Comments on: The Fastest Way to Add Awesome Photos to Your Blog: Photo Dropper

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:21:24 +0000

This is a great plugin – thanks for developing it.
2 suggestions that would make it more useful for me:-
- Option to *not* exit after a picture is picked, but to allow further pictures to be picked. I often want to choose several pictures using the same keywords. I currently have to go back into Photo Dropper each time, re-enter the keywords, re-page to where I was.
- Option to download the picture and display from the local copy. In case the original is moved/deleted etc. This would mean my post would not end up with broken images in the future.
Thanks!

By: KathyB

KathyB — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:12:14 +0000

I’ve just installed Photo Dropper and am wondering where I find the options so as to check the box for commercial intent.

By: Jens Matheuszik

Jens Matheuszik — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:38:22 +0000

I’ve just tried Photo Dropper but it won’t work. After I entered a keyword and started the search this happened:

1) Firefox (3.0.12): Nothing – I see only the scrolling “wheel” and nothing happens.

2) Safari (4.0.2): For some seconds I see the scrolling “wheel” and some moments later the text “Unexpected error occured while performing an AJAX request” can be read.

Do you have any clues?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:17:46 +0000

Follow-up even though my first is waiting moderation:

I fixed our issue. Not PD issue, but hopefully this will help others.

As for the resolution with PhotoDropper…

After some debugging, I could see at the start of flickr-js.php the browser was getting following line (JS debugging via MS’s developer tools or firebug) Indicating a ; was expected.
failed to copy filevar wppd_dir = …(as written)

For the life of me I could not find this error any where on the internet.
I tried commenting outing require_once and then nothing worked. (As it was the only thing preceeding the “var wppd” stuff.)

Eventually I used wordpress-flickr-manager (which was having the same issues) but it has an option for displaying errors, which indicated a piece of code in another php file was generating “failed to copy file” text string, thus causing the problem? So I went looking and found the code snipit, and removed the delinquent php.

Long and the short, a random .php was causing a script error and thus the flickr-js.php never loaded. Not sure how wp determines the order, but photodropper kept losing.

Hope this helps,

Sam

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:52:30 +0000

I cannot get pd to work.

Symptoms as reported above:
1. Clicking Search button on editor simply saves post
2. New pop-up clicking Search returns nothing

I’ve unistalled all plugins except LDAP, wp-mail-smtp, and Askimet.

WPMu 2.7 (I know not supported, but same issues above as non-mu)

Tested with Firefox and IE 7 & 8.

I think cURL is running.

I’ve also tried Flickr Manager. It sort of works? It downloads a few Public Images by default, but when you click Search, it brings up the WP add image screen. (Guessing that it shows any images means cURL is working?)

Any ideas…Really want this to work for our school’s new blogging platform.

Thanks

By: Dave T

Dave T — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:39:06 +0000

That you for this great plugin. As a beginner it works great. I do have one question. Do you have or know of anyone else who has such a plugin to use with Squidoo? It would make the world so much easier if I could add pics to my Lens and have them come out as great as your do with WP
Thank you again’

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:22:36 +0000

Photodropper is a great innovation. Does the grab and host locally function work yet? If not, some of you might want to try our SEO Images Wordpress plugin which allow you to easily upload and caption your photos for Google in a single go. I use SEO Images for post like this one about what about I love about Vienna: Snow in Vienna. Still searching for the appropriately licensed images for our clients' sites is painful. We will definitely be giving Photodropper a whirl as well.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:23:15 +0000

Please note that photos found on Flickr must link back to the Flickr page on which they are found.

By: Kirsten Mason

Kirsten Mason — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:54:58 +0000

Very nice! Thanks very much.

By: Les

Les — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:14:03 +0000

Okay I’ve figured it out. Using Plugin Commander the Site Admin needs to change the settings BEFORE activating the plugin on all blogs. After that, provided the User Control is enabled individual bloggers can change the settings.

Sorry to trouble you!