edit Enabling "Photo Dropper" On Your WordPress Blog

Photo Dropper allows you to insert into your Post Creative Commons Licensed images from the Flickr photo sharing site. By activating this plugin you agree to be fully responsible for adhering to Creative Commons licenses for all photos you post to your blog.

Select "Plugins" in the top menu in the administrative area (on right side).

Locate "Photo Dropper" in the list of plugins, and click "Activate"

Once the plugin is active, you will get the following menu beneath the Tag and Category menus when you Write Post/Page

You can perform a search of Flickr photos by keyword. The resulting menu will look like this:

You can browse through images, and select which you'd like to insert into your post. Clicking on [S] will insert a small version of the image; [M] will place a medium; and [L] will place a large. Clicking on the arrow icon will take to the image's Flickr page.

Images will be placed into Posts along with a Creative Commons photo credit for the owner.

You can change settings for this plugin (how many images display after a search, search results limited to photos that can be used commercially, photos sorted by "most interesting," as well as code to wrap around photo inserts) Photo Dropper by clicking on Settings>Photo Dropper.

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