This latest blog plugin for WordPress, Photo Dropper, allows you to search for Creative Commons photos on Flickr and, with one click, add them into your posts.
As with most WordPress blog plugins, just download the file and upload it into your plugin directory. Once activated go to to the Photo Dropper options. For commercial use you will need to select the commercial use option – this restricts the photos in the search to those allowed for commercial use.
The Photo Dropper blog plugin is accessed through the ‘Write Post’ window. Enter in your search text and Photo Dropper will search through Flickr and return thumbnails of those images marked as Creative Commons. You can preview the photo full size and then add the photo to your post with a single click. You can add the photo as either a small, medium or large image. Photo dropper will also add the photos attributes below the image.
Flickr has one of the largest collections of photos online. Creative commons photos are photos that the owners have marked for public use at no cost. For more information on Creative Commons I suggest you read Skelliewag’s article on Creative Commons and the use of Flickr photos – this is the best article on this topic that I have read in quite some time.
This blog plugin has to be one of the best so far for 2008. It is very useful and I can foresee a lot of blogs now starting to include images in future posts.
