The Flickr Slideshow plugin lets you easily embed a slideshow of a Flickr photo set into your wordpress blog.
Easily embed a slideshow of a Flickr photo set into your wordpress blog.
Summary
The Flickr Slideshow plugin allows Wordpress blog operators to easily embed slideshows of their Flickr photo sets  in to posts and pages.
Slideshows are displayed using Flickr’s flash slideshow application as seen when you choose to view a slideshow of any set of Flickr photos.
- Download Flickr Slideshow v0.2 [.zip 68kB] released 20 July 2009.
Features
- Use your photos which are already organised in to sets on Flickr.
No need to re-upload or mess around to get your slideshow up and running. - Dead simple to use.
All you need is the ID of the photo set you want to show and you are a few clicks away from showing off your photos to your readers. - Integrated in to WYSIWYG editor.
The plugin adds a button to WP’s WYSIWYG editor so you don’t have to remember any complicated commands. Everything is crystal clear. - 100% standards-compliant code.
Flickr Slideshow’s <object> tag  implementation means that your blog still validates according to W3C standards.
Installation
- Unzip and extract the Flickr Slideshow archive to your computer
- FTP the flickrSlideshow folder to your Wordpress blog’s plugins folder
- Activate the Flickr Slideshow plugin on your blog’s plugins admin screen
Usage
Inserting a slideshow is extremely easy. After the plugin is installed and activated the whole process is just 3 steps long!
- Click the Flickr Slideshow button which has been added to your WYSIWYG editor.
- Follow the prompts to copy-and-paste the ID of your Flickr photo set into the text field.
- Click the “Add slideshow” button.
There are also additional options for changing the dimensions of the slideshow, border attributes and properties of the containing DIV included in the editing pop-up.
All options are optional so if you leave any of the fields blank they will be automatically substituted with the plugin’s default settings when you publish your post.
Upcoming features
- Customise the default settings of a slideshow so you don’t have to type them in to the editor every time.
