The State of WordPress and Flickr

I’m trying to find a solution to a problem. Essentially, this is it:

I want to be able to post a picture to Flickr and have it automatically slurped up into a new blog post.

I did this once on Hollowedout.com when JiSun and I went to Vegas to get married. Every 15 minutes that blog would fire a cron that would check for new entries on my Flickr RSS feed and create new blog posts. It was a really easy way to photo-doc our trip.

The options right now are pretty pathetic:

• After uploading to Flickr, I go to the photo page (on Flickr) and click ‘Blog This’ and then I edit a template and it shows up here.
• I use the FlickrRSS plugin, which basically just shows the last X number of pictures in a sidebar widget or on its own page.
• A whole host of manual WordPress Write Post-based plugins.

The general assumption seems to be that I’ll either want to show a host of photos, or someone else’s photos, or that I really really want to go through all these steps just to get a picture on my site.

(There is a hidden option, which is to use the iPhone WordPress app to post pictures from my phone, which is what I really want, but for whatever reason the app freezes as it’s trying to access my site – I’ve got XML-RPC support turned on, and it confirms my creds, it just hangs after that.)

So now I’m faced with the very real possibility that I might have to freakin’ write my own WordPress plugin. Well, that’s a project for a rainy weekend.