Best Flickr Plugin For WordPress

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Would you like to import images from your Flickr account into your blog? That’s easy with the plugins we review today.

Slickr Flickr

A Flickr WordPress plugin to display your photos either as a gallery, a galleria or a unbranded slideshow in posts, pages, and sidebar widgets.

Displays Flickr photos as a gallery, a galleria, or an unbranded slideshow (i.e. not Flickr’s own slideshow widget)
Uses “slickr-flickr” shortcode to make it as easy as possible to show your Flickr photos on WordPress
Works well in posts, pages and text widgets in the sidebar, at different sizes, with portrait and landscape photos
Sorts photos by date, title or description
With or without captions, photo descriptions and links back to Flickr
With manual or autoplay slideshows
Works with various LightBoxes such as Evolution LightBox, FancyBox, Highslide, LightBox Plus, Pretty Photo, Slimbox, ShadowBox, Shutterbox and ThickBox.
See http://www.slickrflickr.com/ for tutorials on using the plugin
See http://www.slickrflickr.com/pro/ for Pro Edition Priority Support and Bonus Features
New release 1.43 has improved LightBox integration for FancyBox, Highslide and PrettyPhoto and the latest Galleria 1.2.8

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Awesome Flickr Gallery

Awesome Flickr Gallery is a simple, fast and light plugin to create a gallery of your Flickr photos on your WordPress enabled website. This plugin aims at providing a simple yet customizable way to create clean and professional looking Flickr galleries.

Features:

Fast and light – uses intelligent caching to load galleries instantly
Support for both Public and Private photos
Create multiple galleries with different parameters
Select Photos from your Flickr Photostream, a Photoset, a Gallery, a Group or a set of tags
Multiple sorting options available so that you don’t have to rely on Flickr’s sorting options
Customizable image sizes with cropping settings
Infinitely customizable with custom CSS field
Fits into a sidebar widget too
Insert multiple galleries on same page with independent slideshow and pagination
Fits automatically according to the width of the theme or you can select the width of the gallery yourself
Ability to disable built-in slideshow so that you can use a slideshow plugin of your choice
Intuitive menu pages with easy configuration options and photo previews
SEO friendly, all your photos are available to search engine crawlers

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Written by Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.