Ever since purchasing my pro flickr account a few weeks ago ($25/yr to hold all the photos you’ve ever taken isn’t bad) I’ve been updating my flickr with really, really old photos. It even goes back as far as 2004. Before Flickr I used to use a free website called pbase but to my surprise, they have actually deleted a lot of my photos from 2002 and 2003. I was unimpressed to say the least and sent quite a few nasty e-mails to the company. Since I wasn’t a paying customer, they couldn’t do anything about it. So, rather than pay after them loosing all my memories from back in the party days, I decided to pay Flickr instead. This is sort of a pointless entry, but I decided to update a few of you on here as some people who read this are my Flickr contacts as well.
I have a question though regarding everyone’s Flickr plugin/widget (what is it?) on websites. Why does my flickr preview photos look so ugly compared to everyone else’s? I mean, the layout of them. All spaced out super weird, no standard thumbnail view. I may remove it all together! How annoying. Why am I computer illiterate?
Most of my photos aren’t viewable to the public, as Flickr actually gets a lot of creepers. But the ones I had on pbase were indeed, public and so once I’ve moved them all over to Flickr, I decided to still keep them public. You can view my flickr page here!
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Well I don’t have one of those little widgets or what not because if you don’t have a lot of photos available to the public they look weird, or in my case because I have none available to the public it goes blank…
But I’m not sure if thats why yours looks like that, everyone elses has their sets, and their picture count on it.. hmm… thats odd.
this is the widget i used to use, and everone uses on their flickr profiles…
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/profile.php
^ Ooh. That one is ugly lol.
http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/flickr-widget-plugin-for-your-wordpress-sidebar/
install it like any other plugin. you can then go into the options in your wordpress and configure the settings/layout. You can set the size and how many show, and if you want particular photos to always show etc. I think I put a style around mine when I used it to get rid of any active link borders.
I always hate it when I’m no help to technical questions, because, as we’ve discussed before, I can barely post and edit entries.
The FlickR pics are super cute. I know I should upgrade to Pro, but…I don’t know, it seems odd to pay for the same thing I can do on facbeook?
I just use the flickr badge and edit it to look how I want it to. It’s pretty simple.