Same song, second verse. Yesterday I posted about looking to other sources to embed a slideshow of my Flickr photos (proud pro account holder for one month!).
Here’s the same photos I posted yesterday but in a Flickr skin:
I like the look, the share features, and the full-screen toggle.
This tool is a digital SLR to Slide.com’s Polaroid camera: the latter still has campy appeal and a distinctive effect, but the former is a lot more practical and professional. Of course, that metaphor breaks down at the cash register. Both Flickr and Slide provide free accounts.
Since starting this Wordpress-powered blog, I’ve experimented with several Flickr plugins.
I’ve tried Wordpress Flickr Manager and Wordpress Media Flickr, which came highly rated by users and made it simpler to add photos to posts. But what I really wanted was something that would display photos in the sidebar. Because, you know, visuals help.
I’ve finally found it: Flickr Photo Gallery by Joe Tan. Look to your right, and you’ll see the fruits of my search. The plugin also came with some nice surprises:
Like the others I tried, this plugin has a function that inserts photos from my photostream into posts. I find this function cleaner than the others.
Flickr Photo Gallery can create a photo gallery page on your site, and all you have to do is create a URL in the plugin settings. Mine is right here.
Here’s a little eye candy after my more pensive post the other day. I took this from a cliff on Spokane’s lower South Hill (see map below) with my simple-but-reliable 6-megapixel Sony Cybershot. For Wordpress geeks out there who use Flickr, I posted it using a recently acquired plugin called “Wordpress Media Flickr” and designed by Yu Ji.
