In setting up the Photography By Kevin section, I wanted to display random pictures from my photography gallery I had hosted over @ zenfolio. Why Zenfolio? After the previous design of a photogallery website and using a flash photo album, I got tired of maintaining it through PHP. Zenfolio seems to fit the need with standard template layout and easy maintenance. 

Instead of spending time writing a PHP plugin, the first came to mind was to try to look for a plugin someone had done. Why reinvent the wheel when someone already did that?

Vibol Hou had used a flickr RSS plugin and modified for zenfolio need. While is perfect what I was looking. 

Plugin Homepage: (HERE)
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You can see an example of it being used in the Photography By Kevin page (tab above). 

To use, you can simply download the plugin and place that in the plugins directory. In the Plugin control, you set how many image(s) you will be pulling per tag call. Afterward, a simple tag added to your post, page, or template will pull the photo from the gallery in. 

Using the tag 

<?php get_ZenfolioRSS(); ?>

Will take care of it. 

If you want to spice it up a bit, what you could do is set in the plugin setting to only pull one image. With that, you can call the tag “x” number of times. Each time it will call on random image. This will give you the flexibility to wrap a table loop around it or add spacer between each image. 

Pretty neat stuff. Try it out and let’s hear how you use it!