You can now use Flickr – and its group album feature – to have your members share photos of their adventures on your snowmobile club trails!

Flickr Gallery Plugin allows you to display anything with a few uses of shortcodes. You do have to setup a Flickr API to access your account. I suggest creating a shared group, open to the public (read more on how to do that on Flickr’s site). Tell your members to post pics to that, and use this plugin to display them on the wbepage.

Using just a simple piece of shortcode, you can link directly to your entire gallery:

Screenshot of Gallery

Or you can pull a single image from Flickr simply by referring to its unique ID:

Just a single photo using the photos unique id

Or only display things with a specific tag, or tags.

displaying based on tags

There are a few other settings and features, which may be useful. Here are all the short codes!

Usage

• [flickr-gallery] – Creates a generic gallery for the user you specified in your settings page.
• [flickr]http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancoulter/2619594365/[/flickr]– Inserts the given image. You can also just put the photo ID in there (the numeric string at the end of the link).

Other options:

• [flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157605870230826"] – Displays all of the photos from the given Flickr photoset.
• [flickr-gallery mode="tag" tags="foo" tag_mode="all"] – Shows photos from your photostream with the specified tags (comma separated). If you leave off the tag_mode option, it defaults to “any”.
• [flickr-gallery mode="recent"] – Shows recent photos from your photostream
• [flickr-gallery mode="interesting"] – Shows interesting photos from your photostream
• [flickr-gallery mode="search" tags="foo" group_id="46862018@N00"] – The search mode supports any arbitrary sort using the options listed here:http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html
• [flickr size="small" float="left"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancoulter/2619594365/[/flickr]– Sets the size of the inserted image to “small” (defaults to “medium”) and makes the next paragraph of text wrap around to the right of the image (you can specify “right” for the float parameter as well, which defaults to “none”)
• [flickr height="300" width="400"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancoulter/2422361554/[/flickr]– This one is a video. It’ll automatically embed the flash movie for you. If you want to change its size, you can use the width and height options.

Advanced options:

• If you want to disable pagination, just include pagination=0 in your shortcode.

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