Slickr Flickr WordPress Gallery Plugin

Friday, 19 March 2010 16:21

When it comes to image gallery plugins, there are tons of options available. In this article we will be sharing with you a plugin that displays your Flickr photos into WordPress posts, pages, and/or sidebar widgets. Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin by Russell Jamieson is an easy to use plugin that is great for all blogs.

Why use Flickr?

Most of you are probably thinking why someone should use Flickr, when they can simply upload the photos on their host. Flickr is great for event photos because it is really easy to make it public. Flickr can be connected with Facebook, WordPress, and any other app that you want. It saves your bandwidth, and it increase exposure.

We started our Flickr account today after we created our Events category. This is a great way to really connect with our audience.

Features

Displays tagged Flickr photos as a gallery or a unbranded slideshow (i.e not Flickr’s own slideshow widget)
Uses “slickr-flickr” shortcode to make adding a Flickr show as easy as possible
Can display more than one gallery or slideshow on the same page
Can display slideshows in sidebar widgets
Can display slideshows at medium and small Flickr Photo sizes (500 by 375 and 240 by 180 px)
Can display slideshows as portrait or landscape
Best fits the slideshow if a mix of landscape and portrait photos are used
Can display captions for each photo in the slideshow using the photo’s title from Flickr
Can alter slideshow settings for each individual slideshow by including attributes after the shortcode (e.g orientation=”portrait”)
Uses Lightbox jquery plugin to display each photo in the gallery using an overlaid window

Installation

Simply Upload the plugin and Activate it.
Go to Settings » Slickr Flickr.
Insert your Account ID, if you don’t know what your account ID is (this cool tool will tell you).
Add shortcodes or widget, and you are good to go.

What are you waiting for? Get the Slickr Flickr WordPress Gallery Plugin and add your Flickr albums to your WordPress posts, pages, and/or sidebar widgets.