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I just finished spending a few hours messing with this flickr junk which everyone seems to put on their sites (which means I’m not cool unless I have it too!). It wouldn’t have been so bad but at first I didn’t even know that you could create a flickr badge – then it took me even longer to figure out where on flickr’s site I could go to get info on making one

Anyways, right now I’m trying out this flickrRSS plugin which isn’t bad, but honestly doesn’t do anything spectacular, and it’s not as feature rich as using a flickr badge (though it doesn’t put a requirement of JavaScript on the client which is nice). I would prefer to use the flickr badge for now, but the default WordPress theme I’m using is horribly written (though I will say it looks rather nice – but the HTML/CSS coding causes all sorts of problems when you try to add to it) to be honest and was pissing me off as I was trying to display images as floated block elements, though this caused the rest of the sidenav to flow as if the entire image div was a floated inline block. Of course clearing all floats doesn’t work since the entire sidenav is floated itself (argh!).

So, I figure I might have my way with flickr and WordPress on my own and write my own (and first!) plugin. First I’ll see what code gets spat out from the flickr badge, and see if perhaps I can code something in PHP to emulate it so that I can in the end have a configurable module that allows all the flickr badge features, but no JavaScript or other client-side driven scripts required. We’ll see what I end up with.