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After months and months of trying, off and on, to get a photo gallery working (and integrated) on the site, it was finally done with a simply plug-and-play WordPress plug-in called FAlbum.

You can see it in action in my photos section. Put simply, the way it works is that it pulls photos from your Flickr account. The benefits of pulling photos off of Flickr (instead of storing them locally) are multifold. Your own server doesn’t get weighted down with tons of photos being uploaded (useful if you’re trying to minimize bandwidth consumption). You are able to have both a gallery on your site, and be able to participate in the other features that Flickr includes. And, for people like myself who occasionally have site problems (*cough* because you don’t know what you’re doing), it’s a way to safeguard your files from accidental deletion.

And so on. So give it a go and see how you like it!