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Hi Katy,
Many Thanks for your feedback.
If you use the parameter after=”today” you will get photos since midnight. For this to work you will need to save your Flickr API code in Slickr Flickr Admin settings.
However, you may run into an issue with this approach as WordPress automatically caches the feed of photos from Flickr for 12 hours. You can clear the cache manually by going into Slickr Flickr Admin and clicking the ‘Clear RSS cache’ button – you would need to do this after uploading each batch of photos to Flickr. Alternatively, you could use Slickr Flickr Pro edition which has the setting cache=”off” – this clears the cache automatically so will fetch photos as soon as they are available on Flickr.
Hi – Just wanted to say as a non-developer how useful and easy to use your plugin is. I have just set up a website with an idea ive had for a long time based around photography. Its still it is very early stages but im hoping to get lots of people involved and your plugin is just what i need.
My only question is… can i add a short code that will display photos from today? (not the latest photos code as there will be differing amounts of pictures each day hopefully) and without having to change the tag each day on the photo i load that day and yesterdays? Hope that makes sense? Its so the plugin will automatically show images from today only!
Katy´s last [type] ..Hello world!
Thank you Liz and Russel, You have here a superb plugin for those prophotographers who want to show their portfolio on a fancier place than Flickr, without having to moving anything !
Continue with the good work.
francoisinjapan´s last [type] ..Views from and around Zadar, Croatia
@francoisinjapan – Thank you for pointing out the problem. We will look at it and if we can reproduce it, it will be fixed in the next release currently scheduled for mid-October.
Dear Liz and Russel,
Here, my objective was also to help you by signaling this bug (size=”original” not working as expected), and helping in finding the source of the problem.
I understand your point, I am myself not making money with my website so I will have to consider if I live with the bug or go for a different solution.
francoisinjapan´s last [type] ..Views from and around Zadar, Croatia
@francoisinjapan – for further help please log your questions in the Pro forum. We can only offer extended help to Pro users as our free time is very limited. I hope you understand.
Dear Russel, I click on my link and arrived on the page without 404, unloged, tried from a different computer and could not get the 404, I am quite sure it is online, you should be able to reach it, as the latest post today on http://www.discretepicture.com
I used
[slickr-flickr tag="zadarserie1landscape" use_key="y" items="50" type="gallery" size="original" sort="date" direction="ascending"]
Or
[slickr-flickr tag="zadarserie1landscape" use_key="y" items="50" type="gallery" size="large" sort="date" direction="ascending"]
Both give the same result, not using the biggest picture available on flickr.
Thank you !
francoisinjapan´s last [type] ..Ryugenji, remembering a temple found on March 12 morning
Getting a 404 error on this page as shown below.Also please supply the slickr-flickr command you are using
Dear Russel,
My id is: 42979833@N00
I made visible the page on which I tested my first post with slidr flickr, with size original or “large”, depending on the language (english is “original”):
http://www.discretepicture.com/?p=3135
Francois, What is your Flickr ID and URL of your page and what specific slickr-flickr command are you using?
nice idea ! it really helps, far better than uploading on wordpress and playing with the library.
Just one problem now, It tried with “original” and “large” but it never shows the biggest image available on flickr (1920p).
francoisinjapan´s last [type] ..A small small part of the “Oktoberfest”, Munich
Here is the link to do_shortcode on WordPress http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode
Hi Trenton,
This might be down to the quotation marks used – sometimes WordPress comments does not render these faithfully – there should be matching single quotation marks around the string that has opening and closing square brackets.
Russell,
wow! thanks for the quick reply. I’m still learning PHP but when i implement the code you posted it sends back a php error:
i used this: do_shortcode(‘[slickr flickr type="slideshow" tag="your tag"]‘);
and now the page won’t load and gives this error instead:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /home/trenton4/public_html/stanridge/wp-content/themes/tweaker3/header.php on line 71
site: http://www.trentonthegreat.com/stanridge
seems like i’m missing some kind of tag before/after it or something.
thank you for your hard work making the plugin and all of your help.
trenton
Hi Trenton,
Thanks for your feedback
You can embed the slideshow in the header – however it is down to your theme on how easy this is to do. For example, this site has a slideshow in the top right of the header.
Use the following php function: do_shortcode(‘[slickr flickr type="slideshow" tag="your tag"]‘);
this plug-in is great! it works very well and have already told many friends about it. i only have one suggestion for a future update:
it would be nice to be able to embed a slideshow in the header. i can get slideshows to work everywhere else, but in the header the code just shows up as text..
Look forward to the videos, thanks again!
BTW slideshow looks great on iPhone/iPad.
Thanks for your comments, Vickie. In the video I will go through the various wrapping options you suggest in detail.
The variable pictures size issue is more difficult nut to crack as potentially every picture could be a different size. At the moment I scale the height of portrait photos if the slideshow is landscape and scale the width of landscape photos if the slideshow is portrait – his make for a better fit but still leaves gaps. To get rid of any spaces I would need to find the minimum height (width) of all photos in the landscape (portrait) slideshow and scale each photo down to this fixed size.
However, having all the photos the same size will always gives the best results!
Russell
Thank you Russell and yes, very useful.
Appreciate what you say about the formatting not being anything to do with the plugin, but suspect there may be others like me who don’t know how to do this (but your plugin is so easy for us non-coders to use).
Any video tutorials you could do on how to place/size/format the plugin on pages would be brilliant. For example other content on the right, left or both sides wrapping around the slideshow, above/below etc.
One other thing that would be useful to know how to deal with is if you have pictures of different sizes and what your options are to avoid big spaces as not sure how to get around this.
Great plugin, love it – many thanks!
Hi Vickie,
Please check out the example of wrapping text around a slideshow
This might help. If it does not I will do a video demonstration in the next week
Regards
Russell
So glad I’ve found this after much searching as just what I’m looking for.
Now trying to work out how to position on a page/post so that the content can wrap around it so any FAQs on this would be great.
Thank you
Hi Mary,
I have no plans right now do implement sets but it is pretty easy to get around this by just tagging your photos in the set – this takes less than a minute.Support for photosets was implemented in August 2010 in version 1.14 of Slickr Flickr.
However there is a limitation of fetching only the most 20 recent photos form the set.
Regards
Russell
Hi! I love the slickr-flickr WP plug-in and just wondered whether you had considered a parameter which allows slickr-flickr to display a “set” rather than a “tag”.
Thank you for your efforts and again, a wonderful plug-in.
Mary
Good news. I will add Slimbox to the supported LightBox list.
Did you install SlimBox independently or was it via a Wordpress plugin?
Awesome thanks Russell. I was under the impression it wouldn’t show anything unless I install the Lightbox Plus plugin also.
But it does work perfectly with slimbox.
Hi Rilla,
If you are running the latest version 1.8 of Slickr Flickr, then this option does exist. Slickr Flickr now works with other lightboxes such as ThickBox, FancyBox, LightBox Plus and Shutter Reloaded.
I have not tested it with SlimBox but it should work. When using LightBox Plus the links are generated with rel=”lightbox” and the standard LightBox is not installed.
To activate, go to Slickr Flickr Admin Settings and set the LightBox option to “LightBox Plus for Wordpress” and press Save.
Please let me know how you get on
Regards
Russell
I would love it if you would allow an option for the gallery to not force the use of lightbox. Because I already have slimbox installed overall for the website, it’d be cool if the anchor links generated for the slideshow just has
rel="lightbox"but without the use of a separate lightbox script.