About the Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin
Slickr Flickr makes it easy to display a set of photos held in your Flickr account either as gallery, a galleria or as an unbranded slideshow in posts, pages, or sidebar widgets.
Slickr Flickr can be downloaded from downloads.wordpress.org
I created the plugin because there were no other plugins that allowed unbranded slideshows of Flickr photos to be easily added to WordPress sites. This site should help you make the most of the plugin and get support if you need it.
Plugin Changelog (Version History)
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.39 | 22-Feb-2012 | Corrected missing file reference and set debug to false on galleria to suppress “Could not extract width/height from image:” warning message that some users are still encountering. |
| 1.38 | 22-Feb-2012 | Replaced non-compliant LightBox with BSD licensed LightBox by Warren Krevenski |
| 1.37 | 30-Dec-2011 | Remove dependency on latest version of WordPress |
| 1.36 | 21-Dec-2011 | Includes Galleria 1.2.6, an option to set the default photo size, minified JavaScript for improved performance, ability to select a specific page in a multi page gallery plus a couple of minor bug fixes. |
| 1.35 | 27-Sep-2011 | Includes a modified version of Galleria 1.2.5. that applies the galleria code patch for the “Could not extract width/height from image:” error that affects some browsers; fixes an HTML error on the admin page which caused the Save button to disappear in some circumstances. |
| 1.34 | 09-Sep-2011 | Added Galleria 1.2.5; changed galleria to use thumbnails from Flickr to improve load time. |
| 1.33 | 25-Aug-2011 | Added support for single and double quotes in photo titles and descriptions; reduced amount of white space below a slideshow image if captions are off; added new parameter, “bottom”, to control the spacing at the bottom of a slideshow, galleria or gallery; added feature to galleria 1.0 to hide the start and stop navigation links if you specify pause=”off”; added ability to specify a default value for galleria 1.2.3 options on the admin settings panel; updated Slickr Flickr Admin Settings to support standard WordPress metabox features: screen options and panels than can be closed or hidden; and for SLickr Flickr Pro users, added support for private photos. |
| 1.32 | 26-Jul-2011 | Fixed bug with display of height and width of galleria; added option for WP Pretty Photo LightBox to support a gallery |
| 1.31 | 22-Jul-2011 | Fixed bug with display of original size photos; added option to control period of caching random photos; and introduced quarterly billing option for Slickr Flickr Pro users |
| 1.30 | 18-Jul-2011 | Improved support for Galleria themes such as folio, minimal, widescreen, twelve by removing all slickr flickr CSS that used to affect the galleria and instead using galleria options to set the galleria size – galleria themes are now loaded dynamically rather than statically; added support for multiple galleries per page when using the ShutterBox lightbox; fixed bugs with display of large Galleria photos, with passing descriptions to the lightbox even when they are not required, with empty slideshow link parameters, with the autoplay slideshow option; added option to display a random selection of photos from a larger set (Pro Edition only) |
| 1.29 | 1-Jun-2011 | Fixed problem with notification that a new version of the plugin is available; added support for Highslide LightBox; improved support for ThickBox to allow use of both Flickr Links and Descriptions; modified Galleria to allow it to support folio as well as classic theme(skin); fixed bug in formatting of photoset photo descriptions; and added support for grouping photos from multiple Flickr Galleries (Pro Edition only) |
| 1.28 | 28-Apr-2011 | New option search=”galleries” gallery=”your gallery id” to display a Flickr gallery – this now automatically converts from the public gallery id to the compound gallery id so you no longer have to lookup the full compound gallery id; new option restrict=”orientation” to filter photos so only those of the desired orientation are displayed; new admin option not to load Galleria at all if you don’t use this form of display; new admin option to select the Galleria theme; updated Galleria script to version 1.2.3; new admin option to allow jQuery to be in either the header or footer (this fixes mootools loading issue with Featured Content Gallery Plugin); new annual payment option and also a lifetime single payment option for Slickr Flickr Pro Support Membership |
| 1.27 | 7-Apr-2011 | Fixed bug that converted Flickr ID to lower case |
| 1.26 | 4-Apr-2011 | Fixed bug that “items” was not being used to limit to number of photos when more than 50 were being selected; moved all jQuery code into the footer; converted some parameters to lower case – DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE DUE TO BUG FIXED IN 1.27 |
| 1.25 | 28-Mar-2011 | Added new parameters “page” and “per_page” to allow selection of photos by page; “thumbnail_border” to allow override of thumbnail hover color (Pro Edition only); “target” for slideshow link so it can open a new window; “options” to give support for Galleria 1.2 options; tweaked Galleria Classic skin to improve its appearance on light colored sites; moved javascript into footer to improve page load times; fixed bug with Flickr Link when displaying a gallery of a photoset and in the link to the RSS feed when no photos are returned |
| 1.24 | 27-Feb-2011 | Added lightbox=”none” option to link thumbnails directly to Flickr without a lightbox; added nav=”above|below|none” to allow control of galleria navigation menu and updated readme.txt to indicate support for WordPress 3.1.0 |
| 1.23 | 23-Feb-2011 | Fixed bug introduced in version 1.22 to do with the “items” parameter which could mean that too many photos were being returned |
| 1.22 | 19-Feb-2011 | Added Flickr commons license selection; search by date taken and date uploaded; search by tag for group photos; improved slideshow sizing; added galleria 1.2 option; increased photoset search from 20 to 50 photos; added unlimited search for photosets (Pro version); and added search by post publish date (Pro version) |
| 1.21 | 25-Jan-2011 | Added automatic failover from Flickr API to Flickr RSS if no photos are returned (Pro Edition only); added option to disable captions in the lightbox; added support for machine tags (e.g geo tags); unbundled ShadowBox; improved support for larger slideshows; improved CSS to allow IE6 and IE7 to display gallery of large thumbnails; fixed bug with slideshow transitions |
| 1.20 | 16-Jan-2011 | Added support for Flickr links in the photo captions in the galleria display; support for Evolution LightBox and PrettyPhoto LightBox; better instructions for using third party lightboxes; slideshow “transition” parameter to override the default transition of 0.5 seconds (Pro version); “align” parameter to make it easier to center a gallery or slideshow; improved handling of large thumbnails; improved error reporting when attempting to fetch more than 20 photos from a photoset and fixed display issues where there is only a single photo in the slideshow |
| 1.19 | 18-Dec-2010 | Reinstated automatic use of API key if more than 20 photos are requested; use https protocol for js and css files if admin site is being run securely; removed warning when checking for updates; added cursor pointer/hand when hovering over the slideshow to show it is clickable; and added Slideshow LightBox display in Pro edition |
| 1.18 | 13-Dec-2010 | Added the missing images folder |
| 1.17 | 13-Dec-2010 | Fixed problem with getting photo descriptions and also with using multiple tags; added a “descriptions” class so that there is less white space beneath the slideshow and created Slickr Flickr Pro edition with Priority Support Forum and Bonus Features |
| 1.16 | 25-Oct-2010 | Added Medium 640 photo size, size=”m640″; and moved support site to http://www.slickrflickr.com |
| 1.15 | 18-Oct-2010 | Renamed Flickr class to avoid conflict with other plugins; fixed bug with thumbnail size; added parameter use_key=’y’ to force use of api key (this fixes the issue with missing descriptions when not using the api key); allow tag not to be specified so most recent photos are returned |
| 1.14 | 2-Aug-2010 | Added parameter search=photos|favorites|friends|groups|sets to allow more than just tagged photos to be selected; added api_key option to allow selection of up to 50 photos |
| 1.13 | 2-Jul-2010 | Added pause=on option for the slideshow so you can pause or resume the slideshow by clicking the photo, added autoplay=off option for the galleria so you can stop the galleria slideshow playing automatically, fixed bug with captions always displaying in the galleria, default value “wp_” as the table prefix if none is defined, inhibited display of html on the tooltip popup on placing the mouse over a thumbnail by using the Flickr photo title as the image title attribute and the Flickr photo description as the inage alt attribute |
| 1.12 | 30-Jun-2010 | Fix bug with captions not displaying in the galleria and also allow more than one galleria slideshow per page |
| 1.11 | 29-Jun-2010 | Fixed javascript bug when using other lightboxes |
| 1.10 | 29-Jun-2010 | Consolidated script and stylesheet files, fixed bug with the speed of play of the galleria slideshow, added option to control whether galleria slideshow plays automatically |
| 1.9 | 08-Jun-2010 | Add missing CSS file for admin settings |
| 1.8 | 07-Jun-2010 | Integrate with other LightBoxes, large thumbnails |
| 1.7 | 16-May-2010 | Added admin settings feature to clear RSS cache |
| 1.6 | 09-May-2010 | Fix to the CSS for the “small” slideshow when in portrait orientation |
| 1.5 | 08-May-2010 | Fix bug regarding alignment of gallery |
| 1.4 | 08-May-2010 | Added many new features: slideshow/gallery combo, a clickable link for the slideshow, multiple tag selection, an autoplay option for the lightbox, ordering of slides by date, title or description, gallery captions, slide descriptions and links to Flickr on the lightbox, fixed number of phots per row in the gallery |
| 1.3 | 08-May-2010 | Added support for Flickr groups and random start slideshows |
| 1.2 | 06-Mar-2010 | Fixed readme.txt format |
| 1.1 | 06-Mar-2010 | Fixed issue with slideshows in sidebar text widgets |
| 1.0 | 26-Feb-2010 | Initial Release |
Demo – Slickr Flickr Gallery With Enormous Original Size Popups
Click the photo to see the full size photo (but you will need a big monitor to see original size photos)
Demo – Slickr Flickr Slideshow Of Hounds
You Can Almost See The Sea From Here
Rocco "Downie" Junior
Family Resemblance?
Somebody dropped a Sandwich?
Summertime and The Livin´ is EZ
Does My Head Look Big In This?
This Pillow Is Well Hard
A Girl Can Never Have Too Many Blankets
A Greener Way To See Life Down Under
Joined At The Lughole
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Thanks for the quick response, Russell – that’s sorted me out!
Peter
Hi Peter,
I patched the Galleria 1.2.5 code to fix this problem and just assumed (obviously incorrectly) that the Galleria developer had fixed the problem in version 1.2.6 so the latest version does not have my patch
To get around the issue you can change your Slickr Flickr Admin Galleria option to use version 1.2.5 .
Alternatively, you can apply the patch yourself – it is described here – http://getsatisfaction.com/galleria/topics/could_not_extract_width_height_from_image_in_webkit_browsers
In any case, the next release of Slickr Flickr will have the patch applied to the Galleria if required.
Hi, Russle – I have version 1.37, yet in FireFox I still have the “Could not extract width/height from image” errors for my thumbnails. I had FF8 and upgraded to FF10, but no difference.
Thanks
Peter
Hi Lee,
Use options=”width:600px;” For other galleria params see http://galleria.io/docs/1.2/options/
Regards
Russell
Hi Russell,
Love your plug in
Just have a question about the galleria frame. We need it to be 600 px wide, and I was wondering if it was possible to make it so in the regular version, or does that require pro?
Thanks
Maria, I am not sure exactly what you mean by latest sets; you can get latest photos by NOT specifying any tag or any set.
For example, [slickr-flickr type="galleria" items="20"] displays the 20 latest photos i the galleria
How do you set a galleria to auto update with the latest sets added in your Flickr account?
Thanks Robert, WordPress comments do not always render quotes correctly. I will go and fix the offending comment
Oh, here’s what had the bad examples, which led me astray: http://www.slickrflickr.com/56/how-to-use-slickr-flickr-to-create-a-slideshow-or-gallery/
Aha, just figured it out. I can’t recall the exact URL, but some example on your website displayed replacing the quotes with “"”. Simply replacing those with a ” character did the trick. I feel dumb, but now I’d like to know what specific page actually had that mistake so I could suggest a correction.
Old and busted:
[slickr-flickr search="sets" set="72157627140428551" items="5" ]
Working code:
[slickr-flickr search="sets" set="72157627140428551" items="5" ]
Thanks for alerting me to the help page not working. The page works in preview mode. When I disabled WP-Super Cache and it started working again. How bizarre it that?
It sounds like Slickr Flickr is fetching from your photostream and not a photoset. (did you include search=”sets” in the command?
If that is not the problem then the next questions are:
What specific slickr-flickr command are you using? What is your Flickr ID? What is you page URL? Which version of Slickr FLickr are you using? How you very recently moved photos out of the photoset in question?
Regards
Russell
Hi there. I’m trying out the free version of your plugin and I’m having an odd issue. First off, I’m running the latest version of wordpress (3.2.1) and your plugin. I have a flickr pro account with hundreds of photos organized into sets. I am trying to display the photos from a single set in a gallery. I’m appropriately using the “set=” parameter when using your gallery… and I get some odd behavior.
The five photos from the set load fine. Everything scrolls correctly… but then the slideshow starts scrolling through photos that aren’t in the set. Not behavior I can live with (setting this up for someone running for local office here). Have you seen this behavior before?
PS: Your regular help page isn’t loading.
Hi, I have just sent through the username and password for the membership site to your gmail account (The site is not on this URL which is why the forgotten password did not work)
Hi, I bought the pro version earlier today but the email with log in information didnt have a password and the “Lost Password” function doesn’t work. Can you email me please? Thanks.
Hi Tala,
Thanks for the feedback
To rate the plugin you need go the Slickr Flickr Plugin page on Wordpress, then login (or register), then click the star rating on the right hand side of the page.
Many thanks
Russell
Hi man, great plug in, i could find how to send you my vote for rate your plug in with 5 stars
Your site is now featured on Thesisgallery.com!
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Hi Richard,
You should have received the second email at 13/6/2010 5:10 PM. Thereafter, the emails will arrive Saturday mornings
Regards
Russell
Hi Richard
Russell is running a half marathon today – in fact he must be about 6 miles into it by now. We’ll be back later today when we can check out what is wrong with your video delivery. Sorry for the delay – we’ll get back to you later.
Liz
Hi Russell,
I subscribed to the video series, received your email to confirm my email address and then it stopped .. did not get any other email with the link to the videos
Is something going wrong on my or your side
?
Richard