I am testing on this post the PicApp feature in embedding images for self-hosted WordPress blogs. I did a similar test for WordPress.com-hosted blogs yesterday, and you can view the results of that test at my Working and WordPress-ing blog.
Embedding a PicApp image in a post or a page is very easy. There are two embedding codes supplied. One is for self-hosted WordPress blogs. Another is for WordPress.com-hosted blogs like this one. To copy the code, highlight the whole code applicable to your site, and then paste it on where you want it to show in your post.
The image above is an example of a PicApp image embedded on this post using the codes supplied by PicApp for self-hosted WordPress blogs.
What if you want to resize the image?
To resize the image, you simply change the width and height sizes in the HTML code supplied for the image. Just make sure, you change the width and height in proportion to the original image, otherwise the image gets skewed. The image below is using width=”225″ and height=”297″ from its original size of “450″ and “594″, respectively.
PicApp plugin for self-hosted WordPress sites
I tested the PicApp plugin which when activated supplies an image feed at the bottom of the posting page based on your search criteria. To embed an image, you simply select the image from the image feed. That was supposedly the idea, but it did not work for me. I could not get the images embedded on this post using the plugin. After three unsuccessful attempts, I de-activated and deleted it. If it does not work at all, no point leaving it active or letting it sit on my web server.
Will I be using PicApp images in my blog? When pressed for time or I don’t have the right photographs in my library, why not? After all, the images are free, are they not?
Well, not exactly free like in free to do what you want with them. What is “free” is free access. We still have to “pay” for them, I suppose, by way of the traffic redirected to PicApp’s where advertisements are displayed.
To me, that is a very small price to pay, especially in these days of sharing and bookmarking.
Updated 20 October 2009, 10:30pm: I mentioned above that I was having problem with the PicApp plugin. I revisited this post, but used another experimental site. I’m not sure if during the last few days, PicApp made some enhancements in the plugin, but in our other experimental site, the plugin is working fine.
See our demo.
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