Integrating Flickr to your website is a rational move. Flickr is one of the largest image and video hosting cum sharing platform. Recently, Flickr had announced an exponential increase in its storage which makes it all the more enticing. There is some debate as to whether Google’s new Photos service will give Flickr a run for its money, especially with its larger storage and given the clout of the search engine giant, but it is safe to infer that Flickr will remain relevant and very useful for webmasters and companies all over the world for now. Integrating Flickr to your WordPress website is very easy. All you need is one of the many WordPress Flickr plugins. Here are some of the best WordPress Flickr plugins for you to choose.
1. Slickr Flickr
Another simple plugin, Slickr Flickr allows you to host a gallery with all your Flickr photos and you can have slideshows, posts loaded with such photos or even sidebar widgets displaying the images. The plugin is useful for different kinds of text widgets, supports photos of various sizes and resolutions including landscape and portrait frames. You can have all your photos sorted with title, description and date.
You may also choose to have captions and links that can connect your album, gallery or the webpage back to Flickr. The slideshows can be automated or you can opt for manual browsing. Slickr Flickr is compatible with various other apps including Evolution LightBox, Highslide, FancyBox, LightBox Plus, Slimbox, Pretty Photo, ShadowBox, Thickbox and Shutterbox.
2. Flickr Photostream
Flickr Photostream is now available as Flickr Justified Gallery. This is one of the finest apps to organize the manner in which your photos would be displayed. The fine grid like system that the plugin facilitates is easy on the eye and quite appealing at the same time. The plugin comes with photosets, group pools, galleries, tags and a layout that you would instantly start to like. The entire grid like system of displaying images is customizable. You can choose everything from the size of the grids to the height of the rows or placement to the number of images being placed in every row.
The latest version of this plugin has a similar layout as you would find on Google+ or Flickr. You can configure this layout as well. The lightweight plugin smartly categorizes or clubs images that have similar tags or as you would want to arrange the tags, there can be multiple galleries on the same page, images of different sizes and resolutions would be managed differently and you can customize this setting as well, the titles of the images are displayed when one hovers the mouse over it, the URLs and tags can be optimized to meet SEO requirements and the plug-in is available in English as well as Italian.
3. FlickrRSS
FlickrRSS is one of the simplest and lightest WordPress Flickr plugins. There’s no fuss or complication. It is a simple plugin that allows you to put up your Flickr photos on the website or blog. You can have user generated content, connect your Flickr galleries or albums and you can have community photostreams.
4. Flickr Photo Album
This is one of the simplest WordPress Flickr plugins. It allows you to sync your Flickr account or photo page with your website gallery or album. You can have your Flickr photos or photosets and have them displayed as albums or galleries on your WordPress website. The plugin comes with a template that can be customized entirely so you can have some uniformity in design, font, color and other visual elements.
You may also choose to use the template just as it is. You can use the photos from your Flickr profile or you can source the photos from the website to your Flickr page. This vice versa correspondence and sync is really helpful. You can use back-links to have your photos on the website connected to the album page or you can have viewers get redirected to your Flickr page and you can also get visitors from your Flickr page get redirected to the album or gallery on the website, using the same Flickr Photo Album plugin.
