If you want to post images from your Flickr account, here’s how:

1. First, make sure you a registered author of the blog with a user ID and password (You can get this by emailing me at dave [dot] gray [at] gmail [dot] com, or you can register as a user and let me know to upgrade your status to author.

2. Go to the Flickr blog setup page here and click “add a blog.”

3) Under “What kind of blog do you have?” choose “WordPress blog.”

4. In the “API endpoint” field, type http://marksandmeaning.com/xmlrpc.php

5. Type your user ID and password in the appropriate fields. On the next screen confirm your details.

6. Click to create a custom template. Choose “500px, on its own line.”

7. Click the “Customize” button.

8. In the customize field, delete the text and paste this html in as a replacement:

<div style="text-align: left; padding-top: 10px;"> <div style="text-align: left; padding-top: 10px;"> <a href="{photo_url}" title="photo sharing"><img src="{photo_src}" style="border: solid 0px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;">[[string:by2:<a href="{photo_url}">{photo_title}</a>:<a href="{uploader_profile}">{uploader_name}</a>]]</span> </div> <p> {description} </p> <p>

9. You’re done! You can now post to this blog from any Flickr photo page using the “blog this” button.