Flickr and Wordpress integration

As you can see there have been quite a few changes on this blog. Since my posting activity is going towards zero I decided to make this a blog for both text and photos. Since I am not sure yet whether I want to add all my photos on flickr retrospectively I just added a few to try things out. If you are not interested in photos, just click the “Text only” link on the upper right hand side. Enjoy the new setup!

For those who want to know how to do something like this, read on…

The photos are put on the blog via the “Blog this” functionality that can be found on the single photo pages of flickr. In order to use this you need to be a registered member at flickr and the photo you want to post to your blog needs to be marked public. Now, create a new user in your Wordpress blog. I called mine “Ralph via flickr”. Then set up your blog with the newly created user in your flickr account settings. Et voila, everything basically works as planned.

Now the naughty details:

• If you do not like the default way flickr puts its information into your blog posts and want to tweak with the CSS manually, make sure that the user you created has Administrator rights since regular authors are not allowed to add too much style information to their blog posts in Wordpress.
• To offer the visitors the ability to display either, text posts or flickr photo posts, select the displayed posts on your blog by the user who wrote them by setting the ?author_name variable in a link to your front page. In my case the text only link goes here: http://ralphunden.net/?author_name=Ralph

Hopefully that is all. ;-)