Photo Dropper
You may recall that, a few days ago, I had somewhat of an episode with my blog. Although the bulk of my posts have been, alas, lost in the ether, I’m glad to be back online and with a snazzy new theme, to boot.
One additional benefit from this turmoil: one of my favorite bloggers has tipped me off to the existence of Photo Dropper, a nifty little plugin that proclaims it will allow me to include Flickr images in my blog much more easily. I have just installed this plugin, and am about to test it out.
And as you can see by the snazzy image above, it appears to be working, and quite well at that.
One odd quirk that I encountered as a result of blog being hosted by Site Ground; when I tried to usee the web-based FTP agent to upload the zip file and decompress the plugin, WordPress didn’t recognize its existence. I could see my other plugins, but Photo Dropper just wouldn’t show up. Eventually I fired up FileZilla, a great little FTP client I’ve used before, and copied the folder over from my hard drive.
I had to get off the VPN (and out from behind the firewall) to use FileZilla, but once I got it connected everything ran just as smooth as silk.
Aw, shucks. Thanks for the compliment.
And a very nice photo, by the way.
No, thank YOU.
One thing I haven’t figured out – is there a way to get it to automatically include the photographer credit, or link back to the photographer’s page on Flickr? Right now all I can get it to do is link to the actual image, but I can’t find anything that would give credit.