Tubby Picking a Bouquet - Acrylic on Masonite, 11" X 14"
In recent weeks, I’ve been working with Craig Carlisle to develop a custom gallery to display more than a decade of the artist’s paintings. Not only is Craig an amazing artist, he is also my brother. Due to the sheer number of images and file size, I needed a simple way to store images so they could be called dynamically into the site, but also be shared easily through numerous social applications.
We ultimately resolved that storing the paintings within a Flickr pro account would be the best alternative. Since we were going to organize Craig’s gallery of paintings based on year, Flickr’s “Sets” function was an ideal resolution. While Flickr has its own built in image share/embed application, it just didn’t meet our design requirements. This simple tutorial will share how create a custom Flickr photo gallery for WordPress.
Plugins Needed:
- Flickr Tag (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-tag/) – This plugin allows you to dynamically pull Flickr images without storing them on your server and keeps the conversation in Flickr.
- Shadowbox JS (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shadowbox-js/) – This plugin is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS; it allows you to display media (images, video, galleries, etc.) in a lightbox. Lightbox permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page. The use of the dark background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to disable the remainder of the interface.
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