Title: Flickr Fallback Thumbnail
Author: kamiel79
Published: <strong>November 29, 2014</strong>
Last modified: November 29, 2014

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# Flickr Fallback Thumbnail

 By [kamiel79](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kamiel79/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/flickr-fallback-thumbnail.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/)

## Description

Adding explicit thumbnails (featured images) to your content takes time. Even if
you don’t add your own photography, you’d still need to go to search.creativecommons.
org or so. This plugin hooks into the thumbnail URL and changes this with an image
from the Flickr API, based on the tags in your post. If Flickr couldn’t find anything,
it will return an empty string. I have achieved good results, with posts that all
of a sudden had a rather adequate thumbnail.

[Flickr images might have licensing issues, so I recommend to use this plugin only
on personal sites]

## Installation

 1. Unzip the plugin in your plugin directory.
 2. Activate the plugin in WordPress.
 3. Edit the file flickr-fallback-thumbnails.php. Look for the line

    ```
    var $api_key = "your_api_key"
    ```

and fill in your API-key. Learn more here: [Flickr API](https://www.flickr.com/services/developer/api/).

## FAQ

None for the moment.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Flickr Fallback Thumbnail” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ kamiel79 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kamiel79/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/),
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## Changelog

#### November 29, 2014

 * First release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.01**
 * Tags
 * [featured image](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/featured-image/)[flickr](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/flickr/)
   [generate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/generate/)[thumbnail](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/thumbnail/)
   [wordpress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress-org/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/flickr-fallback-thumbnail/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ kamiel79 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kamiel79/)

## Support

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