How to have Flash embeds in a wordpress.com blog

It is possible to have Flash embeds in a wordpress.com blog very easily although wordpress.com Support says otherwise.

Flash and Other Embeds

Flash and all other embeds are not allowed in WordPress.com posts, pages, or text widgets. For security reasons, we remove the tags needed for these to work. Your intentions may be innocent, but someone somewhere would try to damage the site, affecting all of our users.

There are several safe ways to post Videos, Audio, and other items to your WordPress.com blog.

- From wordpress.com Support Doc

Actually, it is possible to have Flash embeds in a wordpress.com blog in not one, but TWO methods!

Embed Flash in a wordpress.com blog: method 1

I first learned how to embed Flash in a wordpress.com blog from Panos. Read his posts under the category gigya and you will learn how to add Flash embeds in a wordpress.com blog!

And here is a video by ThePanicButtonBlog that explains that method .

Embed Flash in a wordpress.com blog: method 2

You can embed Flash stuff in your blog very easily using Vodpod.

GeekyCoder has explained how to Embed ‘ANY’ Flash widget in WordPress.com using the incredible Vodpod.

Basically, you have to install the Vodpod Firefox extension for wordpress, which turns any Flash code into a wp.cpm-friendly shortcode.

Now, “everybody” knows that Vodpod can embed any video even in wordpress.com so long as it gives you a Flash embed code. But “nobody” knows that Vodpod is equally capable of converting other Flash embeds into a wp.com-friendly shortcode.

Here is the same video, but the embed here is a Vodpod.

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Now that you know how to have Flash embeds, go ahead and have fun!
Nothing’s gonna stop us now!
(Well, we still don’t know how to post iframe codes and javascript codes – but let’s not fret about it now!)

Post Update
Feb, 23, 2011

Actually I have totally outsmarted myself.
Now I also know how to embed iframe widgets in a wordpress.com blog.

Express yourself in a new way using Sketchcast

Sketchcast is a fun website where you can draw online for free. The drawing process is recorded as a Flash movie and you can embed it in your blog!

Note: A Sketchcast drawing can also be embedded in a wordpress.com blog!

Here is an example Sketchcast created by moi!

Alternately, you can link to your sketchcast. This is the link for my creation:
Whirlwind

You can even email it to friends, If you do not have a blog, maybe emailing it to your friends is a good idea if you want to share your creation.

I know that my drawing isn’t much to look at and I know that you can do a LOT better than me, So go ahead, make a Sketchcast, share the url of your creation in a comment and make me jealous!

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psst: The embed code they give you is not compatible with wordpress.com since it is Flash. But I modified the code and created a shortcode that works in wordpress.com.
Credit: Panos is the genius who figured out how to modify flash codes so that we can embed Flash stuff in our wordpress.com blogs!