into our FV Player was one of the biggest improvements we've done so far. With our new Screen Options, it's even better!
Guide to the World’s Most Beautiful Free Stock Photographs
Where to find the most beautiful stock photography in the world for free in 2019. Must see list for content publishers & social media managers.
How to Create Burned-In Subtitles Using YouTube and HandBrake
Most people, 85% of them, watch videos without sound. To make sure your message gets through, consider burning your subtitles into your videos.
FV Player – a perfect match for NintendoReporters.com
Patrick Dankers was looking for a better, simpler and faster video solution for his site and found a perfect match in FV Player.
The Kingdom
Bhutan, located in Southern Asia, is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India. This little country is the number one in the percentage of protected land in Asia. More than 60 percent of Bhutan is forested which makes Bhutan the only carbon negative country in the world.
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The Perfect Christmas Gift Cheatsheet
We've come up with a simple list of all the measurements you might need to buy your special someone a present.
Top Christmas commercials of 2018
Long before the snow even starts to cover the roofs of our houses and temperature drops to zero we are reminded to rejoice in upcoming Christmas time by commercials. Some find them too annoying, some think they create a certain holiday atmosphere. One way or another, there are commercials which are worth watching. Touching, funny, sweet, there are many of them, but no matter what genre, they all make us feel like celebrating Christmas whatever month it is right now.
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Project Gutenberg – Subverting WordPress.org for .com marketing
People who use WordPress to publish their poetry, their photographs or communicate to their customers their small business (about 30% of the internet) may not even know about Project Gutenberg. Ostensibly Project Gutenberg began as a new editor. Given how mediocre the WordPress TinyMCE editor has been from inception (note: we created FV WYSIWYG on FCKedit ten years ago and it's still the only editor which allows a writer to switch to code view and back again and not have all his/her paragraphs and line spacing arbitrarily changed), a new editor is a laudable goal.
Unfortunately Project Gutenberg turned out not to be an upgraded post editor but a new vision of WordPress in permanent Page Builder mode. There have been serious writings about the tyranny of choice. By forcing writers to make decisions about blocks, multiple photo layouts, forms, sliders every time they create a new paragraph, there are two results likely:
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How to optimize your video for Facebook
If you’re trying to breakthrough on Facebook with your videos here are some tips on how to gain success.
Creating custom video splash screens: Best practices
When it comes to video splash screens, you should always customize and pick something easily recognizable.
How to Setup LastPass On Subdomains
What is LastPass and why you should use it
As they say, the only secure password is the one you can't remember. This is the idea that keeps password managers like LastPass going. With LastPass, you only need a one super-strong master password (there goes the name—"the last pass you'll ever need"), which can be a line from your favourite song translated to a different language you speak, a quote from a movie, or any other phrase that is not too easy to hack.
Once you've entered the master password, LastPass will let you access your credentials for every other account saved in LastPass (Facebook and Twitter logins, e-mail, etc.) or do the autologin (If you activated it. Don't do it.). This way, you can use strong generated passwords for your accounts, without having to remember them or writing them down.
The great thing about LastPass is that it stores your data encrypted online and the data is only decrypted locally in your browser with your key, which even LastPass itself does not have. This way, LastPass users are protected from hacker attacks like the ones that happened to Adobe or Apple users.
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Bad UX: How Medium’s comment system kills engagement
Medium's non-existent login
Let's start with Medium Login. What user hating, social media centric tool ever dreamed up temporary sign in via email? If you want to log in to Medium via your email, you can't do it with email and password. You have to send a new email to yourself (which takes somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes to arrive) and click on the link within 15 minutes.
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Alec Kinnear Interviewed about Running a WordPress Business and FV Player
Last week, Alec was interviewed by John Overall about WordPress, running a WordPress business and our products—FV Player and BusinessPress.
10 Best WordPress Podcasts You Should Start Listening to
The podcasts are slowly but steadily winning over the global audience. According to a research conducted in 2017, 67 million Americans listen to podcasts monthly (14% up in just one year) and spend on average about 5 hours per week listening to podcasts. Impressive, right? With our love for multitasking, no wonder podcasts are getting so popular: listening to a podcast can make the time spent cleaning your apartment or commuting much more worthwhile.
The statistics say that most of the podcast listeners are young, educated, affluent active social media users - basically a portrait of a WordPress developer or a digital business owner, which explains the fact that there is such a great variety of WordPress podcasts to choose from.
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2017 Year in Review: a Look Back And New Year’s Resolutions.
2017 was a great deal for us in Foliovision! We've worked a lot on polishing our products and services as well as on getting more visibility on the market.
This year, we had our first Black Friday sale and got listed in about 20 different Black Friday sales roundups, yay! It was a great experience, but we still have so much to learn. Many thanks to all of you who decided to partner up with us, especially to MasterWP, WP Mayor, Winwar.uk, WPulsar, WP Newsify, PressAvenue, you guys rock!
This year was also pretty awesome for us on social media. Alec's post on Markdown editors and Sanela's post on free stock video resources got shared more than 590 times each!
But the most important thing for us, of course, is that our beloved child, FV Player, grew so much in the past year! We welcome so many new pro users of FV Player Pro in addition to the 30,000 active sites using the free player. We've received 15 new reviews of our player on WordPress.org, and all of them were 5-stars!
The FV Player got lots of new tweaks and features and became the most feature-rich video plugin for WordPress on the market. Here is how it happened:
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