Flickr Photo Album
May 9th, 2007 by admin
Amazing but true. You can display your flickr photo collections as a gallery with albums right inside your WordPress blog. Additionally it will add photo management to your Write pages. Not only can you still use the Upload, Browse All capability of the WordPress Post and Page editor but now you will enjoy two new links to your Flickr photos and albums. When the new links are clicked all your Flickr photos are displayed with pagination (so as not to overwhelm). Daffodil added via Flickr.
Here I link to my album Flower Crazy. Clicking the rose will take you to that album of images right here on my blog. This implementation is WPG2 or WordPress Gallery II. I used the Import From Flicr function and imported the Flickr set Flower Crazy. Editing Posts and Pages gets easier with all the choices of image insertion this plugin offers. Choose from square thumbnails 75X75, thumbnail 100X75, small pic 240X180m medium pic 500X375 and large pic 1280X960 (all clickable). The photos stay available as you work allowing you to pick and choose as you go along editing or writing your content.
I give this plugin a hearty thumbs up. I was pretty hot for Next Gen Gallery plugin but prefer how this particular plugin inserts photos. For instance, Next Gen Gallery does not let you insert clickable images.
Next I’ll have to compare how Gallery2 handles image insertion into Posts and Pages. Stay tuned…
The photos above were inserted via the Gallery2 pop-up accessed by pressing the G2 image button in the Visual Editor. It is a bear to get the images to line up as one would like yet there are some nice options that are accessible with the G2 image insertion interface. I’ll stick in a float right flower…
The fact that September Pastels is not aligned right tells you that function is suspect. I’m sure I could force it but with my recent experience I think I’ll stick with the Flickr tools. Besides, I get Flickr to host my images thus saving my own web space. One drawback I have discovered is if on has a plethora of pictures hosted a Flickr then it takes longer and longer to access your photos here on WordPress.
From Flickr - For Sale by Flash Alexander and Pamela Keener









I like your photos… I want to try and have that kind of photo album… Can you tell me how?…Thanks…
The rose link isn’t working for me, in the post