LR2/Blog is my latest export plug-in, allowing you to export your images from Lightroom directly to your blog. Hopefully it will simplify your blogging experience and save you a bit of time.
Like my previous plug-ins, LR2/Blog is donationware. This allows me to donate the time required to develop it. In its first incarnation it’s very simple; the options are limited and it’s only been tested with Wordpress 2.7. LR2/Blog needs your help!
Yes, this is your chance to design your own blog exporter plug-in! This plug-in has been released very early in order to garner the feedback necessary to meet your needs. It will undergo rapid development, but I’m going to wait for your comments so that I can make the plug-in as useful as possible for you (it already does everything that I need personally). Adobe took this approach with Lightroom itself, so I know the community’s up to the challenge!
- What features would you like to see?
- What blogs would you like supported?
The plug-in’s been tested with Wordpress, but it actually uses the the MetaWebLog standard to upload images, so it should work with other blogs too. Please let me know.
I also need help with the branding ‘banner’ along the top of the export dialog. Currently it’s utterly dull. The graphic should be 44 pixels high and no wider than 576 pixels, and it should fade to white on the right hand side. If you’d like to help out here I can pass you a PSD template (courtesy of Jeffrey Friedl) that contains the standard green arrow and some important text). The person offering the winning entry gets a free copy of the plug-in 
Update: Wade Heninger stepped up to the challenge and provided me with a nice masthead banner. Thanks Wade!
Please leave your ideas and feedback in the comments.
Update 10 Feb 2009:
I’ve just released version 1.15, which adds:
- The option of creating a new post directly from the plugin, and have the images embedded within it based on a definable HTML template.
- A nice Masthead graphic by Wade Heninger.
- Files may now be optionally saved to disk during the export.
I am not an html expert, but this is how I upload a 1024 X 680 image from lightroom, display it as a 500 X 333 image in my blog. When clicked it opens as the original 1024 version.
http://www.akphotograph.com/Alaska%20Blog/?p=1274
{title}{caption}
Hello
I am having problems with the file renaming, and description population. Im using Wordpress/Atom.
here is a screenshot of my setup:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/86499/image%20hosting/LR2B-ss1.jpg
and this is the result:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/86499/image%20hosting/LR2B-ss2.jpg.jpg
• filename and description is just the same random letters (im guessing a replacement for no data found)
thanks,
Rhys
Woudl be great it Tumblr support was added. I’m likely using that for a photoblog and doing a direct export from LR would be a huge timesaver.
Hi Tim,
I use dotclear blog engine http://www.dotclear.net/ . xml/rpc interface is Movable Type blog. Can you implement Movable Type blog interface ?
Thank a lot
Stéphane
When I upload a picture to my Google blog with no additional settings it posts the picture as its original size. This is way too big and does not show the complete picture on my blog. When I specify {url[300]} it is able to show the entire picture on my blog, but I can not click on it to make it bigger. What do I need to specify so it shows a thumbnail image on my blog and when users click on it the picture will enlarger?
I’d like to know the same; enlarge with click, and using LR2/blog. Possible?
Thanks /Peter
Hi- Great pluggin- I use it often. Any plans to make an LR3 version in the works? I know that LR3 is just in the beta phase- any workaround to get it to work in there? Thanks!
Tobia
does your artisan page (http://www.timothyarmes.com/en/galleries/artisans/barbier/)
use this Plug-in?
or this plug-in can simply let LR to ‘wrap’ all my photos and upload to wordpress(self-host) to play as a flash slide show like your page?(http://www.timothyarmes.com/en/galleries/artisans/barbier/)
Hi,
Thanks for creating such a useful plug-in.
I’ve got one question: Is it possible to use html comments () in the blogpost template? It’s left out in the generated blogger post.
I’d like to use the (new) feature.
TIA,
Marco
have downloaded and installed LR2blog, set up in export preset, will not uload photos……says plugin working in plugin manager….is making copies to export as with e mail but does not prompt to upload to blogger. I do have a registration #. Where do I go from here to figure out what’s wrong? TY
Hi Timothy,
do you have any timeline for supporting LR3?
Best regards
Volker
Hi,
All my plugins will have LR3 support when its released. Some of them already work on the beta but others don’t due to bugs that I can’t workaround in (in the beta, not in the plugins)
Tim
Quick heads up for anyone else out there that got this error: disabling the SlidePress plugin (in WordPress) fixed the issue.
Random, and quite annoying as I needed that!
Hi Tim,
Would it be possible to export the title and the caption from Lightroom into wordpress?
Thanks for a great plugin!
Andrew
Hi. This is possible using the token fetaures.
Tim
what about support for Facebook? Or is that considered ‘out of scope’ for this plugin?
Tumblr support would be nice!