flickpress
flickpress is a WordPress plugin that adds a multi-user popup tool to the WordPress toolbar for browsing and inserting Flickr photos into posts.
Search or browse recent Flickr photos, tags, favorites, and photosets for multiple users – then insert various sizes of photos into your posts. In addition to searching and browsing photos for known users, flickpress also supports searching for Creative Commons, government, and Flickr Commons photos. Photo captions are included by default, but may be disabled. It is up to you to determine whether your use of a photo is allowed or requires attribution – please honor photo publishers’ licenses.
Installation
You must have your own Flickr API key and enter it at Settings -> flickpress for the plugin to work.
flickpress should work with the most recent release of WordPress. If you are testing the development version of WordPress and find flickpress does not work, please let me know.
There is a widget and old school template function for adding a user’s recent photos to your sidebar – see the readme for details. To use the widget you’ll need to activate the included widget plugin.
MU-compatibility
I’ve gotten a report that flickpress does not work with WPMU. When I tried it in a testing environment (using subdirectories – I was unable to get subdomains working) it seemed to work fine, both with MU 2.9.1.1 and with WP 3.0-alpha with the MU stuff turned on. If you try it with MU please let me know if it works or not and especially any errors you see.
Get flickpress
You can get the latest version of flickpress from the WordPress Plugins Directory.
Encouraging development
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Svein said:
I am looking around for the perfect Flickr plugin. So far I have not been too lucky. Here is how I think it should work:
Browse/Search Flickr – same as the advanced search on Flickr. The most important is the ability to set what type of CC version you want to search for.
Insert the picture in the post – Automatically put a caption under the picture that has Photographer: zzzzzz, Creative Commons. Here the name should be linked to the picture page in Flickr and the Creative Commons mention should be linked to the correct license on the creative commons site. It should of course be possible to add more to the caption.
When using a picture from Flickr, most photographers demand a credit. And that is anyway common politeness to do.
I prefer that the caption I add is shown directly under the picture, while the credit is shown on a separate line a little differently styled.
The easy way would maybe be to have three different fields. One for photographer and link, one for copyright and link and one for the normal caption.
The plugin must allow for all the other options for pictures to work – placement, size, etc.
Creative Commons pictures from Flickr is a great resource for bloggers. Up til now, I have not seen any real attempts of streamlining the use of this.
Andre said:
It would be great to have a plugin, where you can insert flickr photo with custom sizes (and not just the sizes provided by flickr)
congdongthongtin.com said:
I find your plugin useful for inserting image from flcikr into posts, howerver post thumbnail can’t be display.
Could you help me ?
Jonathan Zenor said:
Of all of the Flickr plugins I have looked through, this one comes the closest to doing what I want. Very well done.
My only recommendation is to have the photo’s comment imported as the comment in wordpress instead of (or along with) the user and license. Since you do show this info I can copy and paste it without too much trouble, but might as well take the extra step and insert it, right?
As a side request (and probably not going to be requested often) what about giving the option of importing some of the exif data along with the photo? Not necessary because I doubt many would use it, but would be cool to have.
Anyway, I like how this plugin allows me to import photos from multiple Flickr users and has pretty decent search capabilities. Keep up the good work!
Ben Johnson said:
Thank you for the plugin, I am finding with any flickr plugin I use the same issue and I am wondering if anyone can help me.
The plugin installs fine, however once I select insert image the image does not insert and the window does not close. I am able to see the list of images just can’t insert. I am using fire fox on mac osx 10.6, any help would be appreciated. My word press install is the latest version.
Ben
Tarique Sani said:
Thanks for this awesome plugin, but once I enter the api key I get
Fatal error: Call to undefined function flickpress_check_key() in /home/tariquesani/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/flickpress/flickpress.php on line 96
Also I figured out any two plugins which use phpFlickr class will not play well together – activation will fail with a Fatal error.
Thought you might want to know this.
Mike R said:
Hi and thanks for the excellent work. We love the ease of use with your plugin. My wife thanks you immensely as well. We did have one question, is there a way to use the plugin to show pictures that are marked private on Flickr? We were thinking about changing most of our pics to “friends-only” on Flickr but would still like to show select ones on our WordPress-site w/o having to turn off privacy for them.