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Flickr is a web-based photo management application which allows users to upload, organize and share their favorite photos. It takes care of your image resizing, allows you to tag your photos, and even enables notes and comments to be submitted on each photo by visitors. What’s more, with just a few clicks, you can post a photo from your Flickr account onto your WordPress.com blog.

Setting up Flickr

  1. Sign up for a free Flickr account over on http://flickr.com/.
  2. After logging in, visit the Your Account page.

  3. On the Your Account page, click the Sharing & Extending tab.

  4. Click the More sites button and choose the WordPress option.

  5. Enter the API Endpoint: http://yourblogname.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php, along with your WordPress.com username and password. Then click the Next button.

  6. You’re all set, time to start blogging.

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Blogging Your Photos

When you want to blog a photo, click on a photo from your photostream and look for the Share button right above it. This will cause a pop up to appear where you can then select your blog from the list.

Complete the post information, including the title (by default, this will be the image’s name) and content and then click Post.

Now you can view your blog to see your latest post, which you created without ever logging into your WordPress.com dashboard!

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Flickr Widget

In addition to blogging your photos directly to your WordPress.com blog we also have a Flickr widget that makes it easy to show thumbnails of your latest Flickr photos in your sidebar.

For more information on setting up the Flickr widget please visit this support doc.

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Troubleshooting

If you are having trouble getting your blog connected to Flickr you may want to take a look at the Flickr Blogging Help page.

Still confused?

Contact support.