How to enable 'Blog This' in Flickr to CS

I can see there being a few questions on how to do this, so I'll do this now to save people asking. Firstly, what am I talking about?  When browsing photos on Flickr, most photos have an option to 'blog this'.  If you have previously set up your blog in Flickr, it will compose a post for you and post it to your blog, all without actually loading up your Community Server site. It’s really simple to do and takes only two minutes to set up, so here we go:

  1. Log into Flickr, or sign up if you don’t have an account. It’s free.
  2. Click on your username at the top right of the page.
  3. Under the ‘Blogging’ section, click ‘Your blogs’.
  4. Click ‘Set up your blog’.
  5. Under ‘What kind of weblog do you have?’, select ‘MetaWeblogAPI Enabled Blog’.
  6. Then enter the following values:
        Username: Your Community Server username.
        Password: Your Community Server password.
  7. The next page should confirm your settings, along with the URL and Label. You do not have to change these, they should be correct already, so choose if you wish Flickr to store your password and click ‘All Done’.

And there you have it, that’s all there is to it. Now when you click ‘Blog this’ on an image, it should ask you to choose your blog and compose your post. Next in this series of helpful hints, I will talk about templates and how to get some pretty cool effects with the resulting blog post. But for now, that’s it!

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