My Trick Or Treat Doggie Style post makes use of two great Word Press plug-ins, Light Box and Hemingway Flickr. I’m pleased with the final result, but it took a lot more effort than I had hoped. Here’s what it took to get this post working in its present form:
- Create a Flickr account.
- Upload pictures to Flickr and add them to a Flickr “set”.
- Download Light Box and Hemingway Flickr.
- Unzip them.
- Follow these instructions for acquiring a Flickr API Key and updating your unzipped lib.flickr.php file.
- FTP the plug-ins to your site as directed by their respective instructions.
- Activate both plugins.
- Configure the Hemingway Flickr options as indicated in step 5 above.
- Write a new post. Just below the area where you type the text of the post, click on the new tab labeled “Photos”.
- Hit the “Refresh” button if necessary.
- Note: At this point I decided that I wanted an easy way to get a square-sized thumbnail into my post, and I didn’t mind if the photos were compressed along the X or Y axis. I had it load the full size pictures and resized them into squares.
- Left click on a photo and then left click on “Large” (because that’s the size I wanted to have show up in the Light Box slideshow). That will insert the photo into the post.
- Edit the HTML of the post to:
- Change the width and height to both be “75″.
- Add rel=”lightbox[HalloweenDogs]“ to the beginning of the link code. This tells Light Box to handle the photo and the “[HalloweenDogs]” tells it to treat all the pictures with that code as the same photo set.
- Change the link’s “href” to point to the actual picture, not a page. This is important because otherwise Light Box won’t function properly.
- Save and publish the post.
- Test the pictures to make sure they’re functioning properly. For some reason you may need to refresh the page a couple of times or close and reopen the browser to get it to work
For more information see:
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