Testing New Plug In

**Update 2:** Looks like it’s all working now.

**Update:**  It seems like the pictures aren’t really loading well from their server.  Maybe it’s just me.  If you would, please leave me a comment and let me know if they’re loading for you.  Thanks!

This morning, I got an email from PicApp announcing their new WP plug in.  Since I love pictures and I love WP plug ins, and I really love using pictures in my blog posts, I was thrilled to play along. I downloaded and installed the plug in, which as with all WP plug ins, was super easy.  After I activated it, I started this post.

Directly below the post text box is another box called picapp images.  You have the option to sign in or register (which is optional) and then there’s a search bar.  Below the search bar are a lot of images already loaded.  All of these images are free to use in your posts. I searched for “wordpress” and got 0 results.  Then I searched for “Ocala” and got 12 results. the first four of the same woman on a horse, obviously in some kind of horse show.  No surprise there.  But then I saw this one:

Those are soldiers in an elementary school in Abu Ghraib, handing out school supplies and candy that were donated by people in Las Vegas, NV and Ocala, FL.  Cool.

Then I searched for “Christmas Angel” and hit pay dirt.  Lots of images there!  Like this one:

Not really my idea of a Christmas Angel, but cute.

All in all, I think this is a great idea.  I did have a couple of times that the picapp server wasn’t responding, which is a little annoying, but I can live with it.

Thanks PicApp – cool stuff.

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