Flickr Widget works for SmugMug March 8, 2009
Posted by Jim McDonald in Photography, WordPress.Tags: SmugMug, WordPress
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After a bit of searching I ran across a post that described how the author had written a Perl script to convert a SmugMug feed into a Flickr style feed so that the Flick Widget could be used with a SmugMug account.
Fortunately one of the comments for that post mentioned that the SmugMug RSS feeds will work with the installed Flickr widgets.
After a couple of tries in picking the correct RSS feed from my SmugMug home page I was successful in adding a SmugMug feed to my sidebar.
I contacted support at SmugMug with the information so that it can be included in their on-line help.
The Steps (updated: 3/8/09 based on a comment from Mr. Rogriquez. Thank you.)
- Added the Flickr widget to my sidebar.
- From my SmugMug “home” page, clicked on “Available Feeds” at the bottom of the page to display the feed links.
- Copied the link to one of the RSS feeds into the clipboard.
- Went back to the admin interface and started to set the options on the widget and pasted the link into the RSS Link field in the widget, set the title, set the no. of items to show and saved the settings.
Excellent. I had no idea this could be done. I will give it a shot, since I have a smugmug pro account.
what did you have to do?
Very simple.
1. Added the Flickr widget to my sidebar
2. From my SmugMug “home” page, clicked on “Available Feeds” at the bottom of the page to display the feed links.
3. Copied the link to one of the RSS feeds into the clipboard.
4. Went back to the admin interface and started to set the options on the widget and pasted the link into the RSS Link field in the widget, set the title, set the no. of items to show and saved the settings.
I was pleasantly surprised it worked.
I wish they had a random feed.
Yes. It looks like that it has been requested before. Generating at least a psuedo random feed based on a list of galleries might be a good little Google App Engine application. If one provided a list of galleries the app could use the SmugMug API to select a set of pictures from the galleries and then expose them in a feed changing the set of pictures it selects on every request. This might make a fun little project. I’ll let you know if I get it working.