Get Your Posts To Glitter With Flickr
We bloggers love to add images to our posts as often as possible. The reason being is a common one – a picture is worth a thousand words. I hope you remember my last post, where I introduced to you some cool extensions including Picnik, which happens to be a great extension to handle images on Firefox.
Talking about image hosting="http://gobala.linktrackr.com/hostgator-bs:keywords">hosting, Flickr is one of the most widely used web-based imaging service. Now, you may upload a lot of images at your Flickr account and get your blog posts to display them, wherever and whenever needed. I know this would have been been a dream, until this cool plugin was launched. Yes, I am talking about the Flickr plugin for wordpress.
This Flickr plugin for WordPress allows you to display your Flickr photosets as albums on your WordPress blog. The template is pretty simple and intuitive and totally customizable to match the look and feel of your blog. If desired, you can also hook it up with Lightbox or similar display libraries like – Facebox, FancyZoom and Fancybox.
For the user interface, this plugin adds a new Flickr icon to the WordPress editor allowing you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple of clicks! You also have an option to either link inserted photos to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your Flickr.com photo page.
You may also watch a video of how it all happens here.
Some other salient features of the plugin are :
- Search engine friendly URLs.
- Show or hide your photos that have been marked ‘private’.
- Support for Flickr notes (Firefox only) and Flickr comments.
- Use WordPress shortcodes to easily insert photos from an album into a post. Eg:
[flickr album=1234567]will insert into your post photos from album with id of “1234567?. - Supports WordPress Widgets: Pull in your recent photos into your sidebar.
To get this wonderful plugin for your wordpress blog, click here. Happy flickring! 
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Hmm,
never really been sold on Flickr myself, but as I’m thinking about adding more media to my blogs it’s certainly something I should consider.
The lightbox integration is certainly a cool benefit.
I suppose there’s a lot to be said for keeping your media in one place really, since it’s so much easier to use it in multiple locations that way.
Certainly a plugin that’s worth investigating.
@Amin Pretty correct. Managing media files today across the internet is something which needs a lot of improvisation. I’m sure plugins like these shall help us write better posts!
i am been using this plug-in for a while now and it is a breeze to use.
The plug-in also allows you to query flickr images that are uploaded with Creative Commons” tag and creatively use them on your site.
The “lightbox” effect is a nice addition that “keeps” the visitor on the site versus sending them flick’s way. In either case, it gives the site a slick look
“I suppose there’s a lot to be said for keeping your media in one place really, since it’s so much easier to use it in multiple locations that way.”
I agree with you, but I don’t like the idea of having all my images in one place. If flickr crashed or went broke all my images for all my sites will be lost.