Flickr Photo Post

September 23, 2011

Flickr Photo Post Plugin

The Flickr Wordpress Plugin allows you to add flickr images to your wordpress posts incl. a simple crop function.

The Flickr WordPress Plugin works with jQuery and makes it easy to you, to add Flickr images to your WordPress posts or pages. Some flickr users offer their images under a Creative Commons license, so that they can be freely included in your blog posts without any copyright problems.

The Ajax powered search box enables you to search for Flickr photos by matching your keyword. From the preview thumbshots you can chose your image by clicking it.

Once you have the photo selected, choose the size you want add in your blog post or select a rectangle from the image to crop a part of the photo.

Now you can click “Insert into Post” and the selected Photo will be added to your blog post including the required Copyright note and a nofollow image link to the author’s flickr page.

When adding the image in your blog post, you can select the image alignment as none, right, left, or center in the Flickr Media Panel

Key Features

  1. Use 100 million free images from flickr

  2. Full text flickr search box

  3. The Local Image Cache provides an immediate performance benefit

  4. Nofollow link to the author’s flickr site included

  5. Nice full featured, Ajax powered interface

  6. Support for WordPress Image-Caption code

  7. High usability by use of easy interaction components

  8. Select image size from 100 to 640 pixel on the longest side.

  9. You can crop a photo if you need only a rectangular part of the image

  10. Multilanguage I18n: English and German Language Support

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

Follow the steps below to install and acrivate the Flickr WordPress Plugin

  1. Login to your WordPress Blog

  2. Go to Plugins > Add New

  3. Select Upload (Upload the flickr-wordpress-plugin.zip file and click Install now)

  4. Activate the Plugin

  5. You are now ready to use the Flickr WordPress Plugin

Screenshots

  1. <p>Add an image button in "Edit Post" dialog</p>

    Add an image button in "Edit Post" dialog

  2. <p>Select the new "Flickr" tab in the "Add an Image" dialog</p>

    Select the new "Flickr" tab in the "Add an Image" dialog

  3. <p>How to enter a search Term</p>

    How to enter a search Term

  4. <p>How to select an image from the search result</p>

    How to select an image from the search result

  5. <p>Specify the alignment (optional)</p>

    Specify the alignment (optional)

  6. <p>Optionally you can crop a rectangular area from the image</p>

    Optionally you can crop a rectangular area from the image

  7. <p>How to insert the image into the post</p>

    How to insert the image into the post

  8. <p>The image result in your wordpress post</p>

    The image result in your wordpress post

  9. <p>Optionalily you can edit the image with the "Edit Image" function</p>

    Optionalily you can edit the image with the "Edit Image" function

  10. <p>The "Edit Image" dialog</p>

    The "Edit Image" dialog

FAQ

What flickr license types are used by flickr wordpress plugin for displaying Flickr images?

The flickr wordpress plugin will select images published only under the following licenses:

Attribution License
Attribution-ShareAlike License
Attribution-NoDerivs License

Changelog

1.2.3

  • JahresendSEO support removed

1.2.2

  • JahresendSEO support (till 21.09.2011)
  • Thank you in advance

1.2

  • Small bugfix 😉

1.1

  • Solved Problem with get_option()

1.0

  • First public vesion

Details

  • Version: 1.2.3
  • Active installations: 80
  • WordPress Version: 2.8
  • Tested up to: 3.1.4

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