Flickr Slideshow

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  vivienmkay · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 1:16 pm

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  Is it possible to embed a flickr slideshow on wordpress.com? if it is I would love to know how to.
  I tried to copy the link of my flickr set and put it to a page but no slideshow appeared,only the link.

  here’s the site i need help
  vivienmkay.wordpress.com

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 15, 2017 at 5:57 am

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  Hi there, do you still need help with this issue? It was possible to embed a flickr slideshow a few years ago, but then something changed on flickr’s end and it no longer worked here on WordPressdotcom. You can see all the currently available flickr integration here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=flickr

  You can find all the support documentation for WordPressdotcom at https://en.support.wordpress.com/ and suggestions for finding self-help solutions at https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/help-with-wordpress-com/

  Here are some other resources that you might find helpful:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-tutorials
  https://learn.wordpress.com/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/blogging-fundamentals/

  Let us know if you need more help.

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  sfoswald · Member · Apr 16, 2017 at 10:45 pm

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  I am trying to get this to work also. I found the slideshow embed code for a flickr group I have. When entering the code into the HTML of a page the code merely resolves to a link. Does anyone know of a way to get a slideshow to work?

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  sfoswald · Member · Apr 16, 2017 at 10:59 pm

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  By the way adding the slideshow URL https://www.flickr.com//groups/fincavarsovia/pool/show/ gets me a little further. It reserves a space in the post but no images show. The page I am trying to apply this to is https://fincavarsovia.com/galeria/.

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 11:27 am

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  Hello @sfoswald To clarify, the flickr slideshow embed does not work on WordPressdotcom. The only current flickr integration available is listed in the support guide I linked to.

  You can embed a single photo https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/flickr-photos/

  You can embed a video https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/flickr-video/

  You can use a widget to display certain photos from flickr https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/flickr-widget/

  Other than that, there is no other flickr integration at this time.

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 11:35 am

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  You know what, I’m happily going to eat my words. It does seem like slideshows from sets works intermittently, but I could not get your group slideshow to display using the OEMBED method.

  Let me tag this for Staff and let’s see what they say.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 17, 2017 at 1:14 pm

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  Hi there,

  We don’t support embedding Flickr slideshows at this time, no. But I’ll add a request that we add support for this to our feature request list.

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  justjennifer · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 1:47 pm

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  @kokkieh – thanks for confirming my original answer; that’s what I thought. In spite of that I did get a flickr set slideshow to “work” via oembed.

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  sfoswald · Member · Apr 17, 2017 at 1:55 pm

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  Thank you @kokkieh, it’ll give me some hope for the future.

  @justjennifer, oembed is for wordpress org and not applicable here.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Apr 17, 2017 at 2:11 pm

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  @justjennifer

  It’s possible if Flickr have oEmbed support for slideshows on their end we might be able to embed it on this end if all the circumstances are perfect. The same way gigya embeds sometimes work even though we don’t officially support it.

  @sfoswald

  All embeds on WordPress.com make use of the oEmbed format. In fact, we don’t support embedding for a service unless they use oEmbed:

  https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oembed-provider-api/