Using Flickr Slideshows in Plone
Flickr is a great tool for organizing and managing your photos. Learn how to insert a Flickr slideshow into your Plone site.
Flickr is a popular, low-cost, powerful web-based service for storing, managing and sharing photos. As such, it makes an excellent tool for creating and sharing polished slideshows. Even better, it is very easy to integrate Flickr slideshows directly into a Plone website. Here are two ways you can embed a slideshow.
Using embed code
You can go to any collection of images in Flickr and initiate a slideshow via the Slideshow button in the upper-right corner of the Flickr site.
Once you've done that, notice the Share link in the upper-right corner. There you will find several ways to share the slideshow, including using the embed code.
Copy the entire embed code and paste it into a page on your site. Make sure you're editing in HTML mode so the code gets applied properly.
Example:
Using iframes
Step 1
Create a Flickr account. It’s free…well sort of. You will find that pretty soon you will bump up against their upload limit on the free account. But, you would be hard pressed to find a better deal than $25/year for the Flickr Pro Account. When you are ready use one of their uploading tools to bulk upload your photos. Also, be sure to check out How to get the most out of Flickr so you can begin to take advantage of all the tools now at your fingertips.
Step 2
Organize and tag your photos. You can even encourage others who have Flickr accounts to use your Flickr email address to send you their favorite images. Or better yet if they have a Flickr account give them a unique tag so you can see their photos. When you have a “photo set” or tag that has a good amount of photos in it, it is time to build a simple slideshow for your Plone site.
Step 3
Use this handy tool to get the HTML code you will need to insert a slideshow into your website. The tool allows you to show all your photos, a photo set, photos in your collection that have a certain tag, or all the photos on Flickr that has that tag (!).
Step 4
Create a page in your site (ideally in a folder that you perhaps call "Photo Gallery"). Click Kupu's HTML button to view the raw HTML code of your page, then paste in the code you just generated in Step 3.
Example
As an example here is a sample slideshow built of all photos in Flickr tagged with "Plone."
