Gareth Jones

I’ve tried about six or seven different Flickr plugins for WordPress over the last week only to be disappointed to find that they’re either clunky, only work inside the side-bar or don’t work at all. Today I finally found one that I could use as a foundation to build on.

Flickr Photo Album seems to be a fairly popular plugin that, from what I read on the forums, has sadly had many of its features break with the release of WordPress 2.8. The fact that it was so close to what I wanted though (a clean, minimal photo viewer that works in the main content area and not just in the side-bar, though side-bar support is also available) meant that it was worth trying to find out what exactly was broken and how to fix it.

After editing some code and tweaking the layout a bit, I’ve got the plugin working the way I want it to and it’s now displaying my Flickr photos in the My Flickr section.