Flickr Plugin Weirdness
I am an increasingly avid flickr user and have a growing collection of photos on my flickr account. It seems daft to upload photos twice all the time so I tried the flickr plugin for serendipity (my bloggling platform) but I couldn’t get my account to connect correctly. In the box labelled “flickr username” I added my flickr username, “lornajane”, which appears in my photos URL. However the plugin seemed to think my photos should then be at a URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64718621@N00/
which they obviously weren’t. I played around with this for a while, also trying my yahoo user id and getting nowhere.
Eventually I tried another flickr plugin on another site and got identical behaviour – at which point I logged a support ticket with Flickr to ask what I was doing wrong. It turns out that “username” in this case means this label here:
Never noticed that before, and its certainly not how I refer to myself, so I’m a bit confused – but hey my plugin is working! I hope this helps someone (probably me, next time I try to plug flickr in to something else) confused by flickr seeming to think you have the wrong username!
If I’m not mistaken, you can configure that in the settings of your flickr account, can’t you?
The wordpress plugin I use was more verbose, it told me to go to this url: http://idgettr.com/ to find out the id it wanted.
Ivo: you are quite right, the problem is that “lornajane” is already taken as a screen name (so why can I have it in my URL? Strange) so I had to choose something else and I never thought about it again!