Customization is an important aspect of any blog. We’ve talked before about the importance of having a custom header image and how you should be tweaking the layout of your blog to best suit your needs, whether it be related to the color scheme or how you decide to arrange your sidebar. Another way that you can go about making your blog your own is to feed it with all of your latest photos. Everyone loves looking at pictures, after all.

Unfortunately for most people, this can be quite a tedious process. You probably already upload a photo or two when it seems appropriate for a particular post, but what about all those pictures you took that don’t exactly fit in with a blog post. Or maybe you just took some fun photos and they don’t warrant a blog post of their own. For times like those, you may want to have the ability to pull photos straight from your Flickr account and have them displayed on your blog as a standalone feature. For that, you can consider something like the flickrRSS plug-in for WordPress.

In a nutshell, this plugin will display photos from your Flickr account automatically, pulling these pictures from the RSS feed. It’ll support user, public, and group photostreams and you can configure your preferences through the options panel. It seems easy enough to use and the pictures can be displayed not unlike the popular 125 button ads that have started sprouting up in the blogosphere. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the flickrRSS plug-in does not allow for random images to be pulled from your Flickr photostream. Instead, it only shows the most recent photos as evidenced by the provided RSS feed. It also does not have support for sets. Even so, this appears to be a viable option for anyone looking to display their most recent photos. See it in action at Eightface.com.