Flickr Slideshow Examples and Tutorials

This section covers some of the features in Slickr Flickr that allows you to add slideshows, at various sizes, in posts, pages and sidebar widgets.

Slideshow or Galleria with a Single Photo

Prior to version 1.20 of Slickr Flickr there were display issues when there was a single photo. In slideshow the photo flickered (and not in a good way) and in the galleria only the thumbnail appeared but not the large photo. Slickr Flickr was incorrectly assuming that a slideshow must have more than one photo. [...]

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Using A Flickr Slideshow To Promote Affiliate Products

This tutorial is about using a Flickr Slideshow to promote an affiliate product. In the example I’m using the Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin to prepare a slideshow featuring the Canon Powershot A1100 Camera. The steps involved are Take photos of the product Upload the photos to Flickr and tag them Write a product review on [...]

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Helping Users With Slickr Flickr Problems

Russell uses this page to display the results of the various tests he does to help solve user issues.

If you contact us, we’ll use this page to demonstrate your slideshow working for you, so that you can see it functioning properly, and we can help you to fix any issues you may have.

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Customizing a Flickr Slideshow

The supplied CSS settings for the Flickr Slideshow work fine on a normally sized site with a content areas of at least 550px and a sidebar of at least 240px. However, you do have the ability to control fonts, sizes, styles, margin and paddings by overriding the settings in the Slickr Flickr CSS file. The [...]

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Clickable Flickr Slideshows

Creating a Flickr Slideshow with clickable images is very useful where you want to take the visitor to a specific page location if they click the slideshow. You might want to do this if the slideshow: features your own product and the click takes the visitor to the product page features an affiliate product and [...]

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Small Flickr Slideshow Example

In this example I chose to display the slideshow using ‘small’ photos from Flickr; typically 240px by 180px. I’m using some photos taken in southern Spain. The post content contains the following line : This is an example of a small slideshow where the text is floated to the right and hence wraps around the [...]

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Simple Slickr Flickr Slideshow Example

The simple slideshow using the defaults is suitable for inclusion in the content area of a post or page. It uses the ‘medium’ size photos which are around 520px by 390px on Flickr. The code in the post (minus the square brackets) is : Photo copyright Part Of My Life’s London Skyline photos

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