Adding photos to your posts is a great way in which to get people to notice your blog and stop for a moment. A great photo can be so compelling as to make someone stop and take notice. With any hosting site you can copy the embed code and place photos on your blog posts pretty easily, but what if there was an easier way? Maybe you don’t take your own photos but would like to use other photos to express your points, that might be trickier with licenses and other factors. I’ve listed below a few WordPress plugins that can help you with those issues.
Picapp – The Picapp plugin is very useful if you don’t take your own photos and you’d like to be able to use some photos from the best journalistic and creative photographers in the business. Picapp has partners in Getty Images, Corbis, Newsroom and many others. With this plugin you will be able to select photos right from your WordPress “Edit Post” screen. You are given a window to view the image and select the one that you want. You can even search for the topic, celebrity or event that you are blogging about, there will be images. Picapp is very timely so if you are writing blog posts about current events you should be looking at Picapp.
Embed Image – This plugin from EmbedAnything is a great way to allow your content to be embedded on other blogs. You can choose to allow your photos as well as your written content to be copied and embedded on another blog with built in links of attribution back to you. And what’s more you can include ad code to be shown on that image automatically. You can choose the ad code or ad code will automatically be added. A great way to put in your affiliate links in return for someone using your content.
Here is an example of an embedded image being used.
Picasa Widget – The Picasa widget plugin allows you to easily add a sidebar showcasing your latest Picasa images. With this widget you can showcase a random assortment of your Picasa images or the most recent thumbnails from your galleries. I’m not overly impressed with the limited functionality of this plugin because I would much rather have the ability to control which album will be used to show images. However, the controls are pretty good and you can make many adjustments to size as well as layout of the images. If only you had more control over which albums were displayed it would be a much more usable widget for me.
WP Flickr – The WP Flickr plugin is similar to the picapp plugin in that you get a window where you can choose images from your Flickr library. The nice thing is that you can choose any of the standard sizes and then choose your image. You can also choose from any of your sets or directly from your public photostream. It is easy to connect to your Flickr account and a simple way to add your photos to you blog. The title of your image automatically becomes the image alt text too.
What are some photo related plugins that you would recommend for WordPress users? Please share them in the comments.
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These plugins are essential for us if we wish to publish a fantastic photo along with our article in WordPress blog. I think we can use the SEO Friendly Image plugin too to add more value to our photo.
that is the trouble that i always have… thank god i found your blog… be4 this, i only corp and paste pic from Internet.. is it acceptable to google??
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Keep on the good job! Thanks! Admin
The problem with some of these plugins is the fact that you are hosting photo's off site and giving these other sites the traffic that you should have.
I would recommend NextGen photo as it solves all of these problems and does all of what the plugins mentioned do and considerably more.
There are a lot of photo plugins out there but I will definitely try these out. Thanks for sharing. These plugins will really help bloggers like me improve blog visibility and give it better navigational features. Thanks admin for the recommendations.
I like two Gallery plug-ins. "Simpleviewer" and "Tiltviewer" by Airtight Interactive. Simpleviewer for a great Gallery effect and Tiltviewer because you can tilt to the back of the photo and show a description and price if you want to sell the product, artwork or craft item.
This is great! I've always have trouble finding the right pictures for my posts especially with licenses and copyrights issues.
After reading this, I've installed the PicApp plugin and it's great.
Thanks for sharing, BenSpark.
An excellent article. I'm definitely adding this to my inventory of tips and incorporating some of your recommendations in my own blog.
Great post…has tons of useful information.