February 23, 2008

This is a test of my new Photo Dropper toy.


Creative Commons License photo credit: Claudia Snell

Well, there’s been a lot of talk on the interwebs about this “Photo Dropper” plug-in for WordPress so I thought I’d give it a whirl.

Basically, it’s a tool that will search Flickr for images that are licensed for use under Creative Commons.

After I installed Photo Dropper a search box appeared under my edit window in WordPress allowing me to search for usable photos and then select small, medium or large. It also has a link to the original post on Flickr so you can see the photo at full size rather than the thumbnails that appear after search.
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