How can you decorate your blog? You can do it in different ways and it mostly depends on your own tastes and choices. But one of the most easiest and interactive ways is to add some good photos. Photos not only makes your blog attractive, but also helps in keeping your visitors glued! So, I love the flickrRSS plugin. FlickrRSS is a plugin for WordPress, that allows you to display beautiful Flickr photos on your blog. I am using it on a different blog and it works fine.

This interesting plugin supports user, public and group photostreams. It’s easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has support for an image cache located on your server. However, there is a limitation in this plugin. FlickrRSS uses RSS feed to display the images and RSS feeds contains the recent photos only. So it can’t show random images from a stream.

 

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How to use flickrRSS plugin?

 

  • Download the flickrRSS 3.2.
  • Unzip and upload the flickrrss.php file to your blog’s “wp-content/plugins” directory.
  • To use the image cache, create a writable directory and specify its location in the options.
  • Activate the plugin from your WordPress Admin section.
  • Configure your settings via the panel in Options
  • Add the following code in your theme template, where in want the photos to appear:

<?php get_flickrRSS(); ?>

The flickrRSS plugin also supports a number of parameters, allowing you to have multiple instances across your site. It means you can customize it as per your requirements. You may use:

 

  • $num_items - how many photos you want to appear
  • $type - specify user, public or group photosream
  • $tags - a comma separated list of tags (with no spaces)
  • $imagesize - square, thumbnail, medium or large
  • $before - html appearing before each photo
  • $after - html appearing after each photo
  • $userid - specify a user id (or group name)

For example:

<?php get_flickrrss(10, “public”, “beach,people”); ?> code in your theme would show the 10 most recent public photos tagged with beach and people.

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