exclude_taxonomy and exclude_term shortcode attributes allows you to exclude images from being displayed in the gallery.displays a gallery of the latest images uploaded.Continue reading for how to integrate your Flickr photos into your current theme.This plugin adds a shortcode, that can be used within Pages and Posts, to display a gallery of the latest images that have been uploading to your Media Library. The main thing to keep in mind is that the theme has to be able to display photos with a width of 500 pixels or your photos will be cropped. You don’t need a special photo theme for a photoblog and almost any theme will be fine but the main div has to be wide enough. I also considered these regular WordPress themes: The theme looks clean and is getting good reviews so it is worth checking out.Īny minimalistic theme with a previous and next post link on the main page would work really well for a photoblog. It especially suitable for pictures that are 640 x 480 (landscape standard) wide. Performancing released a Photoblog Theme for WordPress that looks very promising. This probably has more to do with the way Flickr parses the pictures to your blog than with the photothemes themselves. I actually liked the basis of all the photothemes I downloaded and with some CSS adjustments you can really make these theme fit your photoblog except for the archives issue. I actually made some adjustments to the stylesheet because I really liked this theme but I ran into the same issues as with the previous theme (the themes are made by the same maker) Comments are in a popup (fix level: moderate).No previous/next buttons on front page, only on individual pages (fix level: easy).The archive files don’t work when you use Flickr’s Blog This function (fix level: difficult/impossible (?)).Ī very straightforward and elegant theme but there were a few reasons I didn’t stick to it:.This would mean debugging the stylesheet (fix level: moderate). There’s a 10 pixel wide white gap beneath every photo. This would mean rewriting the stylesheet (fix level: easy). It is written for photos with a 720 pixel width and the standard Flickr photo width is 500 pixels.This is a very nice clean and minimalistic looking theme but there were a few reasons I didn’t stick to it: I download a few WordPress themes that have been written to turn your blog into a photoblog and tested them. I created a subdomain at, created a new MySQL database and installed another copy of WordPress on the subdomain so that I could safely experiment with themes, plugins and stylesheets. Only time can tell… Have you had the same “problem”? How did you solve it?īefore you get started to integrate Flickr into your blog I would strongly recommend creating a safe environment to experiment. I am still in doubt though because at times it seems better to have a coherent blog about one topic but at the same time this is “my” blog and I am research + photography. I am planning on making two RSS feeds, one for photography and one for everything else. Initially I wanted to make a distinction between the “professional” (academic research) and “personal” (photography) me, but then I figured the two belong together. I thought about buying another domain name or to use a subdomain to make a distinction. I have been thinking about whether I should separate my photography from the rest of my blog content or not.
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