Trying Photo Dropper

photo credit: Okko PyykkĂś

My blog is in great need of blog post images. Without them posts look kinda dull and unwelcoming thus I have decided to change that. My friend Kacper recommended me a Photo Dropper, a Wordpress plugin that lets you add Creative Commons licensed photos from Flickr into your Wordpress posts.

Sounds good to me. I’ll give it a shot and give you a step by step tutorial on how to install the plugin and insert photos into your blog post. I must admit that I love the whole way how you can install stuff on Wordpress. It is just so easy and if something doesn’t work, nothing changes to your initial Wordpress setup. How cool is that? Awesomely cool, that’s how.

And so, lets see how can you integrate Photo Dropper plugin with Wordpress and add images to your posts.

1. Download the Photo Dropper plugin from here
2. Extract the archive. It should create photo_dropper folder
3. Using an FTP client upload photo_dropper plugin to your plugin directory (default is /wp-content/plugins)
4. In your Wordpress Dashboard go to Plugins and activate Photo Dropper
5. Now do to Settings, select Photo Dropper tab. This is where you configure your plugin. If you run a commercial blog be sure that “Show only photos that can be used commercially” option is checked
6. After activation and configuration plugin is ready to be used. Now it is “Photo Dropper Browse Photos” panel right under your Write Post (or Write Page) editor that allows you to search for images. Lets do that now
7. In the search box enter keywords for images, click “Search” and browse through the results.
8. Notice that under every picture there are letters S,M,L corresponding to various sizes of an image
9. Click one of those letters to insert image with a specific size.
10. And that is it. The image is there, credited and linked. Awesome.

This is it. Few simple steps to get images into your posts. It can’t get much more easier than this. During the time spent on writing this tutorial I’ve also added photos to my blog and now so can you.