Robert O'Rourke

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…
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.
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.
<h4>Usage</h4>
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.
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.
<h4>For developers</h4>
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.
<pre><code><?php
$response = json_decode( flickr_api( $method, $params, $cache ) );
?>
</code></pre>
All responses are in JSON format so you will need to use <code>json_decode()</code> to use the response in PHP.
<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>
You can use the API via javascript as well:
<pre><code><script>
var photos = flickr_api( method, params, cache );
</script>
</code></pre>
NSID lookup:
<pre><code><?php
$nsid = flickr_get_user_nsid( $username );
?>
</code></pre>
Just pass in the Flickr username of the person to get the NSID for.
<h4>Filters/Hooks</h4>
flickr_galleria_themes
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.
<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.

Aesqe

“File Gallery” extends WordPress’ media (attachments) capabilities 
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support, 
a new interface for attachment handling when editing posts, and much 
more… Here’s the full list of features:
Features:
<ol>
<li>multiple galleries per post with custom attachment order</li>
<li>a flexible templating system (PHP, CSS, JS) – choose a different 
template for each gallery, even within the same post (4 templates 
included with plugin)</li>
<li>simple, easy to use UI with drag and drop sorting shows attachment 
thumbnails beneath text editor: everything attachments-related is on 
the same screen you’re editing your post on</li>
<li>fully integrated with the visual editor (tinyMCE) – click on the 
[gallery] placeholder image and change any option in the File 
Gallery metabox – changes will be applied instantly</li>
<li>settings page extends the default media settings page</li>
<li>attach copies of items from media library to current post (copies 
data only, not the file)</li>
<li>copy all attachments from another post</li>
<li>unattach (detach) items from current post</li>
<li>media tags = tag your attachments and then use those tags to choose 
which attachments you want to display in your gallery or to filter 
your media library items.</li>
<li>custom fields for attachments</li>
<li>gallery pagination</li>
<li>different background colors for items in media library depending 
on their status = completely unattached (white), attached to other 
posts (red), or attached to current post (yellow)</li>
<li>compatible with “WordPress Mobile Edition”, “Media Tags” and 
“WPML Multilingual CMS” plugins </li>
<li>basic caching of gallery output and frequent queries (transients)</li>
<li>please see the help file for complete list of features</li>
</ol>
<h3>More info</h3>
This plugin uses icons from the awesome famfamfam Silk icon set by 
Mark James. 
“Silk” can be found at: http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
Plugin settings are integrated into media settings page.
Help file is included, you’ll find it in the “help” subfolder.
<h3>Translation Credits</h3>
Hebrew: 
* Maor Barazany – http://www.maorb.info/
French: 
* Jean-Michel Meyer – http://www.li-an.fr/wpplugins/
Italian: 
* Pietro Palli – http://ppal.li/ 
* Francesco Canovi – http://www.blackstudio.it/
Arabic: 
* Wassem Mansour – http://www.sanapix.com
Lithuanian: 
* Vincent G – http://www.Host1Free.com
Polish: 
* Michał Budzik – http://www.mindborn.pl/en/
<h3>Contributors</h3>
Greg Haddow (https://github.com/shaddowgh/) 
Josh Eaton (https://github.com/jjeaton/) 
Andrea Baccega (https://github.com/vekexasia)
<h3>Thanks goes out to…</h3>
<ul>
<li>All the contributors, translators, and people leaving comments, 
bug reports and suggestions on the official page and in the 
WordPress.org forums</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plans for the next versions</h3>
sooner:
<ul>
<li>manage media tags for all selected attachments</li>
<li>audio and video preview on editing screens</li>
</ul>
later:
<ul>
<li>phpdoc all the functions</li>
<li>more detailed description for file_gallery_shortcode function 
(what can be used in ‘orderby’, what do ‘columns’ mean) for beginner programmers</li>
<li>yoxview lightbox http://www.yellow-llama.com/yoxview-gallery-wordpress-plugin/</li>
</ul>
maybe:
<ul>
<li>show attachments’ Custom Fields in the main page of Media Library (custom column)</li>
<li>media library sort by file size or picture dimensions</li>
</ul>
probably not, but who knows:
<ul>
<li>watermarking – probably in another plugin…</li>
<li>when detaching / deleting attachments, just remove them from DOM 
without refreshing the entire file gallery box, but take care of 
originals and copies</li>
</ul>
And thank you for reading this 🙂
aesqe

File Gallery

File Gallery extends WordPress media (attachments) capabilities 
by adding a new gallery shortcode handler with templating support 
(and much more).

Flickr API vs File Gallery