Enhance Your Blog with Apture
I recently came across a WordPress plug-in that really puts a bit of spice into your blog postings. In fact, this is one of the most useful plug-ins that we have seen in a long time. Apture basically allows you to insert any form of multimedia or file within your blog post very simply. Once you have installed the plug-in and signed up your account, you can interact with the friendly dashboard and can get quick access to all forms of content to really enhance your blog.
How often have you come across a blog with a lot of great content, but little other than text. As we know, we need to enhance our blog posts with images to keep the readers attention. A page which is full of only text will quickly put your visitor to sleep and you need to insert pictures, images or videos on a regular basis. Apture allows you to do this rather easily. Once you have it all configured, you simply highlight a particular keyword and Apture will automatically pop open showing you related text, images and videos. If you find something that is appropriate, a click or two and the content is inserted into your blog. It can be resized to your liking, but it’s basically as simple as that.
Now, when the reader scans your blog post, he or she can mouse over the highlighted section and a box will pop up including the video, photographs, graphics, maps, audio link or whatever you have selected as appropriate.
This is a much more interesting and much less intrusive way of prettying up your blog. We are all familiar with those plug-ins that simply pop up an advert when you mouse over the highlighted term. Apture pops up more appropriate and informative material that you hand-choose as being most likely to further interest your readers.
In addition to WordPress, Apture is available in a whole variety of versions and will enable you to present a veritable multimedia feast of pop-up links or embeds within every post that you write. You can opt to go to a location on your hard drive and find graphics, additional posts, articles, pictures, slide show presentations – basically you name it. The opportunities and options here are considerable and this solution will take a lot less time than the traditional means of insertion, through your blog platform dashboard.
One of the most useful plug-ins we’ve seen in a long time. What do you think?
Adam Toren
Sounds great. But doesn’t it affect the page download time?
that’s great plugin, but it’s a little bit slow in my pc. however thanks for sharing.
I’ve used apture on a few posts as tests, and yes I think it affects speed. It also doesn’t put the images into your database which can cause problems with some image plugins. But the library it brings up is awesome! I find myself using it like a search engine, but clicking through to the final picture, saving to my desktop and uploading.
Pretty useful. Gotta try it out.
This is the 2nd time I have seen a blog talking about apture. It sounds like a very powerful plugin. So I’m sure we will be hearing much more about it in the coming months.
Very very interesting. Finally something new and fresh in world of wordpress plugins. As it sounds awesome, i think it’s a must to try it out, because readers always appreciate multimedia content.
Actually I just demoed it, its pretty cool if anything it just saves time from having to open up new tabs, etc to try and find photos and videos to add to your site, although if the search is not found fast… I can see this not being worth it as much.
Till then,
Jean
Yes this plugin would be a big time saver and would bring new kind of content to your blog. I saw it on another blog where it would automatically link to people’s personal websites when their name was typed.
If I had my own blog, I would be all over Apture. It sounds like one of the best plugins to come out in a while.