How to make a photoblog using Wordpress

Posted on December 4th, 2006.

Combining photo blog with the most popular blog engine is a brilliant idea. Maybe you are already tired of the ads in your free fotopages website and the lousy interface . Yet another photo blog (Yapb) allows you to customize your photo blog as much as you can customize your Wordpress. It is a plug-in for Wordpress, which can be installed easily on your Wordpress.

Besides, it offers on the fly thumbnail generation. You can use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them and the thumbnail generation is controlled from the template. There is no restriction to use any Wordpress theme. What you need to do is to insert some snippets to your theme files and you’re done.

But the concept behind this plug-in is one photo, one post. If you want to put more pictures in a single post, you must do it manually. For me, this is not a bad concept. It increases the pages of your photoblog if you’ve lots of picture. And the most important thing, search engines love site with many pages.

Because a picture tells thousand stories, you don’t need to write much about that photo. Two or three lines are enough. As a result, your blog is lack of content. But don’t worry. Take a look at this post on how to optimize your images so that search engines love your photoblog.

Related links:
YAPB official site
Site using Yapb

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