I've just installed an MT plugin that promises to be very useful... we shall see!

It's called FlickrPhotos and promises to enable me to display pictures from flickr through movable type, I shall be fiddling with this to see what it does in this post, and going back to the previous I imagine...

so according to the docs this should display 10 images from me:

this should display some photos from the "House" set:

now lets see what happens...

Ok partly I was being a mong, but partly it's a bit odd in this particular installation, so you need to use this (look at the source, I can't be bothered to de-html it!)

And this is what I actually wanted to be able to do (hopefully):

House

So anybody who wants to do the same, I'm having trouble (and can't be bothered to work it out now!) with the MTFlickrPhotoLink tag in that it always produces the html img tag with width="" height="" hence the dotted lines above. So I had to use the slightly more convoluted approach above.

Also I initially was being a mong in that these are MT parsed tags, and so they're only picked up from within Templates, not within entries themselves, however, handily there is a nice little plugin: process tags which when set up right will process the tags of whatever MT Content you ask for, so thankyou Adam!

So current issues appear to be:

1) the MTFlickrPhotoLink tag munges the sizes.
2) using "MTFlickrPhotos set" means that the MTFlickrPhotoURL tag doesn't include the username in the URL, so the page can't be found.

but other than that it seems good! So with fiddling i can use it :o)

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