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Flickr Overload
Thanks to a shutter happy Lucy on the end to end ride and a overly popular Time Trial season I nearly maxed out my monthly bandwidth at Flickr!
FAlbum plugin
I have been using the flickr album plugin by Ramon Darrow for my photo album but after some rooting around this afternoon I decided to switch over to FAlbum.
With a bit of help from Andreas Linde’s great walkthrough it was up and running in no time. This version looks to have nice admin plugin page which made linking to flickr easy as pie, plus it displays all recent photo’s even if they are not collated in sets.
After a few hourse tweaking and setting it all out I went back to modify some other pages and suddenly was faced with a 500 Server Error! What had just fallen apart?
I then spent a few hours getting to the root of the problem and found removing the .htaccess file for the root and removing permalinks solved it. Right turn permalinks back on; works. Turn friendly url’s on photo plugin on; works. Modify a page and save; 500 Server Error!
It turns out that the FAlbum plugin writes to the .htaccess file but in doing so erases the last #End WordPress marker so when you change a page and WordPress updates the .htaccess file it chokes on the FAlbum section. I manually added the WordPress end marker above the FAlbum being marker and so far it looks to be working ok.
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flickr it is then
we all sat in the pub last night to celebrate Sarah's birthday (hope you had a good one in the end!) and the subject of 'whatcha doing tomorrow came up'. Lucy was simple; working so that left me with two options. 1. dust off my bike and head out on ...
Flickr Photo Site
Every one has fallen in love with digital photo’s but you never really view like you should be able to because not every one has web space to share their treasures. I’ve started putting some of my pictures on this site under the media section and as good as SimpleViewer is it is a pain having to resize the photo’s create and thumbnail and modify the xml for the album.
I’ve looked at sites like photobucket and stuff but none really grabbed me with a lot of interest, until I found Flickr. I’ve noticed a few other bloggers using it and after a few days messing about I decided to purchase a pro account, for a total of £15 I can host as many photo’s as possible (there is only a 20gb monthly bandwidth limit) you can upload via email, even upload direct to a blog if needed but the real trick to me is being able to export direct from my iPhoto library to the web space without any need for modification.
I think I’m gonna try using my Flickr space as it saves my bandwidth and see how things go.