Wordpress Plugin for Free Photos from Flickr

Bloggers are always looking for sources for free photos to legally use on their blogs. Of course, Flickr is a great source, but it can be time consuming to leave Wordpress, open Flickr, find photos you're allowed to use on your blog, then search for the specific type of photo you need. After all that is done, you still have to create a link back to the source of the Flickr photo in order to properly attribute it. There are a lot of steps in that process!

Luckily, there is a great Wordpress plug-in called PhotoDropper that can help make this process a lot easier. The PhotoDropper plug-in searches photos with a creative commons license on Flickr and automatically inserts the appropriate attribution text and link once you find and select the photo you want to use in your blog post.

A word of caution about the PhotoDropper plug-in for Wordpress: the plug-in searches all photos with any creative commons license. That means, the search will return results that may not be okay for you to use on commercial sites or that may not allow derivatives. Take a few minutes to review creative commons licenses before you select photos to use on your blog from Flickr, so you're certain to choose only those that you're legally allowed to use.

You can follow the links to download the PhotoDropper plug-in or to learn about 11 more essential Wordpress plug-ins.

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