Flickr Wordpress Plugin Release
3 years, 3 months ago This is currently a Beta, and is under development. However, I’ve decided to release it now (as further development could take a couple of weeks). These are the functions of the plugin:
- Integrates with Technorati Tags Plugin for WordPress
- Takes the first Technorati tag, and uses it to look for related images on Flickr
- Displays the three most recent related images on your WordPress blog post
- Updates images automatically
The plugin is easy to install, but it requires the Technorati Tags Plugin to work. I strongly suggest you install this, and get it working correctly before you attempt to install the Flickr Related Images plugin.
These are some simple installation instructions for the plugin:
- Download and install Technorati Tags Plugin
- Download the plugin file, either as a .zip package or a .txt file. Place it in your plugins directory, and activate it.
- Insert the following code into wp-comments.php, where you want the Flickr images to appear (generally just below the line containing “You can start editing here”:
flickrrelated($id);
- Begin adding Technorati tags to your posts, and watch the related images appear
This plugin will be updated rapidly over the next couple of days. Keep checking back for changes. If there are any feature requests or comments, please feel free to comment this post.
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February 23rd, 2005 at 7:55 am
The plugin is useful! thanks.
February 26th, 2005 at 10:06 am
such a great plugin! thank you!
March 29th, 2005 at 2:27 am
Hi, i tried ur plugin and works well if i’m using Mozilla Firefox. But the image doesn’t shows up when im viewing the site using IE. It just 3 tiny boxes with white border around them. ???
March 29th, 2005 at 7:07 am
Hmm - Is that just IE on Windows, or on a Mac? - It should work fine in the Windows version. I haven’t tested it in IE for OSX.
March 29th, 2005 at 11:00 am
I’m using IE6 for Windows. I try to open ur site and one other site using the plugin and the result are all the same, just 3 tiny boxes altough each box has a valid flickr link on it. These problem never occured when i’m viewing the sites using Firefox (i don’t know about netscape or IE shell browsers such as Maxthon).
March 29th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
Just ask my friend to view sites using the plugin from her office (using Maxthon), and the result is the same. 3 tiny boxes.
Btw, is there a way to specify the width of all three thumbnails at certain pixels so it doesn’t exceed current layout/theme.
March 29th, 2005 at 2:05 pm
You can set a specific width - It should be commented at some point in the source code.
I’m afraid I can’t help you with the images not displaying. I’m not sure what the problem is that you are having. Unfortunately, I’m really busy at the moment and can’t look into it further. Sorry!
April 15th, 2005 at 4:29 am
i was just looking through the idea forums and found a post where collin grady mentioned word press. i googled “wordpress” and came up with a list of sites. went to the first, nothing special. went to the second and found my latest flickr phot being displayed. very odd.
why is it here? chance?
anyway, thats all i wanted to say
the-O-ster
April 25th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
The link to the Technocrati Plugin is down for some reason. Do you know if this plugin will work with any of the other technocrati plugins available? I have TechnoTag installed. Thanks for the help.
~Mitch
April 26th, 2005 at 7:39 am
I’m pretty sure it won’t I’m afraid. Give it a couple of days, and If the guy’s site isn’t back up I’ll try to post a mirror of the file.
April 27th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
I was able to get onto the Technorati Tags plugin site just long enough to download and install the plugin. Step one covered. I then installed your flicker plugin an received the following error message:
Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/.ogies/mmcalister/notesunderground.com/wp-content/plugins/flickrrelated_1_1.php on line 162
Warning: fopen(http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=Andrew_Bird&format=rss_200): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/.ogies/mmcalister/notesunderground.com/wp-content/plugins/flickrrelated_1_1.php on line 162
Cannot read RSS data file.
the code seems to be pulling the tags properly, but for some reason, it’s not pulling the Flickr feed correctly. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
~Mitch
April 27th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
I think this line tells you all you need to know:
Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
It’s a server setting which is preventing the script opening/reading a file
April 28th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
This looks like an excellent plugin and I’m eager to try it.
However, it looks like that ‘Technorati Tags Plugin’ link is indeed dead. Any other way to get it?
April 28th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
This looks like an excellent plugin and I’m eager to try it.
However, it looks like that ‘Technorati Tags Plugin’ link is indeed dead. Any other way to get it?
April 28th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
Dangit. Sorry about that duplicate post, it’s the second time I’ve done it tonight. Browser’s on the fritz. I guess consider this plugin.
May 25th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
looks like ‘Technorati Tags Plugin’ link is still dead anyone know another place to get it?
July 14th, 2005 at 6:54 pm
Hi, David. I got your plugin to work with the Improved Cat2Tag plugin and CaTT. In the postmeta table, I found the label that is generated for my tags, namely “tags,” and changed removed technorati_ from your script. Works like a charm. I suppose you could do this with any of the TT plugs. Now, I just have to move my tags around so that the first one is the most descriptive and gives better pictures.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:05 pm
Is there any way to display the images without a table? Perhaps an unordered list so that we could put them inline or listed as we choose? The current layout isn’t conducive to my design desires, and I’m not familiar with the xml_parser function to decide what alterations need to be made. Also, is there any way to change the number of images to be displayed? I saw a site not too long ago where someone had a single related image next to each post which I thought was way cool!
Thanks for the plugin. It’s very nice.
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July 22nd, 2005 at 9:35 pm
Hello,
I am getting the error ‘Cannot read RSS data file’ instead of Flickr images.
Any idea what that’s all about?
Thanks!
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:38 pm
I should have said that manually putting the http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=dog&format=rss_200 line (I replaced the Globals array with ‘dig’) into my browser pulls up the RSS feed.
July 25th, 2005 at 3:10 am
a little help…?
July 25th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
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March 4th, 2006 at 1:23 am
I couldn’t find the technorati tags plugin, so I looked at the code and made it compatible with another plugin called Jerome’s Keywords. I changed meta_key value to keywords which is what Jerome’s names the meta_key.
My images are showing up as 1 x 1 thumbnails, you can click them and go to the correct image in flickr. Has anyone else had this problem?
March 25th, 2006 at 8:49 am
I managed to fix the 1×1 pixel issue inside Internet Explorer by removing the code under width and height and hardcoding 130 in the width.
Find the line:
$fixed = preg_replace(”/height=”.*”/Ui”, ‘height=”‘.$GLOBALS[’desiredheight’].’”‘, $matches[0]);
and change to:
$fixed = preg_replace(”/height=”.*”/Ui”, ‘height=130′, $matches[0]);
BUT! Another issue I am having is this:
When there is 4 or less tags, the images appear as they should. If there is more than 4 tags.. ie… 8-10 tags, then no images appear. I can remove the end tags to bring it back down to 3 and then BAM the photos are there.
Any ideas? Is it checking for ANY of the tags on flickr… or ALL of the tags?
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June 3rd, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Anybody have a try out that if it works with wordpress 2.0.3 ? And thanks david.
June 5th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Hi David
I’d love to use your plugin but unfortunately it seems as though one of my ninja brothers has removed the Technorati Plugin website …
Is there any way you can make it available via your website?
Many thanks
NN
September 8th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
in my case, there are some times that de plugin rules very well, but sometimes it doesn’t work anymore… :S
i have the jerome’s keywords (tiem ago) and i have make the same change as Marion Hall so sometimes it gets the tags and show the images but another times in others post there isn`t any image… i don’t know why
could anyone help me?
PS: in IE the plugin in my blog doesn’t work like some people
September 8th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
i have tried to solve my problem and i will show what i have made:
where appears
$tags = explode(’ ‘, $row->meta_value);
you have to cahnge by:
$tags = explode(’,', $row->meta_value);
$tags = explode(‘,’, $row->meta_value);
if you use the jerome’s keywords, because de tags are separated by a “coma” but if the first tag is a tag made of more words it doesn’ show any photo
do ypou understand? i’m spanish and i’m sorry if you dont understand… but by now i have solve a little of my problem and i thik someone could help
September 9th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Hey Great Plugin mate
I will post them here to help others.
Made a few changes
First i used the Jerome’s Keywords pluggin, Much better for tagging than simpletags.
To tag i use keywords seperated by spaces.
For this plugin change the sql on line 129 to
$q = “SELECT meta_value FROM $tablepostmeta WHERE post_id=”.$thepostid.” AND meta_key=’Keywords’”;
Thats that!
Also i wanted more dynamic results (random related images you could say) Stop it looking so static.
So i added the following code to the feed to select a random value from the tags array.
$tags[array_rand($tags)]
See Line 161
$feed=”http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=”.$GLOBALS[’out’].”&format=rss_200″;
change to:
$feed=”http://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=”.$tags[array_rand($tags)].”&format=rss_200″;
Hope this helps some people
Enjoy
September 12th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
nice change I like! thanks vince lowe, but i say that in jerome’s keywords if you separate tags by spaces the plugin gets as an only tag at least in my blog :s
September 13th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
as a test temp add print $tags[array_rand($tags)]; somewhere you will see it and refresh the page a few times
with a low number of tags you may find the same one is selected over and over by chance.
go nuts add loads!
September 18th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
FYI
I put together an update to jeromes keywords and random tags as shown in my above post as a download for my friend.
So i thorght i might as well make it available as an updated plugin as it looks like development has stopped on this and the Technorati Tags Plugin is dead and unavailable.
David has been credited!!
Download the update here.
http://pirrana.co.uk/blog/index.php/code/flickrelated/
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December 28th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
After making all the changes that Vince mentions, I still can’t get this plugin to work. Jerome’s works just fine, but I can’t get any pics to show up. I inserted flickrrelated($id); right below the line that says “You can start editing here”: and nothing happens unless I start a comment. Then the actual text flickrrelated($id); appears. Help?
December 29th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Update:
I put flickerrelated($id) in its own php tags and now it works. I then had the same problem that Shoestring had with the 1×1 pixels. Shoestring’s solution worked, but I got some syntax errors that I needed to fix. I then got Shoestring’s keyword problem with the number of tags affecting the plugin. Thank you to Erhaby for the solution to that problem. This plugin now works with Jerome’s Keywords! I’ll place a link to my updated files as soon as my site comes back up
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February 21st, 2007 at 2:46 am
I can’t find the Technorati Tags Plugin for WordPress required for this to work
March 8th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Checked through several flickr plugins but this is my choise.
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