Simon Blackbourn

<p><a href="http://blipfoto.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Blipfoto</a> is an online daily photo journal. Each day you can upload one photo and add some words. It is also a very friendly community where people comment on and rate each other’s photos, choose favourite ‘blips’ (the informal name given to journal entries), follow journals, join groups and take part in discussions.</p>
<p>BlipPress lets you easily integrate your Blipfoto journal into your WordPress website. You can display single or multiple entries from your or other people’s journals in your posts and pages or in a widget, as well as posting to your journal directly from within WordPress.</p>
<p>You can see BlipPress in action, with various examples and detailed instructions at <a href="http://blippress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">blippress.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Displaying Blipfoto journal entries</h4>
<p>There are a number of shortcodes you can use. Just type these into any post or page.</p>
<pre><code>[bliplatest] displays the most recent blip from your journal. You can also specify the user: `[bliplatest user=lumpysimon]`

[blips] displays a gallery of your recent blips. By default it uses the settings for the number of blips (default 16) and size (default large). You can override these, and also the user: `[blips num=5 size=small user=lumpysimon]`

[blip] displays a single blip by entry ID. For example: `[blip id=3317861]`

[blipdate] displays a single blip from your journal for a particular date. The date should be in the format dd-mm-yyyy. For example: `[blipdate date=22-09-2013]`. You can also specify the user: `[blipdate date=03-08-2013 user=lumpysimon]`

[blippostdate] displays a single blip from your journal corresponding to the date of the current post.
</code></pre>
<h4>Posting to Blipfoto from WordPress</h4>
<p>Add a new post, enter the title and content, then save a draft of the post. Now click “Choose an image” in the BlipPress box to select an existing image from your media library or to upload a new one. When you click “Blip it!”, an entry will be created in your Blipfoto journal, using the image, title and content from your post.</p>
<p>Please note that the journal entry date will be based on the date your photo was taken, not on the publication date of your post.</p>
<p>When you publish your post, the journal entry will automatically be displayed at the top of your post.</p>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<p>There are three BlipPress widgets:</p>
<ul>
<li>‘Latest’ displays the latest entry from your or another user’s journal.</li>
<li>‘Multi’ displays thumbnails of your or another user’s latest journal entries. You can specify how many to display.</li>
<li>‘Single’ displays an blip by ID number.</li>
</ul>
<h4>This is a beta plugin!</h4>
<p>This is a new plugin, so it is still under continuous development. I recommend that you always check your journal entry after posting from your WordPress website (a link to the entry is shown after you create it). Please report any problems via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blippress" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.</p>


BlipPress

Display entries from your Blipfoto photography journal and post your photos to Blipfoto from your WordPress website.

<p><a href="https://www.blipfoto.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Blipfoto</a> is an online daily photo journal. Each day you can upload one photo and add some words. It is also an extremely friendly community where people comment on and rate each other’s photos, choose favourite ‘blips’ (the informal name given to journal entries), follow journals, join groups and take part in discussions.</p>
<p>Blipfoto Importer lets you easily import all your photos and journal entries from Blipfoto into your WordPress website. Each imported entry will create a post on your website, with the image set to be the ‘featured image’. You can choose the post status (published, draft, private, or pending review) and if you wish automatically insert the image into the post content.</p>
<h4>Instructions</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to the ‘Blipfoto Importer’ settings page (under the Settings menu).</li>
<li>In a new tab or window, go to the <a href="https://www.blipfoto.com/developer/apps" rel="nofollow ugc">Blipfoto apps page</a></li>
<li>Click the ‘Create a new app’ button.</li>
<li>Enter your name.</li>
<li>Choose ‘web application’.</li>
<li>Type anything in the description field.</li>
<li>Enter the address of your website in the ‘Website’ field.</li>
<li>Leave the ‘Redirect URI’ field blank.</li>
<li>Click the ‘I agree’ checkbox.</li>
<li>Copy the ‘Client ID’, ‘Client secret’ and ‘Access token’ into the relevant fields on the settings page on your WordPress website.</li>
<li>Set the other options as required.</li>
<li>To run the import, go to the ‘Blipfoto Importer’ page in the ‘Tools’ menu. The import is run in batches to prevent timeouts or exceeding the Blipfoto API rate limit. Just keep hitting the ‘Go!’ button until all your entries have been imported.</li>
<li>If you hit the Blipfoto API rate limit (about 500 entries), put your feet up with a nice cup of tea and try again in about 15 minutes.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Important notes</h4>
<p>This is not an official Blipfoto plugin, it is developed and maintained by me in my spare time. I initially wrote it extremely quickly in response to uncertainty over the future of the Blipfoto website. Please treat it as very much a ‘beta’ product.</p>
<p>Feedback, feature requests and bug reports are all very welcome (please use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blipfoto-importer" rel="ugc">support forum</a> or the <a href="https://github.com/lumpysimon/blipfoto-wordpress-importer/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub issues page</a>.</p>
<p>I would strongly advise that you make a back up of your database before using this plugin.</p>
<p>There appears to be no way to retrieve original high resolution images from Blipfoto, so this plugin retrieves the ‘standard’ size image instead. This is still good enough for display on most websites, but it is not your original full size image that you uploaded to Blipfoto.</p>
<h4>Known bugs and future plans</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://github.com/lumpysimon/blipfoto-wordpress-importer/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub issues</a>.</p>


Blipfoto importer

Import journal entries and photos from a Blipfoto daily photo journal into your WordPress website.

BlipPress vs Blipfoto importer