I decided earlier on that I wanted to have a blog running Habari; it is one thing to write nice things about it and quite another to use it in anger and live with it over time. I mentioned the flickr integration on twitter and more details were asked for so that that is the purpose of this post.

I had started a blog to write about photo techniques (what few I have) but never did much with so this seemed well placed to convert to Habari. I deleted the WordPress files, added Habari and it is up and running.

I haven’t done much to it yet. Over time I will tinker and learn. You can find it here: http://www.eloquium.co.uk

Habari comes with some plugins bundled, two of which I used on the new blog. One is a WordPress database importer which seemed to work well, the other a flickr gallery. I have taken a screencast of the gallery and included it below.

You should note that I haven’t used WordPress to integrate with Flickr so I don’t know what the plugins are like. If you have used them then please drop the name of the plugin and any comparisons you would like to make with the video.

If you haven’t tried Habari, whatever the reason, you should also have a look at my last post where I asked for people’s reasons why they haven’t given Habari a try.