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Adding images to your blog posts captures your readers attention and adds visual interest. However, finding appropriate images has a been a bit of a chore until now.
The Photo Dropper plugin for WordPress finds blog images for you on Flickr and then inserts them into your post with appropriate attribution.
The installation instructions are standard for most WordPress plugins. If you get confused, the details are listed on the site. I did have some initial problems with the plugin returning the images, but the issue resolved itself after I logged out of WordPress and logged back in.
Before I installed Photo Dropper, I was manually searching Flickr for blog images. I would download them to my desktop then upload them to my site via FTP. Photo Dropper does all this work for you and saves a ton of time. The site does recommend you verify the license:
You should always check the specific CC license on the source page before posting since you’re ultimately responsible for adhering to the license.
Other than that, using this plugin is a snap.
I highly recommend this plugin if you use blog images in WordPress. You’ll save time and grab your readers attention to boot.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Bob // Jan 31, 2009 at 2:42 am
This is not much of a review. You don’t explain whether the images get resized., you don’t show screenshots
2 Bruce // Jan 31, 2009 at 9:50 am
In hindsight, I could have gone into more depth. This is more of a quick “thumbs up”.
To answer your first question, Photo Dropper does not resize the images. The plugin allows you to select either small, medium, or large images (assuming the size is available).
Thanks for the feedback.
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