Title: Alternative WordPress Image Uploader Using Flickr
Author: Amit Kumar Singh
Published: <strong>April 1, 2008</strong>
Last modified: August 25, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Alternative WordPress Image Uploader Using Flickr

 By [Amit Kumar Singh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thecancerus/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin was created to for those people who are unsatisfied with image resizing
capabilites of wordpress uploader.
 It uses services from flickr. You can upload
your images to flickr.com and then make your photos public. You can play with your
pictures using services provided by flickr and then using this plugin you can easily
attach them to your blog post.

This release aadded the option for choosing tags or sets to fetch the images. Also
fixed the issue where enabling this plugin, interfered with wordpress 2.5’s jquery.

you can get more information at [akWpUploader article](http://amiworks.co.in/talk/akwpupoader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/).

After you check out this plugin, please provide some rating and leave comments for
improving it.

PLEASE NOTE ! This plugin is still in development and may contain few bugs, please
report any bug that you find !,

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload `akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader` to the `/wp-content/
    plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. That’s it nothing else.
 4. Now you can use it when you create new posts.

## FAQ

  How to use it?

simple just type your flickr ID in the text area and it will fetch the images from
flickr for you. Once images are their just click on the image that you want to attach
to you post as you do normally.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Alternative WordPress Image Uploader Using Flickr” is open source software. The
following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Amit Kumar Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thecancerus/)

[Translate “Alternative WordPress Image Uploader Using Flickr” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/),
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## Changelog

 1. made it compatible with WP2.8
 2. Fixed the issues with WP2.5, where it interfered with jquery loaded by wordpress.
 3. Added the option to fetch images based on tag or photo set.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8**
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[flickr](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/flickr/)
   [gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gallery/)[image uploader](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image-uploader/)
   [post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akwpuploader-alternative-wordpress-image-uploader/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Amit Kumar Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thecancerus/)

## Support

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