We’ve just released version 2.2.3 of the Online Photo Filer into the wild. The most obvious change is a new way to share your photos. You can now blog your photos to a suitably equipped blog*

User’s of Godaddy’s Quick Blogcast ( check your account you may have one free just waiting to be set up) can already quickly add OPF images quickly to their blog posts many of you use other blog applications or may just want to quickly post an image without logging into their Blogcast to do so.

Blogging your first picture.

This feature is only available when logged in from the filmstrip view and can be set in motion by clicking on “Blog Photo”

This takes you to our Add a blog screen where you will add your blog’s URL. E.g blog.onlinephotofiler.com and then the username and password you use to access the blog.

Quick Blogcast owners will have to setup and enable the “remote blogging” feature prior to it being able to accept posts from Online Photo Filer or indeed any other service. Setup details are located here.

Other services may require you to turn this feature on but in most cases all you will need to do is type in these few details. We’ll verify that we can use the information and all being well you are now on the Blog This Photo screen.

You can choose which blog to post to, which categories to place the post in plus you have a choice of three layouts to post in. That’s really it , fill out the details, click Blog This Photo and the go search

What If I have more than one blog?

Click on settings, blog settings, and then add blog.

What If I share a private Picture?

I suggest that you place any photograph you want to share in a Public gallery. You can post photos from galleries that you have marked as Private or Password Protected. However, when people click a Password Protected photo displayed on your blog, they’ll not be able to access it without knowing the password. If you made the gallery Private, no one apart from the OPF owner can click the image and view it; all other visitors instead see an error.

Additionally, if you blog a picture stored in Public gallery and later change the gallery to Private or Password Protect it, you must manually remove the image from your blog, since the blog software has no way of knowing that you’ve changed the gallery status.

Detailed instructions on how to set up and use the blog photo can be located here.

If there are any questions on this, or other feature, feel free to post to the blog or via the feedback button within your Online Photo Filer.

* Blog that supports Metaweblog.api with RSD Enabled. ( Quick Blogcast, Wordpress.com , Wordpress (installed) and many more.