Nov 13 2008
Slickr and WordPress Mu
One of my design goals for WordPress Mu is to be able to easily support faculty and student photo galleries. One way of doing that is to go with an externally hosted solution like Flickr, and then use a plug-in to pull said photos into WordPress posts.
Slickr is a AJAX-based plug-in for WordPress that does exactly that. It looks good — check out the demo here — but there are some practical problems with it. The biggest is that it bases its galleries on Flickr albums rather than tags. This is fine, except that non-pro, free Flickr accounts are limited to three albums, while you can have an unlimited number of tags.
It’s a useful tool, especially for those who want to have a social networking tie-in to their photo galleries, but unless I pay for pro accounts for my industrial-strength users, it’s not the right solution. Instead, I’m looking at NextGen Gallery, a locally-hosted solution that simple photo galleries, slide shows, and the uploading of zipped files.
