You CAN insert a Flickr slideshow!
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Am I way off the back, or is this new? I’m not sure what’s changed – I thought Flickr slideshows weren’t supported. Maybe something to do with Flickr’s recent redesign?
Here’s what I did: I used Flickr’s ‘blog this’ feature to insert a photo into a post. Knowing the slideshow wouldn’t work, I then grabbed the URL for the slideshow (NOT the embed code) and pasted that into the post. I hoped the link to the slideshow would appear – instead the slideshow works!
See it here:
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Sorry, wrong link; try this one:
http://bridgerivertrails.wordpress.com/brts-projects-and-news/ -
Looks like video was enabled in January:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/flickr-video/
It’s not included in the Slideshow page dated March 31, 2010:
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Flickr slideshows have never worked with WordPress, so far as I know – searching the forum only brings up frustrated people wondering why. And nothing in the official documentation says it will work either. I don’t know why, but I’m glad it does now!
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I know. What I meant to say is, you’re the first to discover this. It’s definitely going to make people happy.
Staff often enable features and sometime later or maybe never announce them.
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My first internet ‘win’, I guess. It’s certainly slick, I tried a different theme and the slideshow resized automatically.
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sewsewgrammy, we can’t help without knowing what you attempted; the exact steps. These are the official instructions:
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@trailsforme This is great that it worked for you. I tried this in a post just now, and got excited because a big black box appeared, but it never ultimately played. (The post in question, before someone jumps on me for not linking a WrodPress.com blog, is http://plummershollow.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/a-walk-up-plummers-hollow/ .) Perhaps this has to do with the browser I’m in (Firefox)? I dunno. Enticing development, though.
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I suspect this has to do with changes in WordPress rather than changes specifically authorized in WordPress.com. Since 2.9, those of us on independently hosted sites have been able to embed videos from major providers like YouTube and Vimeo simply putting in the URL on a line by itself, separated by a space from another line. I tried this just now on a draft post at the above-linked WordPress.com blog with a Vimeo video — no shortcode, just the URL — and it played. I then substituted a YouTube URL (the one you get by clicking the “share” button) and that appeared as well. (Sorry if this has already been pointed out elsewhere in the forums. I’m not around much.)
Here’s the Codex page on this new easy embedding feature: http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
Note that Flickr is among those listed. (I’m sure Googling “oEmbed” will turn up pleny more for those interested in the technical aspects of this.) -
Hey sonofbruce – I’m no expert at this stuff, so I can’t really advise you, but I have been experimenting a bit. This time I just pasted the URL into a new post right on my dashboard, it really does work:
http://bridgerivertrails.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/testing-flickr-slideshows/
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@trails4me: Strangely, your slideshow URL works but sonofbruce’s doesn’t.
@sonofbruce: You can do it the way I’m suggesting here.
[gigya src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" width="NUMBER HERE" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/89056025%40N00/sets/72157623912877003/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/89056025%40N00/sets/72157623912877003/&set_id= 72157623912877003&jump_to=" allowFullScreen="true" ] -
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So how do you embed someone else’s Flickr slideshow (ie. I don’t have access to the “Blog this” button)?
What’s the code for embedding Flickr slideshows in WordPress.COM?
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@timethief, yes I read the entries and tried all the options, including @panaghiotisadam’s
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Well I don’t see anything in support documentation so I guess the only information we have to go on is found in this thread. If that doesn’t suffice then contacting Staff may be the next step http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ Best wishes for a happy ending. :)
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@willcoley: Since I’m only giving an example above, not instructions, link to the slideshow you’re interested in and I’ll probably be able to give you the right code for it.
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I also had the same problem as willcoley. I know enough about HTML to do this, but it seems to be eluding me. If one of you people in the know could post the code and include something like”{slideshow url here}” etc, that would be great.
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