Integrating the Flickr gallery plugin with the Blix Theme
Published by finn July 24th, 2005 in techno-geek, wordpressAs promised, here is a quick tutorial on how to integrate the flickr gallery plugin with the Blix theme. Since my hosting provider, DreamHost, has disabled libcurl calls I used Nick Bouton’s version of the plugin.
Step 1:
I created a generic gallery page in my main wordpress directory named gallery.php
gallery.php source:
<?php
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = '';
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
include(TEMPLATEPATH . "/gallery.php");
?>
Step 2:
Next I created a custom page template for Blix, again named gallery.php
wp-content/themes/Blix/gallery.php source:
<?php
/*
Template Name: gallery
$page='gallery'
*/
?>
<?php get_header($page); ?>
<!-- content ................................. -->
<div id="content">
<?php flickr_show_photos($_GET['album'], $_GET['photo']); ?>
</div> <!-- /content -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Step 3:
I modified the header.php for Blix so that the gallery page would show up as a themed page.
Here is the output from diff:
diff -uNr header.default header.php
--- header.default Mon Jun 27 23:20:09 2005
+++ header.php Tue Jul 19 18:30:46 2005
@@ -14,7 +15,8 @@
<?php wp_head();?>
-<body><div id="container"<?php if (is_page() && !is_page("archives")) echo " class=\"singlecol\""; ?>>
+<body><div id="container"<?php if ( ((preg_match('/gallery/',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) || is_page()) && !is_page("archives") ) echo " class=\"singlecol\""; ?>>
+<!-- banner ................................. -->
<!-- header ................................. -->
<div id="header">
</div></div></body></div></body>
Step 4:
I created a new page for the gallery by going to Write -> Write Page in the dashboard. I selected ‘gallery’ as the page template and used ‘gallery’ as the page slug. I named my page ‘Flickr Galleries’ but you should be able to name it whatever you want.
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