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Earlier this week I wrote about how you can add a shortcode to the functions.php to make it easier to use Creative Commons images on your blog, while always remembering to put in the correct attribution.

Bergen viewed from Fløien by ( d0ppler on flickr)

Adding this to your theme has some drawbacks. The most important one is that you’ll have to do it all over when you change the theme, another is that you have to add the flickr api key directly into the code.

That’s why I have just made it into a wordpress plugin. This means you just need to download the package, extract it into the plugins folder, and then use the “El Flickr” menu entry to add the flickr api key.

I have changed the flickr shortcode to elflickr, so there should be less possibility for conflict with other plugins. You chan also change the shortcode to whatever you want (including flickr) from the configuration page.

I’ve also added another feature. Lets say you need a HDR picture of Bergen, but don’t care too much which one is used, what if you could add the picture without going to flickr to look it up? The question is of course rhetorical, because now you can.

[elflickr search="HDR Bergen from Fløien"]

yields the picture in the beginning of this article. The result of the search is stored, so you don’t need to worry that the search results will change over time. It also limits the search to Creative Commons licensed pictures.

[elflickr search="Tilt shift bergen city"]

old houses in Bergen by Julia ( kroolik on flickr)

I have a lot of ideas for this plugin, the release is numbered 0.0.2, and there’s a lot of room for improvements. For instance I will incorporate the gallery into the plugin, which currently is implemented in my theme.

Download el_flickr 0.0.2


If your blog is hosted on my server, I will install it for you if you ask me to.

The plugin just generates the HTML code, you need to style it using your stylesheet, see the flickr shortcode for an example, and for more examples on how to use the plugin.

Planned improvements:

• styling from configuration page
• configuration of licenses to search for
• more caching of rest call results
• integrate the gallery into the plugin
• provide a default theme
• search by geolocation

Jeg prøver å dra i gang en foredragsserie for BLUG (Bergen Linux User Group), “Linux som kreativ platform“, innenfor rammene av BLUGs foredragsserie Last Thursday, som avholdes siste torsdag hver måned i skole-året (jan-mai, aug-nov) i Auditorium Pi på matematisk institutt.
Jeg er på jakt etter folk som har erfaring med grafikk/lyd/video på linux, og som kunne tenke seg å holde foredrag om det.
Målet med foredragsserien er å vise at Linux kan brukes til videoproduksjon, billedbehandling, 3D-modellering etc.

Følgende temaer har blitt foreslått:

• Linux som platform for musikkproduksjon (Jokosher, Rosegarden, …)
• Linux som platform for billedbehandling (Gimp/F-spot/RAW-bildehåndtering…/…)
• Linux som platform for tegning (Inkscape/Sodipodi/OOo-draw/…)
• Linux som platform for 3d-grafikk (Blender/…)
• Linux som platform for videoredigering (Cinelerra/Kino/…)
• Linux som platform for desktop publishing (Scribus/…)
• Linux som platform for sanntids media (Pure Data/FreeJ/…)

Nylig har det også blitt foreslått et foredrag om lydteknikk, men som jeg føler ikke går inn under hverken “Linux”-paraplyen eller “kreativ platform”-paraplyen. Selv om det unektelig hadde vært interressant.

Det eneste feltet her der vi har et navn på blokken er musikkproduksjon, men forslag der også mottas med takk.

I morgen er det forresten foredrag om Kerberos