If you don’t like to organize your photos into photosets, or are frustrated by the 3-photoset limit imposed on the Flickr free accounts, FAlbum can also display your tags, and turns a chosen tag into a formated album. In the option page of FAlbum, you can also set the thumbnail size, number of photos per page, whether the ‘private’ photos are shown, etc., it is comprehensive and easy to configure.

I joined Flickr for a while but haven’t really used it. I have got a Pro account (just about HK$17 per month) and am now uploading old photos, most of them were taken by my dad during his travels. I guess this is an easy way to display his photos for him

I just wonder whether it is possible to display photos from a Flickr group, or from my Flickr favourite list … it would be nice if these features are added in the next version.

To keep track of what I have done, here is the first one of “My … List” series (though it is uncertain whether it will really become a series) :

My WordPress Plugin List
(last upate: 2005.08.16)

Currently Using:

• Spam Karma 2.0 – better user interface, easier to administer
• Spam Karma 2 Stats
• Wordspew – using Ajax, this shoutbox can reload itself without reloading the whole page, and it does not use <iframe> to make the page xhtml invalid. It also has an admin interface in the Manage section
• Live Calendar – like Wordspew, this plugin can change the calendar without reloading the whole page
• Live Comments Preview
• Fancy Tooltips – true to its name: fancy and good-looking. Besides links, it also works on other tags like <ins>, <del> and <acronym>.
• Online Counter
• Enhanced Post List – much better than the original “Manage Posts” page. When I wrote this (2005.08.16), the author’s website is out of service.
• Paged Comments Editing – same as Enhanced Post List, but for the “Manage Comments” page
• Google Sitemap Generator – easy to use, with a separate configuration page
• Follow URL – I have Spam Karma 2, I do not need nofollow.
• Geo – cannot think of any useful application of this plugin yet I get the co-ordinates with Google Earth (one of the rare occasions I must use m$ windows.

Testing:

• IImage Browser – very easy to add image to posts. I originally used a pop-up hack, but it does not seem to work with the new theme. This may be my way out.
• IImage Gallery – easy to post more than one photo in the same post, requires more settings than IImage Browser
• Gravatars – this is not the official plugin. Apparently, it gives you a configuration page in the Options section. I can’t still get it running with the themes.
• Yahoo/MSN Smileys – easy to set up, but I wonder if there are other choices …
• Recent Comments – with a configuration interface
• Cross-themes Stylesheets
• X-Vaild – check whether the posts and comments are xhtml-valid and automatically correct them, with a configuration page

Plugin Resources:

• Red Alt
• WordPress Plugin Database
• WordPress Plugin Repository

By the way, Alex King’s “WordPress 1.5 Themes Competition” will close in less than 2 weeks’ time (25 March). Clasikue is in this competition.