This WordPress Flickr Post Bar plugin simply allows you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts. Once installed, it will display your most recent Flickr photos as thumbnails in a bar across the bottom of your WordPress post form. Clicking on a thumbnail will automatically insert the proper HTML snippet into your blog post.

This plugin was inspired by Flock’s TopBar, but takes it a little further by allowing you to search photos not only by username, but also by tags or a combination of both username and tags.

If you find this plugin useful, I would appreciate it if you left a note in the comments along with a link to your site.

Author: Joe Tan ([email protected])
License: GPL

Features:

• Search for photos based on Flickr username and/or tags without leaving the edit screen
• Photos are loaded in the background via iframe
• Click on a thumbnail to automatically insert it into your post
• You can have photos link to FAlbum instead of Flickr, if you have the plugin installed
• Photos are inserted at your cursor’s current position (IE and Firefox only)

Installation:

1. Unpack / unzip the archive
   Note: If you already have a tantan directory from one of my previous plugins, you can safely overwrite existing files. Make sure you back up your existing tantan directory just in case something goes wrong.
2. Enter your Flickr settings and any other settings you want to configure. Save your settings.
3. You’re done! Click on the “Write” tab and you should see your Flickr photos. Click on a photo and an HTML snippet for that photo will appear in the post’s textarea.

Known Issues:

• FAlbum integration only works if “Friendly URLs” are disabled
• If you have a WYSIWYG editor plugin installed, this plugin will probably not work
• If you are getting “SAFE MODE” or “PEAR” errors, open up lib.phpFlickr.php, delete line 39, and remove the // from line 42 so it reads:
  ini_set("include_path", substr(__FILE__, 0, strrpos(__FILE__, "/")) . "/PEAR" . $path_delimiter . ini_get("include_path"));

Modification History:

• See the Flickr Photo Album plugin for updates — this plugin will no longer be actively worked on
• 0.5 — Jan 2, 2006 — added support for WordPress 2.0; added option to not load Flickr photos on every post screen load; Firefox users can drag and drop thumbnails into their posts
• 0.4 — Nov 26, 2005 — added FAlbum integration and general support for other Flickr plugins; photos now also appear on the “Pages” edit screen
• 0.3 — Nov 2, 2005 — bug fixes and small enhancements; added an “upload” button linking to Flickr’s upload screen; photos inserted at cursor position (IE and Firefox only)
• 0.2 — Oct 26, 2005 — photos now load via iframe to improve load times
• 0.1 — Oct 25, 2005 — initial release

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