Two new plugins have been released via the Internet community to more easily embed Slideshare presentations into a WordPress blog.
Now, there certainly was no issue with embedding beforehand, but it required a little knowledge of the HTML button (if you’re using the Rich Text editor) and the embed code seen on each presentation’s page. It wasn’t hard beforehand, but these plugins allow for the use of a permalink instead of the embed code. This may make it a little easier for some.
I use slideshare a lot to host my presentations that I then embed into our class Moodle. Since I teach two content areas (Spanish and Latin) I have lots of presentations. The presentation below was the one mentioned in Businessweek.
Want to see all my presentations?
Via Jonathan Boutelle’s blog.
UPDATE: Embedding the presentation caused my theme to go haywire. Odd. I removed it for now.
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