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Live Flickr Comment Importer

Description

This plugin uses Flickr API to import comments from you Flickr photostream
photos to a post of your choice in your WordPress Blog. It additionally
imports the Flickr Avatar Icons and displays them as appropriate.

The Live Flickr Comment Importer Plugin features

  • Uses the Flickr API via the excellent phpFlickr class
  • Can automatically detect Flickr photos embedded in the post.
  • Can also use a custom field in the post to import comments thus your Photos and posts need not have the same title
  • Comments on multiple photos can be imported in a single post
  • Also imports the flickr user icons / avatars
  • The comments are imported whenever anyone sees a post where comments are to be imported
  • Allows import of even the old comments
  • Can cache the results of flickr API
  • Show thumbnails in comments
  • Allow disallow HTML in comments
  • Exclude certain pictures using custom field
  • Favorites can also be imported as comments optionally

Installation

  1. Upload the folder ‘live-flickr-comment-importer’ into your to the
    ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ folder

    1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
    2. To configure plugin options start by clicking on ‘Configuration Page’
      link near plugin name or ‘Settings’ -> ‘Live Flickr Comment Importer’
      navigation link.
    3. You will have to enter and your flickr API key for this plugin to work.
      Flickr API key can be got from http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/
    4. For caching of Flickr API results and thus in turn a better performance
      ensure that your plugin directory must be writable by webserver.
    5. Follow the instructions given on the configuration page on how to
      import comments into a post

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Contributors & Developers

“Live Flickr Comment Importer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.9

  • Added https to the phpflickr class, the plugin should work now.

1.8

  • Added the latest phpflickr class
  • Recoded the options page according to Settings API, with some small tweaks to the UI
  • Added option for importing favorites as comments, This option intelligently tries to merge favs and comments by the same person into a single comment
  • Added option for Comment Prefix

1.7

  • Added setting to allow or disallow HTML in imported comments
  • Added setting to allow or disallow thumbnails in imported comments. Can be overridden by custom field
  • Added new custom field flickr_exclude_id to exclude comments from certain pictures
    All above added on suggestions from Tom Allen of http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/

1.6

  • Work around for some themes not passing the comment object to get_avatar, should work in all themes irrespective

1.5

  • Bug fix for comments not in correct order
  • Display of comment thumbnail configurable by post custom field ‘flickr_show_thumnail’. Set to 1 to show thumbnails. Off by default
  • Added custom field to prevent comments from being imported ‘flickr_dont_import’. Set to 1 to prevent comment importing
  • Workaround code for comments getting duplicated

1.4

  • A couple of bug fixes
  • Multiple comma separated ids can be put in custom field
  • Small thumnail of the picture added to comments

1.3.1

  • Fixed a bug with custom field not working.

1.3

  • Fixed a bug in API key saving routine.
  • Added code to allow importing of comments from multiple photos in a single post
  • Imported comments show a small thumbnail of the photo for which the comment is

1.2

  • Changed the name of phpflickr class to t_phpflickr so that it plays well with other plugins using the phpflickr class

1.1

  • Added code to try and extract Flickr Id from the URL of photos embedded

1.0

  • First release