Nov
4
(2005)
YARtLWPaF (Yet Another Reason to Love WordPress and Flickr) - WordPress 1.6 will have a built-in media browser (complete with drag-and-drop addition of photos to posts via the web interface), and the media manager is integrated with Flickr! That’s so freaking awesome! I won’t have to go to my Flickr account, find the photo, click “All Sizes”, and select the correct size, then copy/paste the code to embed it in my post. I’ll just click a tab, and drag an image in. Rock. On.
It’s already deployed on WordPress.com so you can play with it now if you have an account. I just created a simple post to test it out and it worked pretty well.
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Yeah, it is pretty cool, isn’t it? We’re still working out a few glitches, but I hope that everyone finds it as easy to use as I do.
Owen - it rocks nicely. The only glitch I found was that I couldn’t select a size other than thumbnail to drag into the post. Tried the click-the-image-then-select-the-size thing, but it still just dragged the thumbnail into the post entry textarea. No biggie though.
Very nice work! Looking forward to it!
Ah…
When you click the alternate size, it changes the source of the thumbnail image in the image browser, but doesn’t resize the thumbnail itsself. So when you drag the image into the post, you are actually using the other size image, but it has been resized to the thumbnail’s dimensions by your browser.
This is a point I was trying to illuminate in the comments of my animations at Flickr, and maybe this will make it clearer for you:
If you drag the thumbnail (set at the thumbnail size) into the Post area and then resize it, it will be pixelated and ugly. If you set the size to, say, Medium, and drag that into the Post area, it’ll look the same size, but then when you resize the image in the Post, it will look nice because there is more resolution in the image.
Whatever size the image is in the image browser is by necessity the size it will appear in the Post, but changing the size setting in the image browser allows you to make the image bigger without looking bad.
I hope that clears that up. If I didn’t get your point, please keep talking about it. We’re running a bug-squishing event this weekend for WordPress, and this could be something that needs attention.
Ah! Gotcha. I didn’t think to drag the resize widget dealie on the dragged image - assuming it was just a tombstone sized image. It would be cool if the dropped image was the actual size that was selected in the previous step - otherwise it’s just adding another less-intuitive step to the process (1. select image 2. select size. 3. drag to post. 4. resize image to the size you selected in step 2)
y’know, I’ve been trying doggedly to encorporate some sort of photo blog plugin thingy with my Wordpress. For some reason, I havent been able to get any of the plugins or add-ons to work. php issues, or whatever.
So in the meantime, I’ve reverted to manually including photos in my blog postings, and using PS to do web galleries for me, and linking them at my sidebar.
Take a look here, and click on a sidebar photoset.
Not the best fix, but I will change that as soon as I figger something out.
Npow flickr… I’m not sure I have to/want to pay 25 bucks for it. But perhaps I should… I dunno.
Is flickr worth it in your mind?
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Teddy, Flickr is so totally worth it - and it’s getting better all the time. Very cool service. And, this is from someone who was a big time .Mac subscriber, but just let it lapse because it wasn’t providing the type of service that Flickr does for much less dough.
Especially when combined with the FAlbum plugin for WordPress (it drives the “Photos” section of my blog), and the iPhoto integration for easy uploading. It just doesn’t get better.
Haven’t tried the new print service though, since it’s currently restricted to USAians.
I’ve been a Flickr user for a while, but only recently signed up for Pro. You can use it for free with some minor limitations on quantity of uploads.
The moment I signed up for the Pro account, I regretted it. Flickr wasn’t letting me do things that I wanted to do even with the “Pro” added near my name. But things have changed over time, and I’ve learned to cope with the things I don’t like. And now I put everything on there.
In actuality, the only image files that are on my site that aren’t served from Flickr are the site theme images. And I may yet move those out there, too.
The great advantage to me is that Flickr doesn’t care how big the images are and doesn’t bother me with bandwidth questions. So I don’t have to worry about bandwidth if a thousand people download my enormous 8 Megapixel shot of *whatever* because it’s not my problem.
And now my distant family can make prints if they use a free account, so all the better!
tried falbum - couldnt make it work properly. Im on WP 1.5 or somesuch - July build. Is there a WP 1.6? Ho weasy to update?
The bandwidth thing is a goood consideration, plus the flickr community. But i hesitate putting up full res photos. copywrite and all that.
Prints I dont care about, but the book option would be cool at somepoint.
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Owen - good point about the bandwidth stuff. I was seeing that as gravy, but it could be a huge deal for a lot of folks. Just upload your high res images, and it takes care of resizing to various sizes, and even generates the HTML required to embed any image into a web page (or blog post) while pulling the image file from their server farm. Very handy.
I haven’t found any limitations with the Pro account - but perhaps I’m not pushing it as hard as Owen. I love the unlimited photo storage, and unlimited sets. That’s really all I care about from the Pro account, and that’s been working great!
I do leave most of my photos in iPhoto, though, and load selected ones to Flickr. The images for my blog’s theme are hosted on my own server, and about half of the “content” images are hosted on Flickr, half on my own.
Now, if only Flickr would accept video and audio files…
Teddy - I’m using FAlbum with WordPress 1.5.2, and it’s been working great. There is a WP 1.6, but I haven’t played with it yet.
As for copyright - if you don’t want people copying the image, the only way to keep it safe is to keep it offline. I pretty much assume that anything I put online (images, audio, video and text) is fair game, no matter what creative commons license I’ve attached to it. Licenses are for the honest people…
do you need the falbum plugin to make flickr work with a wordpress install?
I think Im getting closer to trying again. Freakin PS webgallery just doesn’t cut it, methinks.
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FAlbum provides photo album integration - all of your Flickr sets/albums will be displayed on your own blog. WP 1.6 has Flickr integration on a per-photo basis. The two types of integration are complementary, but you don’t need either.
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This is really neat. Will I need some special plug in for this ? I want this on my blog right away.
I haven’t tried it, but there’s a plugin that looks like it will do it - WordPress has apparently dropped the integrated Flickr support.
I have tried WordPress Media Flickr, which adds a “Flickr” media button above the editor.