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Photgraphy Page

I have finally managed to find/integrate/implement a photography section for this site - ironically one of the first i came across but dismissed.

FAlbum is a concise little plugin for Wordpress, which connects to your Flickr account and displays all of your photos, comments, and data in sets and by tag. I originally shied away from FAlbum because the user support and documentation are very very sketchy, and it looked a little ott for what i wanted. However, my play with Flogr was fraught with difficulty - and in the end, downloading the largest image on flickr to make it half the size seemed like a waste of bandwith and time.

So i just checked out FAlbum quickly, and without much styling, it worked first time. Its as easy as inserting one line in a blank template file and creating a page from it. Easy! It didn’t look too bad at all, and with about 30 minutes playing with the css, i’ve managed to intergrate it into my site perfectly. In fact - wordpress in conjunction with FAlbum seems almost the perfect backend for a blog with photography. Let flickr do all the hard work, and you only have one gallery to maintain!

The beauty of FAlbum is the organisation of my photographs - set, images etc including comments from flickr and a link to the flickr page of each photo.

The only thing i don’t like is the inability to link to the tag cloud seperately, as its a really useful way of browsing photographs by keyword. Although there is probably a workaround for that, like setting up a page and making it link to the tag cloud page.

I will be putting up the style and integration instructions soon, because as i said before, the documention wiki is full of empty space and tumbleweeds!

Filed by Kieran at September 19th, 2007 under Blog, Code, Photography, Wordpress