This photo was taken near my office and is part of an ongoing series documenting discarded chairs that I’ve come across on the streets of Glasgow. It has absolutely nothing to do with my work here at the Uni – its really just a test to find out about posting photo’s from flickr. Seems to work better than posting directly into wordpress and it doesn’t seem to use up any of your wordpress memory allocation.
If you’re interested click on the photo and this will take you to my flickr account – where there are a few other discarded chairs.
I’m testing this because I’m hoping to set up a Student Network/Glasgow Uni photoblog project next semester but also, Tatiana (who is doing our PG blog using wordpress) has been experiencing quite a few problems when uploading photo’s into wordpress and I wanted to try and sort this out.
So, the first thing to do is open a flickr account and upload your photo’s (though you do have a 20mb monthly upload limit!). Once you’ve done this follow these instructions which I’ve pasted from the worpress FAQ section.
- Sign up for a Flickr account
- Log on to flickr.com and go to Your Account
- Under the Blogging heading, click Your Blogs
- Click Set up a new blog
- Select WordPress blog and click Next
- Enter the API endpoint:
http://yourblogname.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php - Enter your WordPress.com login and password and click Next
- Finish the form (it may have been changed)
- When you want to blog a photo, look for the Blog This button right above it (you may have to click the photo first to make the buttons appear above it)
- In the popup, click your blog’s name and finish the form that appears.
Before you post its worth choosing a layout option – you should see this option after you’ve set everything up.
You can also post with text, or add the text once it’s in your blog.
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