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In keeping with my desire to have an easy-to-maintain blog, I set about exploring photo plugins. My brief is the following:

• I want to be able to add either a single photo or a set of photos (gallery) to a post or page
• I want the photos to be either uploaded to the webserver or included from flickr
• I want to be able to use lightbox to display the picture(s)
• Not too much hacking of code, this has to be clean

Not a lot to ask, you may think. I came close, but by using two plugins, one for my pictures, another for flickr. However, to avoid conflicts, it ran with two variations of lightbox, one of them thickbox, and this didn’t appeal to me. Each plugin uses it’s own scripts for the lightbox, and they won’t play ball with each other. This will change in the future, plugin authors are being encouraged to check for existing code before introducing their own. But for now I gave up and settled for one plugin; flickr tag which gives me most of the functionality I need. I compromised on not uploading pictures to my server, using flickr for everything instead. There is a bit of syntax to master, but it is worth it. So I can include a single picture:

Or I can insert a set, based on my flickr tags:

It works, but is is frustrating that I didn’t achieve my goals. If anyone knows of a better solution, I am keen to hear about it.