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Posting Photos From Flickr

Many people manage and share their photos at Flickr. It’s very easy and fast to upload a photo and share with family and friends, or participate in an online photography group. Sometimes you would like to also feature a particular photo on your blog, whether it’s yours or a really great capture spotted on somebody else’s Flickr page.

You have two options for getting photos onto your blog:

  • There’s the option of uploading the file and creating a new post. Movable Type eases the processes of making thumbnails, generating the HTML, and creating the entry, but this still requires a few steps on your part. Especially if the image is yours, you’ll have to upload the file to both Flickr and your blog.

  • Flickr has some good tools for integrating the two systems.

    1. Login to Flickr
    2. Visit Flickr’s Add a Weblog page. NYU Blogs is a Movable Type blog. Click Next.

    3. Fill the fields with the following values:

      MT cgi-binhttp://blogs.nyu.edu/movabletype/
      Username<NetID>
      Password<Web Services Password>

      Note: Your Web Services Password is different than the password you use to login to NYU Blogs. It exists so that you may safely share a password with 3rd-party providers without sacrificing the security of your login credentials.

      To find (and set) your Web Services Password, view your NYU Blogs profile by clicking your NetID (next to the Logout link) at the top right of the interface. The password will be obscured in the field. Clicking the Reveal link will popup up a dialog box with a plain-text version of your password.

    4. Choose the weblog that you would like to post photos to. Click Next.

      If you only have one blog, Flickr may skip this step.

    5. Confirm your details and click All Done.

      To ensure that everything is configured correctly, go to Flickr’s Your Blog page and click the “Test Post” button. You should see both a confirmation from Flickr and a new post on your blog.

    6. In Flickr, find a photo you like and go to its page.

      Above the photo will be a toolbar containing, amongst other items, a Blog This button. Click the button and choose the blog you want to post the photo to.

      Flickr toolbar screenshot

    7. Fill in the entry’s title and message and click Post Entry. Quick! Visit your blog.

Flickr provides you with many options for customizing how the entry is posted to your blog. See their Blogging Documentation for further info.

Posted by Amit Snyderman on September 12, 2007 12:00 PM |