I took my responsibility running the Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf (PAD) deaf clubhouse website, powered with WordPress (WP), along with few plug-ins helps to beef up the cool features such as event calendar and gallery.
Last October 2007, I installed FAlbum, a WP plugin for Flickr photo to feed Flickr photos directly into PAD website to display the photos.
Until last week, I discovered 'Slickr Gallery', the most slick AJAX Flickr plugin for WP, and I began experimenting with this in PAD website just for fun. Here it is - the plugin looks so incredible and web-rich, make you feel more mood and exictment level to navigate the photos!
I have notice the differences between WP Flickr plugin: FAlbum and Slickr, such as advantages and disadvantages:
- Slickr does not provide specific URI address for a photo set page and individual photo page. FAlbum does.
- FAlbum supports EXIF data, tags, Flickr notes, download photo sizes what Slickr does not have.
- Slickr is currently active in development; FAlbum is somewhat slow in development
- FAlbum have several AJAX errors, and somewhat poor style pages
- Slickr is easy to install and configure in WP to administrate, FAlbum is somewhat little complicated
- FAlbum needs some with web coding knowledge to modify and fix in back-end
Well, I decide to keep both WP Flickr plugins, to separate the old version and web-rich version in front-end PAD website for user-friendly who wants to download the photos in old version page, and savvy-user enjoy their time to surf web-rich version.
