Use Apture to Add Multimedia to Your Blog

Although WordPress Dashboard allows you to upload and insert multimedia to a blog post, it may be still a little complex.

Apture is a free plugin which allow you to add multimedia to a blog post in one click, and it is workable for any kind of blogging platform, such as WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, and so on.

There are two big functions for Apture: Add Apture Link and Add Apture Embed. From which, you can add a link to any multimedia or embed any multimedia to the post directly. And what is more, you can search multimedia to be added.

The readers won’t be led to the original web page when they click the link, instead, all the multimedia you link to will be open and performed in an apture window, images can be seen, maps can be used, and videos can be played directly.

Besides images, maps, and videos, you can also link to or embed a reference article, a person, an audio, and so on, anything you want to.

I. So, What kinds of sources can be searched by Apture?

As mentioned before, you can search any multimedia via Apture, and below is a list where you can search for multimedia:

1. Video Search Support: YouTube, Reuters, Truveo, Dailymotion, imeem Video, Hulu, Comedy Central, ESPN, and Metavid.

2. Image Search Support: Flickr, Yahoo Image Search, Wikimedia Commons, and Bing Image Search.

3. Reference Article Search Support: Wikipedia, Amazon, CrunchBase, U.S. Congress, and IMDB.

4. Map Search Support: Google Maps and Street View.

5. Audio Search Support: imeem Music and NPR.

6. Document Search Support: SlideShare, Google Books, and Scribd.

7. Person Search Support: Twitter, LinkedIn, and U.S. Congress.

8. New Article Search Support: Daylife, Reuters, NYTimes, Washington Post, and BBC News.

9. Web Page Search Support: Previous Posts, Yahoo Web Search, and Bing Web Search.

II. Besides search, you can also get and insert multimedia from below ways:

1. Upload files from you computer

• Maximum file size: 5 megabytes.


• Supported document formats: Image, plain Text, RTF, PDF, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, and Open Office.

2. Enter a special url

Enter a URL to any web page, image, video, document, PDF, MP3 or blog post.

3. Link to Embed Code

Enter a snippet of HTML to embed multimedia content or an interactive widget.

III. Once you have got the multimedia, you can make some change before inserting them into the posts:

1. Change the title or caption

2. Resize. Just remember that the Apture has margins, which means the multimedia sizes have to be 12 px smaller than the largest sizes your blog template support.

Everything seems perfect, but all the functions should be done on the blog dashboard, if you write the post from your desktop software (such as WLW) or somewhere else, you have to go the dashboard and add the rich media.

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