Adding a Photo Album To Your Blog

Saw this on your blog lately. It is a cool plugin. I like the name too - Tan Tan Noodles

Very cool plugin for photos. I used to run a blog about parenting dad style and I used WP-Photo Album for my photo gallery. It is also a very good plugin.

John,

WOW! how freaky that you should do a post on this as over the last few days I have been working on the gallery2 free download for pictures on my website. I have just set up the database for it and I am in the middle of customizing it.

I can have as many photo’s as I want and host them on my own server. this is the same program shoemoney uses, and it’s free.

If I had known of this plugin I probably would have gone that way and saved heaps of time.

It’s quite a nice set up, my only problem with using something like this is that if you have multiple contributors to a magazine using WordPress is that you can’t pull photos in from all their flickr accounts.

For a multi user environment I’ve found NextGen gallery really good, and it doesn’t take too much configuring.

That’s some good stuff. A good way of sharing tons of photos without hurting your bandwith! Easy WP integration is also great.

cool! this is something i’ve been wanting to add to my blog for a little while. It’s now on the list of stuff to do. I only see one photo though when i go to your page. are you using it fully yet or is it just me?

also the link “back to gallery” brings me back to the home page.

sean

Great idea. The same solution doesn’t yet exist for Blogger, which has poor photo management tools through Picassa.
Amazon offers a similar service at very low cost (useful for people who aren’t using the WP engine, maybe Joomla instead), which gives lots of storage space and bandwidth.

Recommendation for new bloggers: If you want to use lots of photos without the expense, consider using the space your ISP gives you as a photo storage site, then link to your photos from your blog. A little HTML will give you all the control you need. Not slick or simple, but free, and knowing some HTML is very useful when blogging.
Once your blog gets popular enough to justify the expense, then pay for the Flickr service or whatever alternative works.

I’m using tantannoodles flickr plugin too.. really effective and I’ve also signed up Flickr Premium Nice one John

It’s really nice pic.
Thanks for your post John !

John, I’ve added this plugin right after I saw it on your blog. And I’m very pleased I did.

Very nice! Bookmarked, downloaded and soon to be installed. This find couldn’t have come at a better time. Thanks John.

Looks neat. Hope this plugin will work with WP 2.7 so I’m holding back on implementing this until then.

Nice photos. I wish i were there…

Never heard about Flickr Photo Album plugin before, i’ll try it soon

your welcome =P - tan tan has done a great job with this plugin - I kinda edited mine a little more extensively.

Nice pictures,thanks for your post : )
I want know how can i add a video collection at my blog ,any one know ?

Very cool John, thanks for the heads up on where to get this.

Do you know where thre is a plug in for adding a link exchange on your site. One that is like directories?

And if you want to embed an animated (Flash) Flickr gallery inside a blog post which shows off a big image with scrolling thumbnails for others, I can’t recommend PictoBrowser enough. It’s lightweight, elegant, and gets the job done. You can even customize colors to match.

I made a fun little video tutorial for it:

» http://torley.com/very-nice-clean-flickr-embed-tool-pictobrowser

What’s even neater is there’s a cool Flickr Set Manager tool which creates AUTO-UPDATED sets based on criteria you specify! This makes it super-easy to embed a PictoBrowser based on one of those refreshed sets and show all photos you’ve tagged with “money” or whatever.

» http://torley.com/flickr-set-manager-auto-generates-useful-sets

I’m not affiliated with these. I, like John, like sharing cool tools!

Up next : Joel Comm sells an ebook on how to make money with the Flickr Wordpress plugin for 19.95

nice tool!!!

Its a great plugin…looks cool on your site

It’s always nice to have an album on the page of what you are doing so that people will know that you are a human. Question: I noticed that you can look at one photo at a time. Do you know of any plugin or if you could do it with this plugin what would almost make it a slide show or that you could scroll through the large photos?

I have not tried Flickr yet, but have always heard great things about it, thanks John for the great guide, as always

Stay Evil,
JR

I have been using another flickr plugin, check my site to see how you like it.

I think that photos can bring a blog to life as long as they are are relevent to the content. This plugin is one of the best. I plan on using it as soon as I figure out how best to use it for my site.

Cheers for the post

I don’t use Flickr, but I know people who do, so I’ll tell them about this post. Some have been having trouble trying to combine Flickr & Wordpress together, so this plugin would be godsend for them.

I would feel wierd if strangers were looking at my photoes. But if I was a mega blogger like John, then who knows..

Very cool! I will add it to my WP blog as soon as it is set up. I do wish they would make one for Blogger!

Hey John, just wanted to say thanks for the link and mention! I’m glad you’re finding the plugin helpful

Thanks for that tip. I have always wanted to do this for my blog but I was not sure if it would be good for a celebrity blog. Thanks for the advice though. I’m going to check into this.

Looks like a cool plugin, but I have SEO questions.

On many of our older posts, I would use a main header image for the post, followed by text, then a slideshow using flickrslidr. Using that setup, I found that my header image titles drew significant traffic from google images.

With WP 2.6 (haven’t done 2.7 yet..I know, I know) galleries, I have been careful with image titles and the search engines seem to be responding to it. So….my question is: Will the search engines find the image tags and follow to the actual Flickr page, or will they follow to the WP page?

Any thoughts?

nice plugin especially if edit and use it to make photoblog theme for wordpress,
should be nice..

I was recently looking through your blog and noticed this photo album. It works great and it’s a great thing that it’s embedded into the blog, so readers could navigate elsewhere easily.

-Mike

wow nice plugin, im definitely going to check it out.. yeah and the name tan tan noodles is very cool..

Great post

It would appear that your akismet is failing!

Thanks for the headsup on the plugin! Just what I needed. This will be a great way for me to display our group flickr account..Coming out soon. thanks again and continued success.

I think adding photos is really cool! I put up all my vacation photos on my blog also. I mean what the heck? I get my vacation money from my blog so the people paying for them should get a little glimpse….right?