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Easily embed slideshows of your Flickr photosets in your posts and pages with this Flickr set slideshows plugin.

Download the plugin

Once you have linked your Flickr account to the plugin (see settings section below), creating a slideshow of one of your Flickr photosets is as easy as choosing the set and the slideshow’s dimensions from a drop down list. You can then embed the slideshow anywhere in your posts or pages by copying and pasting a shortcode. When you create or edit a slideshow, Flickr set slideshow will provide you with an instant preview.

From here:

• Screenshots
• Changelog
• Installation
• Plugin setup
• User guide
• FAQs

Screenshots

Slideshow in a blog post

Settings page

Creating a slideshow

Slideshow listing and editing page

Changelog

Current version: 0.2

• fixed broken submission url when WordPress files installed in directory other than root
• Updated FAQ

Installation

The easy way

1. Download the plugin – it will come as a .zip file
2. Log in to your WordPress dashboard
3. Go to Plugins > Add new
4. Under the ‘Install Plugins’ header, click ‘Upload’
5. Click the ‘Choose File’ button, browse your computer to find the .zip file downloaded at step 1, click ‘Install now’
6. Click the ‘Activate plugin’ link

See the next section (‘Plugin setup’) to link the plugin to your Flickr account.

The show off way

1. Download the plugin .zip file
2. Unzip the file
3. Upload the ‘flickr-set-slideshows’ directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

See the next section (‘Plugin setup’) to link the plugin to your Flickr account.

Plugin Setup

To link the plugin to your Flickr account:

1. Get your Flickr username; that is the name that appears in the top right-hand corner of the screen when you are logged in to Flickr – ‘Signed in as…’
2. Get a Flickr API Key - the following Youtube video will tell you how:
3. Go to your WordPress dashoboard
4. Go to ‘Settings’ >’Flickr set slideshows’
5. Enter your Flickr username and API key
6. Click ‘Save changes’, and you’re ready to go!

User guide

To create a new slideshow

From your WordPress dashboard,

1. Go to ‘Flickr Set Slideshows’ > ‘Add new’,
2. Select a photoset from the drop down list,
3. Select a size for your slideshow,
4. Click ‘Save changes’,
5. A confirmation message will appear at the top of the screen with a shortcode following the format , where XX is a number.
6. Copy and paste this shortcode wherever you want the slideshow to appear in your posts and pages.

To insert a slideshow into a post or page

On creating a slideshow, you will receive a shortcode following the format , where XX is a number. Copy and paste this code in the page or post where you want the slideshow to appear.

You can come back to the shortcode later, it will be saved in your slideshow listing at ‘Flickr set slideshows’ > ‘Flickr set slideshows’.

To edit/remove a slideshow

You can do this from your slideshow listing located at ‘Flickr set slideshows’ > ‘Flickr set slideshows’

Note the deleting a slideshow will remove it from the posts and pages in which you have inserted it.

To change the size of a slideshow, simply click on the ‘change size’ link of the corresponding slideshow, choose a new size from the drop down list and Voila!

FAQs

I’ve installed the plugin. What now?

You need to link it to your Flickr account. To do this, log in to your WordPress dashboard, go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Flickr set slideshows’. Enter your Flickr username and a Flickr API key – have a look above at the ‘Plugin setup’ section for more details.

What is my Flickr username exactly?

It’s the name that appears in the top right-hand corner of the screen when you are logged in to Flickr – ‘Signed in as…’. Like so:

How do I get an API key

The following Youtube video explains how to get an API key for the Flickr Set Slideshows plugin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1XRx6dsDU (it’s the same video that can be played from the ‘Plugin setup’ section above).

Some of my Flickr photosets are not appearing in my set list. Why?

Only the sets that are public can be used by this plugin. Private sets (which is any set that contains at least one private picture) will not be returned by Flickr to be publicly displayed as a slideshow. Make sure that all the sets you want to show in your website are public. If the problem persists, please get in touch (see below).

Where do I go to report bugs, for complaints, moans, suggestions or to sing your praises?

Just send an email to info@majweb.co.uk, alternatively, leave a comment below!