isaacwedin

<p>flickpress adds a button to the post editor to find and insert Flickr photos into WordPress posts. Add Flickr users by entering their usernames or email addresses. Previously-entered Flickr users are stored in a database table that can be managed at Tools:flickpress. Search for users’ photos by keyword or browse tags, photosets, favorites, or recent photos. You can also search for Creative Commons, Flickr Commons, and government photos. Click through to a photo to insert a variety of sizes, adding a variety of caption information if desired.</p>
<h3>Widget</h3>
<p>The widget just packages the template function in convenient widget form. To use it, activate it through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress and add it to your sidebar through the ‘Widgets’ menu. It requires some things in the main plugin, so you’ll need to have both activated.</p>
<p>Just like with the template function, you may specify a class for the images, and text (such as HTML tags) to display before and after each image. Some tips:</p>
<ul>
<li>For a horizontal display, put nothing or just spaces before and after.</li>
<li>For a vertical display, either use <code><p></code> before and <code></p></code> after or just a <code><br /></code> after.</li>
<li>Many themes include a class called “aligncenter” that should center your images in the sidebar.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Lightbox Support</h3>
<p>There are a couple of different ways to enable lightbox support for images inserted with flickpress.</p>
<p>The easiest way is to just turn on ThickBox in the settings. This will add the necessary bits to your inserted images and add the necessary JavaScript to your theme for a simple lightbox.</p>
<p>Another fairly easy method is to turn on the Custom lightbox option in the settings and install a lightbox plugin that automatically recognizes lightboxable image links. The Lightbox Plus plugin has worked for me with this method, and has lots of customization options.</p>
<p>Finally, you could set it up completely manually: turn on the Custom lightbox option in the settings, enter a class or rel, then add your own lightbox JavaScript to your theme.</p>
<h3>Template Function</h3>
<p>There is a simple template function available for use in your sidebar or other spots you’d like to include a few recent flickr photos. The function, its options, and the defaults are:</p>
<pre><code>if (function_exists('flickpress_photos')) flickpress_photos($email,$numphotos=3,$before='',$after='<br />',$fpclass='centered');<h3>Notes</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>This plugin is really just a wrapper for Dan Coulter’s excellent phpFlickr library ( <a href="http://phpflickr.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://phpflickr.com/</a> ). Using more than one plugin based on the library can cause conflicts, so I renamed the class in the library included with flickpress. I also edited (maybe broke!) the database cache code, so if you’re considering creating a plugin based on flickpress I highly recommend getting the latest official version of phpFlickr instead of using this modified version.</p>


flickpress

flickpress is a tool to find Flickr photos and insert them into your posts, plus a widget to display recent Flickr photos.

Robert O'Rourke

<p>The Flickr API plugin provides tools for displaying your flickr galleries, sets, photostream or favourites and more using a shortcode in posts and pages or as a widget. You can choose the size of image you want, whether it should be linked to another image size or back to flickr or not linked at all, how many images to show and more…</p>
<p>There are some built in options for displaying your images as a simple slideshow or using the Galleria jquery plugin. Alternatively you can choose to style the output yourself and use your own javascript.</p>
<p>For developers the plugin also gives you an easy method for calling and caching API responses both in PHP and javascript, and lots of useful tools for working with those responses.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>You will need to get an API key from flickr to use this plugin. Under the ‘You’ menu look for ‘Your Apps’. Click to get a key and then go to the media settings screen to add your API key and user name. The plugin will automatically determine your NSID so you never need to look this up.</p>
<p>To use the plugin either generate a shortcode using the media upload/insert button and selecting what you want to get or use the Flickr widget provided.</p>
<h4>For developers</h4>
<p>The plugin exposes its methods for your use in themes as template tags but the main one you may find useful is <code>flickr_api()</code>. This is a general function for calling any API method with the parameters you specify.</p>
<pre><code><?php
$response = json_decode( flickr_api( $method, $params, $cache ) );
?>
</code></pre>
<p>All responses are in JSON format so you will need to use <code>json_decode()</code> to use the response in PHP.</p>
<pre><code>@param $method: (string)    This is the API method to call
@param $params: (array)     Additional arguments to pass into the call such as user_id, photoset_id, gallery_id, text, tags etc...
@param $cache : (bool)      Whether or not to cache the response based on the arguments passed in
</code></pre>
<p>You can use the API via javascript as well:</p>
<pre><code><script>
var photos = flickr_api( method, params, cache );
</script>
</code></pre>
<p><strong>NSID lookup:</strong></p>
<pre><code><?php
$nsid = flickr_get_user_nsid( $username );
?>
</code></pre>
<p>Just pass in the Flickr username of the person to get the NSID for.</p>
<h4>Filters/Hooks</h4>
<p><strong>flickr_galleria_themes</strong></p>
<p>You can enable the choice of custom or purchased galleria themes by extending the themes array. Useful if you want your theme to have a choice of galleria theme beyond the ‘classic’ style.</p>
<pre><code><?php
add_filter( 'flickr_galleria_themes', 'my_galleria_themes' );
function my_galleria_themes( $themes ) {
    $themes[ /* full or relative url to theme js file */ ] = __( 'Theme Name' );
    return $themes;
}
?>
</code></pre>


Flickr API

A comprehensive Flickr plugin that makes it easy to show off your images in style.

flickpress vs Flickr API