Live Flickr Comment Importer

Description

This plugin uses Flickr API to import comments from you Flickr photostream
photos to a post of your choice in your WordPress Blog. It additionally
imports the Flickr Avatar Icons and displays them as appropriate.

The Live Flickr Comment Importer Plugin features

• Uses the Flickr API via the excellent phpFlickr class
• Can automatically detect Flickr photos embedded in the post.
• Can also use a custom field in the post to import comments thus your Photos and posts need not have the same title
• Comments on multiple photos can be imported in a single post
• Also imports the flickr user icons / avatars
• The comments are imported whenever anyone sees a post where comments are to be imported
• Allows import of even the old comments
• Can cache the results of flickr API
• Show thumbnails in comments
• Allow disallow HTML in comments
• Exclude certain pictures using custom field
• Favorites can also be imported as comments optionally

Installation

1. Upload the folder ‘live-flickr-comment-importer’ into your to the
   ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ folder
   1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
   2. To configure plugin options start by clicking on ‘Configuration Page’
      link near plugin name or ‘Settings’ -> ‘Live Flickr Comment Importer’
      navigation link.
   3. You will have to enter and your flickr API key for this plugin to work.
      Flickr API key can be got from https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/
   4. For caching of Flickr API results and thus in turn a better performance
      ensure that your plugin directory must be writable by webserver.
   5. Follow the instructions given on the configuration page on how to
      import comments into a post

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Changelog

1.9

• Added https to the phpflickr class, the plugin should work now.

1.8

• Added the latest phpflickr class
• Recoded the options page according to Settings API, with some small tweaks to the UI
• Added option for importing favorites as comments, This option intelligently tries to merge favs and comments by the same person into a single comment
• Added option for Comment Prefix

1.7

• Added setting to allow or disallow HTML in imported comments
• Added setting to allow or disallow thumbnails in imported comments. Can be overridden by custom field
• Added new custom field flickr_exclude_id to exclude comments from certain pictures
  All above added on suggestions from Tom Allen of https://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/

1.6

• Work around for some themes not passing the comment object to get_avatar, should work in all themes irrespective

1.5

• Bug fix for comments not in correct order
• Display of comment thumbnail configurable by post custom field ‘flickr_show_thumnail’. Set to 1 to show thumbnails. Off by default
• Added custom field to prevent comments from being imported ‘flickr_dont_import’. Set to 1 to prevent comment importing
• Workaround code for comments getting duplicated

1.4

• A couple of bug fixes
• Multiple comma separated ids can be put in custom field
• Small thumnail of the picture added to comments

1.3.1

• Fixed a bug with custom field not working.

1.3

• Fixed a bug in API key saving routine.
• Added code to allow importing of comments from multiple photos in a single post
• Imported comments show a small thumbnail of the photo for which the comment is

1.2

• Changed the name of phpflickr class to t_phpflickr so that it plays well with other plugins using the phpflickr class

1.1

• Added code to try and extract Flickr Id from the URL of photos embedded

1.0

• First release