Posting from flickr messes up my RSS feed
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Hi, any help you can give would be appreciated. My blog is: http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/
I like to post photos from my flickr account to my blog. I usually send the photo from flickr and then copy it into a new post for publishing. The reason I do this is when I post flickr photos I get all these extra words in my posts above and below the photo. So, I delete the words and write my blog post. I have been doing this for many months. Today, however, I checked my RSS feed on Google reader, and was horrified to see that every photo I sent from flickr is in my RSS feed. So people getting my feed will get the photo as a post, then the photo and my post again. Does anyone else have this problem? What can I do about the extra words flickr inserts around my photos when I post from there?
Thanks!
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If what you mean by extra words is:
I delete the first part, and keep everything beginning at <img
example:
‘<img src='”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2752/2158525480_ccfa52e59e_o.gif” width=”300″ height=”292″ alt=”photoname” />‘
Is what I keep and I place directly into my posts. Is that what you mean?
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well that got borked.
The extra words didn’t show in the comment, however I hope this helps.
‘a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/9270648@N02/2156905480/” title=”Photoname by UserName, on Flickr”‘
is the part I delete. It is the first half.
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@disfunctional, use the backtick key which is typically on the same key with ~ (to the left of the #1 key on a North American keyboard).
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By suppressing the link back to flickr, you are in contradiction with the flickr TOS which clearly says that photos posted elsewhere must link to flickr.
I remove the title part of the link and replace it with my own keywords, usually the title of my photo. -
Yes, that’s what I was trying to paste above for the example but as you can see it didn’t work. Maybe you can place it in order to help the user instead and do a much better job.
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I feel a little bad because I think I found the answer to my problem on another thread here. It said to not click “blog this photo” but to click “all sizes” and copy and paste the code there into my write screen. I’m going to mess with it a bit and see if this resolves it. Thanks!
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Yes, that did it! Sorry I can’t thank whoever wrote that suggestion, but from now on I will just directly paste the flickr photo code after hitting “all sizes”. If you can’t stand getting that extra code and lines of text from flickr photos, try that method. You have to link back to flickr to make it work, but it solved my problem.
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This will work. You’ll have multiple options for sizes, and a different code will be provided depending on which you select. It will work great for you in your blog.
Please don’t feel bad, there isn’t anything for you to feel bad about!
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hahaha… I didn’t know there was any other way but this way to get code from flickr. Now I’m curious as to what else flickr can do!
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