Wordpress Plug-in of the week: Photo Dropper — The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

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1 Jayson February 23, 2008 at 1:09 am Click to follow me on twitter: Looks like a pretty sweet plugin Jay - are the pictures royalty free?
2 Keiron February 23, 2008 at 1:41 am: My prayers were answered with this plugin, I was about to write something similar myself (or pay someone to write it!!). I posted about it earlier this week!
3 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy February 23, 2008 at 2:19 am Click to follow me on twitter: > are the pictures royalty free?

Indeed they are Jayson! It only searches Flickr for photos that the photographers have labeled as “creative commons”. Free with the link attribution.

@Keiron it’s a fabulous plugin!
4 Dru Bloomfield February 23, 2008 at 6:23 am Click to follow me on twitter: Thanks for the share, Jay.

This will be great for the photographers, too.
5 Keiron February 23, 2008 at 6:39 am: Just be careful of the disclaimer - I’ve posted about it here:

Be careful using Photo Dropper
6 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy February 23, 2008 at 10:53 am Click to follow me on twitter: Keiron - agreed, and thanks for pointing that out. I put a sentence at the bottom of the post about commercial blogs. I’m going to go in and bold it and link to your post because it is *really* important. And more later on real estate blogs in particular being “commercial” blogs.
7 John Lockwood February 23, 2008 at 9:24 pm Click to follow me on twitter: Nice lightening.
8 Heather Adams February 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm: Wow, this is great. Thanks for the heads up.
9 Keiron February 24, 2008 at 3:32 pm: Definitely worth doing in my opinion!
10 Carl Minicucci February 25, 2008 at 8:58 am: Hi Jay,

Thanks for the tip. I would like your opinion on one issue in using this plugin however. That is, with this plugin you are effectively including a link to photos which are hosted elsewhere. Is it not conceivable then, that the original picture could be removed or edited etc.

If my understanding above is correct, would you consider this a possible problem or am I just picking at straws?
11 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy February 25, 2008 at 3:33 pm Click to follow me on twitter: Carl - interesting question. I hadn’t thought of that. The plugin pulls in a specific URL for teh photo from Flickr. I *think* (but am not positive) that there is no way to change the photo once that URL has been generated.

Even if that’s the case, it begs the question of what happens if the photographer deletes the photo on Flickr…
12 Keiron February 26, 2008 at 3:49 am: My gut reaction is that you’re probably right - once the photo has the URL it is unlikely it could be changed for another photo - but I see no reason why it couldn’t be removed by the photographer!
13 James T Boyer March 1, 2008 at 7:49 pm: Very nice, will have to check that out for my new blog, which is just launching today.
14 Alan Daniels July 9, 2008 at 9:10 pm: Thanks for the helpful information. This will definitely come in handy!