WordPress and photos 6: Posting Flickr photos in your blog

There are two ways to display your Flickr photos on your blog:

  • All photos in an album
    by using one of the Flickr album plugins as described in part five: Flickr photo album plugins.
  • Individual photos in a blog post
    by using the Blog This button in Flickr or the integrated function in the Flickr Photo Album for WordPress plugin

I have previously described how to make a Flickr album on your blog. This post will focus on posting individual pictures in a blog post by using the Blog This function in Flickr to automatically create a blog post with your picture.

  1. Go to your Flickr photos and select a picture.
  2. Select the Blog this buttonblog this flickr 01

  3. Select the blog you want to post your picture to (as previously configured in step 3)blog this flickr 02

  4. Enter your WordPress passwordblog this flickr

  5. Enter the title and the text for your post. These are the same fields as in the WordPress interface for your title and text body.blog this flickr

  6. You are done!blog this flickr

  7. View the resultsblog this flickr

    View the blog post with the Flickr photo on my blog
  8. There is one important thing to note here: You cannot put the photo in a category or add tags when posting from Flickr. After blogging the photo you will have to edit the post, tick the relevant categories and add relevant tags.

It doesn’t get any easier unless you don’t like the display of the picture which you have configured in step 3. To change the layout of the post template go to: You > Your Account > Extending Flickr > Your Blogs > Edit > Layout (options). Play around with the CSS until you have customized the template to your needs.

You can also manually insert a Flickr photo to your blog post:

  1. Go to your Flickr photos and select a picture.
  2. Select the All Sizes button
  3. Choose Medium (500 x 333)
  4. Copy and the HTML of option 1 supplied by Flickr under the picture.
  5. Paste the HTML in code mode

9 thoughts on “WordPress and photos 6: Posting Flickr photos in your blog

  1. Unfortunately:

    #4 Copy and the HTML of option 1 supplied by Flickr under the picture.

    Doesn’t happen for most ofthe photo’s I want – there is no html code :(

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