I renamed it, cause frankly BlogCCSearch was nonsense. Now it’s called CCIS. Creative Commons Image Search. It even has an incredibly complex logo - see above.

I fadoodled it around a bit, and added the ability to wrap a div around the embed code so that you can float your images to the left and right of blog posts. It works nicely for me, but make sure you preview your posts to make sure that you’re not arsing something up in the process.

Any feedback, please leave a comment.

[CCIS] Creative Commons Image Search.

Wordpress 2.5
I upgraded the site to run wordpress 2.5. I hate slide animations, when I click something it should happen instantly. I don’t enjoy watching something slide/fade or whatever else into view. Hope they include an option to disable that jazz. (It’s in very few places. But it irks me.) The new image upload I’m not sure about either.

Wikicraic
Wikicraic is dead at the moment, I think wikipedia updated their latest updates page, breaking the screen scraper altogether. Will have a look at it sometime soon. For now, I’ve removed it from the left.

Submit a link
The graphic on the left (hint: It says ’submit a link’ on it) takes you to a nice form for submitting links to Jazz Biscuit.

Damien Mulley made a post yesterday asking for a wordpress (a really good blogging platform - it powers Jazz Biscuit too) plugin that would allow him to find creative commons licensed images and upload them to his blog.

After WikiCraic, I thought why not? So after a few hours yesterday I had BlogCCSearch. (The entertaining names part of my brain takes Sunday off.)

It uses the flickr api to do a search for photos, but only returns those licensed with the attribution licence type. [ More info on flickr & creative commons licences. ]

Once it returns the little thumbnails of the search results, you can click on an image and it’ll provide you with embed code for sticking the image on your blog and also a preview so you can see what the image you chose will look like at the size you picked.

It’s written in PHP so I was able to use the fantastic phpFlickr, a php class that handles all the XML parsing and communication with the actual API.

It’s hacky and it was literally thrown together, but so what. It’s fun!