Picturegrid Wordpress Plugin
The selection of photos on my Photography page have been embedded using the Picturegrid Wordpress Plugin. Lightbox is turned off, so each image links to the appropriate page, and image borders and image margins are set to zero. These photos are all from my set “Favourites”
The Picturegrid wordpress plugin allows you to import your Flickr images into your sidebar, or onto any page. In fact you only need to call the function picturegrid(); inside any php to show the grid using the settings set on the options page inside the wordpress dashboard.
Picturegrid is also widget ready! If your theme supports widgets, just go to the widget admin panel and drag the picturgrid widget where you want it. Note! Picturegrid widget makes use of the default options!
To Do
- Currently limited to 500 photos. I will implement a page system, so you can choose how many photos per page (up to 500) and how many pages. This is lowest priority - picturegrid was supposed to be simple!
- Allow users to overide defaults. For example, you could force picturegrid to show 3 images in your sidebar but 500 in your gallery page.
- Allow random photos why stick to recent? Random would be more fun especially for sidebars.
- Fix annoying CSS bug in wordpress which creates a gap beween rows of photos. Grrr.
- Give widget its own set and photo limit options.
- Thumbnail sizes for images.
Download
Old Version 0.9
Picturegrid Wordpress Plugin 1.0
Installation
- Upload - Upload picturegrid directory to plugins folder. This should contain the phpflickr folder and the picturegrid.php file.
- Activate Plugin
- Get and install lightbox plugin if required.
- Options-> Picturegrid - You’ll need to flll these out or they may be trouble!
- Use Widget - Drag the widget where you want it if your theme supports widgets (still uses default options).
- Use PHP function picturegrid(); - anywhere you’d like to insert a picturegrid. I have provided a sample template for you to upload to your theme directory. Write a new page and choose Picturegrid as your template to see it in action.
- Look good.
Notes
You absolutely must have a flickr API key. They are free, easy to get and lovely and reusable. Options page contains a link to the sign up page if you don’t already have one.
Updates
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Filed by Kieran at December 13th, 2007 under Uncategorized
1. At 8:58 pm on December 14, 2007, Mike Hedge wrote:
ok….. so I installed it… entered my ID do I need to get a Flickr API key?