So you want to spice up your posts with Flickr, Picasa, or iPhoto, images from your com­puter? You can just insert one or two using the Upload/Insert but­ton on the post edi­tor. But what if you want to have a dozen pho­tos, or have your read­ers see them as a slide show?

Here are sev­eral ways to do it:

• Embedly
• Picas­aEx­press 2 + Light­box Plus
• Cin­copa
• Flickr + High­slide — didn’t work for me. The plu­gin shows gallery, but would not load every image either when click­ing or in slideshow mode — NOT rec­om­mended.

 

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Embedly

The Embedly word­press plu­gin is the sim­plest solu­tion to show images from the cloud in your posts or pages. It extends WordPress’s built-in oEm­bed func­tion­al­ity to dis­play images from 73 (as of Nov 2010) sources by just past­ing the URL as a sin­gle line into your post. It does not require Light­box or other plu­g­ins to dis­play slide shows.

(note: I’ve noticed that Embedly doesn’t like the source URLs being enclosed in html tags, even “p” tags, so just paste those URLs in HTML view when edit­ing your Word­Press post, and don’t try to for­mat the URL. If you see the URL and not the image, check your HTML-view.)

Picasa images with Embedly

Picasa sin­gle image using Embedly

 

Picasa album using Embedly

 

Flicker images with Embedly

hover your cur­sor near the top of the image to see the slide show con­trols
and near the bot­tom to see the gallery strip

 

 

 

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Picas­aEx­press 2

The Picasa Express2 plu­gin let’s you add a photo or gallery/album from the Upload/Insert but­tons in Word­Press edit view. The slideshow func­tion is cur­rently being sup­plied by another plugnin, Ligh­box Plus. PicasaExpress2 also works with the JQurey Light­box plu­gin for slideshows as well. I used Light­box Plus because it was eas­ier to con­fig­ure and offered more configuration options. 

click a thumb­nail below to see a larger image or a slideshow

 

 

 

 

 

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Cin­copa

Cin­copa is a SaaS, cloud-based ser­vice that offers a lim­ited (but gen­er­ous) free plan for host­ing your images. It lets you con­fig­ure gal­leries and offers a vari­ety of pre­sen­ta­tions from thumb­nail gal­leries, to slide shows, to Cool Iris views both in your posts and as a wid­get in your side­bars. They also offer sup­port for pod­cast and videos as well.

One pro­fes­sional plu­gin for all your multi-media needs — Free Visit Site » : http://www.cincopa.com/

• Add Image galleries
• Add Slideshows and photo albums
• Add Video
• Add Music playlists
• Add Pod­cast and mp3
• Add Menus and much more
• Media Library
• 44 skins and more — slideshow, video play­ers, playlists, flash, full-screen, Cooliris, light­box and wed­ding skins etc
• Auto­matic upload­ing and hosting…

To use you cre­ate a gallery on the Cin­copa web­site, ether reusing exist­ing pho­tos already uploaded to you account, or upload new ones. You set the style/format for the new gallery then Cin­copa gen­er­ates a Word­Press short­code [bracket]cincopa + your gallery code[bracket] you use in you post or in the Cin­copa widget.