How To Use Slickr Flickr Admin Settings

How to Set Up The Plugin Defaults

If you don’t want to specify all the settings for every slideshow or gallery you can set up some defaults as follows:

Go to the “Settings” section, and choose “Slickr Flickr”
Enter your Flickr Id (the id of the form 12345678@N00)
Fetch and save your Flickr API Key (required if you want to fetch more than 20 photos)
Enter a Slickr Flickr Pro License Key (required if you want to use bonus features such as fetching more than 50 photos)
You can also change the default settings for
- the number of photos to show
- the type of display – gallery, slideshow or gallery/slideshow combo
- whether photos captions are displayed
- what the delay in seconds is before the slideshow moves on to the next slide
- what LightBox you want to use for the gallery

How to Find Your Flickr ID

You can find you Flickr ID as follows:

Log in to Flickr account at http://flickr.com
Click the You link to your photostream
Copy the URL in the address bar of your browser
Go To idgettr.com
Paste into the Photstream Address and click Find
Copy the ID that appears below omitting the ID: bit
Paste your Flickr Id in the Slickr Flickr Admin settings
Only if the account is a group and not a user, set the type to Group
Click Save Changes

Updated by Russell on December 19, 2010.

Tagged as: flickr tutorial

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Russell January 11, 2012 at 12:15 pm: This typically means that either you have a typo in the slickr-flickr command or your photos are not yet publicly available.

The Flickr Feed in the message is a link, what happens when your click the link? What slickr-flickr command are you using?
Melanie January 10, 2012 at 10:28 pm: Hi,
I’ve typed in everything correctly on the Admin page, but still get this error: Please verify your settings, clear your RSS cache on the Slickr Flickr Admin page and check your Flickr feed.

Do you know what’s wrong? Thanks!
My id: 66722903@N02
version: 1.37
Pepouzze September 26, 2011 at 7:51 am: Dear Liz,

Many thanks for your help, somehow the Save button was not visible the first time I installed your plugin.

Regards
Liz September 25, 2011 at 10:00 pm: Here is a video answer to your question – Where is the save button.

http://youtu.be/0TPr5YYL1LQ

Liz
Pepouzze September 25, 2011 at 8:57 pm: Where is the save button in the option panel?
Web Hosting September 19, 2011 at 8:45 pm: I want to enter my Flickr ID on the Slickr Flickr settings page but unfortunately I don’t see any save button and therefore my Flickr ID or any other settings I change don’t get saved… What is the problem here?
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Russell August 13, 2011 at 11:41 pm: Hi Maury

The most likely problem is that you have the wrong type of quotes (or mismatched quotes) around the word shop.

Try deleting the quotes and retyping them again

Regards

Russell
Maury Loomis August 13, 2011 at 6:55 pm: I have tagged some photos with the tag “shop”.

But the all the images keep appearing, not just those tagged with shop?

I used this tag:

slickr-flickr tag=”shop”

What am I doing wrong? I just want the images with tag shop!

Thanks!
Russell June 28, 2011 at 3:29 am: Ilona,

Please upgrade to Slickr Flickr 1.29 – I think this might improve handling of descriptions
Ilona Sturm June 28, 2011 at 2:45 am: Hi Russel, below is one slickr-flickr command I’ve been using for one of the sets. I reverted back to taking out the ascending etc. because I thought that’s what killed the descriptions. My flickr id is: 6165659 and my url is: http://www.IlonaSturm.com. While I have your attention, though I love slickr-flickr, I simply can’t figure out how the heck to create the ‘parent’ groups. I want to create sub-categories for the types of art that I do. Also, I’m unclear whether in my flickr descriptions I can include a text PLUS the 01., 02. etc. Also, for the tag, do I include slickr-flickr PLUS my ordinary flickr subject tags. I want a pretty straight-forward static art gallery type site. Thanks so much and how can I continue to learn how to improve my site on my own? Where does the code exist to bring my sidebar items – Drawings etc. over to the left? How can I make the ‘child’ sub-categories smaller with scroll-over changes? I’m new to WP so excuse me if these questions are not your domain. Thanks a gazillion for slickr-flickr!!!!

[slickr-flickr type="galleria" search="sets" autoplay="off" set="72157626507816895 "]
Russell June 28, 2011 at 1:31 am: Hi Ilona, which URL are you referring to, what is your Flickr ID and what slickr-flickr command are you using?
Ilona Sturm June 28, 2011 at 12:34 am: Hi. I’m working with trying to get my images in the proper order through the flickr ‘sets’ and just when I think I figured it out, it seems to have wiped out all my ‘descriptions’ which is important to understand the artwork. They’re still there within the flickr site. Any idea why they’re not showing up on the website? Thanks!
Steph May 31, 2011 at 4:25 pm: Hi Russell

Thanks and yes that’s correct. The problem tag is “cardcompetition”, but the interesting thing is that it works for you, so maybe the rendering problem is theme-related. I’d have guessed that the issue was the number of items being returned for that tag, except for the fact that setting the items parameter makes no difference. Perhaps it’ll become clearer with a bit more experimentation.

Steph
Russell May 31, 2011 at 4:02 pm: Hi Steph,

Glad it is working now.

If I understand you correctly, the problem only occurred when you were using a specific tag? Is that correct? Which tag was it?
Steph May 31, 2011 at 3:56 pm: Hi Russell

Thanks very much again. The closing quote on the id tag did look wrong, so I retyped the whole shortcode, and the page still wouldn’t render. So then I experimented with different tags, and I found that the problem only occurs with one particular tag, regardless of whether or not the number of items is restricted. So the cause of the problem is still mysterious, but most importantly, I can now display some images! Your help was greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Steph
Russell May 31, 2011 at 3:09 pm: Sorry Steph, I missed that.

With group=”y” it works fine for me:

slickr-flickr tag=”cardcompetition” type=”gallery” id=”1635386@N23″ group=”y”

Are you sure there was not a missing quote or a left/opening quote rather than a standard double or anything like that?

If nothing at all is displayed it is typically a typo and WordPress is unable to parse the shortcode correctly.

It looks to me that the closing quote at the end of the id field is of the wrong type
Steph May 31, 2011 at 2:58 pm: Hi Russell

Thanks, however as I mentioned, when I add group = “y” my page won’t display at all.

If I edit the URL and look at it directly then there is a feed: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&&group_id=1635386@N23&tags=cardcompetition&per_page=18

But if I use the following shortcode, the page won’t render. Does it work for you?

slickr-flickr tag=”cardcompetition” type=”gallery” id=”1635386@N23″ group=”y”

Steph
Russell May 31, 2011 at 2:38 pm: Hi Steph,

Add the parameter group=”y” for a group account.
Steph May 31, 2011 at 12:35 am: Hi Russell,

When I try to override my default Flickr ID (which is for a user account) with another ID (for a group account) by setting the id attribute inside the shortcode, then I get this error:

Error fetching Flickr photos: A feed could not be found at http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&&id=1635386@N23&tags=cardcompetition&per_page=18

But if I set that same group ID as my default ID in Settings, then I can display the feed, so is it fair to assume this can’t be a permissions issue? I am sure that the group is public.

Incidentally if I set the group attribute with the value ‘y’ inside the shortcode, then the page won’t display at all. It seems to create some sort of markup syntax error.

In case it’s relevant I’m using version 1.28.

Thanks for your time, and your great plugin,

Steph
Adam May 28, 2011 at 5:12 pm: Yep. There was a permissions issue with the feed.

Thanks for your help.
Russell May 28, 2011 at 8:19 am: HI Adam,

Flickr is returning no photos. Click the link associated with the message – if there are no “items” in the feed then Flickr has not yet made your photos publicly available, either because it has not yet synchronized its servers for your photos or because you have marked the photos as private.

If you see photos on the feed but not in WordPress then follow the instructions to clear the WordPress RSS cache which makes WordPress go back to Flickr to get the latest feed
Adam May 28, 2011 at 3:40 am: I also have the error “Please verify your settings, clear your RSS cache on the Slickr Flickr Admin page and check your Flickr feed”. However, I’m on version 1.28.
Russell May 4, 2011 at 10:58 am: Hi Rylan,

I will look into why this is not the case and fix in the next release which I will do this weekend.

Thanks for pointing this out

Regards

Russell
Rylan May 4, 2011 at 10:05 am: Hi Russell

For some reason Wordpress is not picking up that my 1.25 version is NOT the latest version and will not allow me to update.

Do I have to manually update it?

Many thanks

Rylan
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Russell April 28, 2011 at 7:15 pm: JaBI,

Please upgrade to the latest version of Slickr Flickr to fix this.

Regards

Russell
JaBI April 28, 2011 at 6:07 pm: I am getting this error too: Error fetching Flickr photos: A feed could not be found at http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search〈=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&api_key=cf0369064756fdfef70a0187a23d7be4&user_id=52790003@n07&sort=date-taken-asc&tags=algara2010&per_page=42
Russell April 23, 2011 at 8:45 pm: Hi Monil,

I deleted a few tags off the list and it started working for me: it worked for 11 tags but not with 12. This seems to be a restriction of Flickr and not of Slickr Flickr.

For example, compare

this example and this example
Monil April 23, 2011 at 8:11 pm: Hi Russell,

Greetings for the day.

I am currently using version 1.16 of Slickr Flicker, for my Gallery page.

~ The slideshow is not visible and it shows the error message:
Error fetching Flickr photos: A feed could not be found at http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&api_key=ab1429c243033e7bfc59a1de39048026&user_id=34661798@N04&tags=coorg, bangalore,karwar,sunrise,sunset,

I thought that problem might have happened due to not upgrading to new version. So I moved to version 1.27 after receiving the mail from you.
But the still the same problem persists even after updating to version 1.27. So again I moved to version 1.16. I am facing still the same problem and not able to fix above mentioned issue.

I have also cleared the cache by using the Slikr Flikr admin page.

Kindly let me know how can I get the images again.

Flickr ID: 34661798@N04
URL: http://monildalal.com/?page_id=11

Regards,
Monil
Bill April 9, 2011 at 12:02 am: Thanks Russell… that took care of it.
Russell April 8, 2011 at 11:23 pm: HI Bill,

This is a bug in Slickr Flickr 1.26

Please upgrade to Slickr Flickr 1.27 which fixes the problem – go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slickr-flickr/
Bill April 8, 2011 at 7:57 pm: I noticed today I’m getting this error:

Error fetching Flickr photos: A feed could not be found at
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&&id=25250702@n05&tags=20110313&per_page=20

When I navigate to the tag’s page and click the RSS I can see the feed:

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=25250702@N05&tags=20110313&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

Am I missing something? This was all working fine a few days ago. (I updated to WP 3.1.1 today, but it was not working before that update either.)
Russell April 1, 2011 at 1:39 pm: I investigated the page http://www.slickrflickr.com/2270/flickr-galleria-slide-transitions-now-supported-by-slickr-flickr/ which has a medium size galleria, a medium 640 galleria, a small slideshow and a small gallery.

The investigation shows the image file is requested twice by the galleria; the first causes the file to be fetched and returns HTTP status 200 OK; and on the second request the server returns 304 Not Modified which is telling the browser that it already has the file. So the physical file is only being sent once.

To improve performance you may want to use compression and also set expiry headers on images. Here is the code that needs to be placed in your .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/plain text/xml image/x-icon </IfModule> <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 3 days" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 7 days" ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 7 days" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 30 days" ExpiresByType image/bmp "access plus 30 days" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 30 days" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 30 days" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 30 days" ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 30 days" </IfModule>
Russell April 1, 2011 at 9:43 am: Hi Richard,

Thanks for that great question. Are you using the galleria? The slideshows and gallery do not do any scaling but the galleria does.

In the galleria you have the big photo and the thumbnail beneath the big photo is created as a scaled image. I think it is relatively inexpensive to produce the thumbnail if it needs the big photo anyway – I do not believe the same large photo is being fetched twice – it is most likely being fetched once and then displayed at full size and at the scaled size. So I believe that the Google tool may be misreporting because it is assuming the large version of the photo is being fetched twice

I will do some investigations to try and prove whether one or two fetches are taking place.

In the unlikely event the browser is in fact fetching the big image twice, then is should be possible to modify the galleria code (it is a open source jquery plugin) to use the ‘square’ 75x75px image from flickr so no resizing is required.
richard April 1, 2011 at 9:25 am: Hi Russell,

I am using flickrslickr on our website. Today I tried the new google tool http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/ to see how fast Google thinks our pages are. And the result is BAD … this has nothing to do with your plugin (I think).

This google tool comes back with suggestions, and one of them is the following:

++++++++++++++++++
The following images are resized in HTML or CSS. Serving scaled images could save 1.7MiB (94% reduction).
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/…/5208433103_2a47ae0f30.jpg is resized in HTML or CSS from 497×500 to 80×80. Serving a scaled image could save 182.8KiB (97% reduction).
++++++++++++++++++

Can you help me with HOW / WHERE I can make this reduction happen? Is this something that needs to be done in Flickr itself? If so, do I need to upload new images, which would not make sense to me? Or is there another place I need to deal with this within Flickr. OR is it something that needs to be taken care off within SlickrFlickr?

Thanks for your help

Richard
Russell January 28, 2011 at 5:37 pm: Hi Ivy,

These posts are also useful:

http://www.slickrflickr.com/1709/flickr-photos-not-available-at-least-not-yet/

http://www.slickrflickr.com/1449/how-to-resolve-flickr-rss-caching-problems/

The probability is your photos will turn up in somewhere between a few minutes and a few hours when Flickr synchronizes its servers for your photos.

If you would like personal support then please upgrade to Slickr Flickr Pro
ivy January 28, 2011 at 4:29 pm: “No photos available right now.
Please verify your settings, clear your RSS cache on the Slickr Flickr Admin page and check your Flickr feed”

This is the response that Im getting on my website….how do I fix?

Here’s my flickr id: 57945647@N05
Here’s my website: http://www.ibffnashville.com
Liz January 2, 2011 at 6:03 pm: Have you tried reading this page? http://www.slickrflickr.com/1376/how-to-display-photos-from-a-flickr-photo-set/

Specifically the paragraph entitled “Displaying Up to 50 Photos in A Set Using the Flickr API”?
A Blogger January 2, 2011 at 4:17 pm: Can’t get the plugin to show more than 20 pics despite having all the setting correct.
Russell December 13, 2010 at 9:51 pm: Hi Allie,

Flickr servers are having problems right now serving up photos. I think if you wait a little while the problem will clear itself

This is what your tag page http://www.flickr.com/photos/57005765@N02/tags/auction/ looks like right now
allie December 13, 2010 at 8:22 pm: I am trying to incorporate your plugin on my site (http://carnegievanguard-events.com/wordpress/?page_id=24) but it is not working.
Tag=auction
Flickr ID=57005765@N02

Please advise!!
Mike September 14, 2010 at 9:45 pm: Hi Russell,

Im having the same problem as the others.

My test post has the following shortcode – [slickr-flickr tag="test"]

When I preview the post Iget the following;

Error fetching Flickr RSS feed: A feed could not be found at http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&id=highlyfavouredltd_&tagmode=all&tags=test

but, my test image is displayed perfectly at the url below;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/highlyfavouredltd_/tags/test

Any ideas, I see your app being very useful in my work.

Thanks,
Mike
Russell July 13, 2010 at 7:31 pm: Arne just happened to be using the wrong Flickr ID so the solution might not be the same.

Please let me know you Flickr ID, the tag you are are using and the URL of the page you are using it on?
A.Fruit July 13, 2010 at 6:29 pm: I’m having the same problem as @Arne.
Russell July 12, 2010 at 3:19 pm: When I check out the RSS feed right now it is showing no photos – http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=rss_200&id=21879932@N02&tags=stgr

Do you have the correct Flickr ID – this URL looks incorrect http://www.flickr.com/photos/21879932@N02/ – these are no tags

Regards

Russell (not Jeff)
Arne July 12, 2010 at 3:02 pm: Thanks Russell, for your wonderful application.

I need some help to find my error. Regardless of what I try, I get “No photos available for stgr”, “stgr” being my tag.
So I tried
[slickr-flickr type="slideshow" id="21879932@N02" tag="stgr"]
[slickr-flickr type="slideshow" id="48295685@N06" tag="myexpresssite"]
I get a “No photos available for stgr” and only the “myexpresssite” shows up.
Where should I start looking? Thanks a bunch for your time.