Slickr Flickr Help

There are a number of resources available on this site to help you with using Slickr Flickr.

  • For support, please purchase Slickr Flickr Pro. Slickr Flickr has become very popular so it is no longer practical for me to provide free personal support.
  • Have a question? Firstly check out the Frequently Asked Questions page. Most questions have already been answered.
  • Having problems running Slickr Flickr? Check common issues. We already have a solution for most issues with getting Slickr Flickr running on your site.
  • Got a great idea to improve Slickr Flickr? Check out the Suggestions section. Your feature may already be live or in the development queue.
  • Stuck for what to do next? Get some new ideas by watching Slickr Flickr Video Tutorials

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Russell February 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm

Flickr uses standard photos size: medium (500px by 375px) medium 640 (640px by 480px), large (1024px by 768px) so it is most efficient to choose one of these sizes. Alternatively you need to choose a size that is “the next size up” and then place the photos in a container of the size you want. The photos will resize automatically.

Ernest February 22, 2012 at 11:28 am

Hi Russell,

I like your plugin!
One question to ask, how can I change the photo size to other value, for example, width 700px* height 467px ?

Sorry for duplicate questions.

Russell January 12, 2012 at 1:06 am

Enis, Thanks for your question.

Slickr Flickr itself supports the standard Flickr size photos (square, thumbnail, small, medium, medium 640, large and original).

But you can use Slickr Flickr with a couple of Galleria themes that do support fullscreen photos, namely fullscreen and folio.

Enis January 11, 2012 at 7:37 pm

Hi there!

First I want to thank for this amazing plugin!
I have one question, is it possible to “fit” the flickr images to screen size? somehow?

Thx a lot

Enis January 11, 2012 at 7:34 pm

Hi there!
First I want to thank you for that super plugin.

I have one question if its possible.
Is it possible to fit the flickr images to screen size? this would be amazing!

Thx a lot

regards

Liz January 8, 2012 at 4:23 pm

:-)

gavin fox January 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm

Sorry, ignore my last comment, I fixed it. I was being an idiot :-)

Great plug-in
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gavin fox January 8, 2012 at 4:14 pm

I think I’m doing something quite wrong. When I try to use the plug-in I just see a formatted list of images, no slide show. Do I need to install another plug-in to see the slide show? Or could something be missing from my server set-up?

Here I’m using: [slickr-flickr tag="america" items="20" type="gallery"]
http://www.deathtotheflippers.com/testpage/

Thanks for any help. This plug-in looks exactly like the thing I’ve been looking for.
gavin fox´s last [type] ..Walking Around America

Russell December 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Hi Doug,

The Galleria 1.0 is really designed for slidshows/galleries that have photos or the same orientation and size so you do not get the ‘bouncing’. A gallery is better display for photos of different sizes.

The later versions of the Galleria have a number of parameters that address how it resizes or crops photos to fit the fixed size canvas. Please see parameters imageCrop and also other options such as height and width.

Also check out this example of how to specify Galleria options

Doug Nienhuis November 28, 2011 at 1:03 am

I just started using Slickr Flickr, and I think it will work very well for me. I can’t seem to work out a couple of issues, though. I think the Classic theme for the Galleria 1.0 looks nice. However, as the photos switch from a landscape image to a portrait image, all the text in the post below the images bounces up and down. All the text moves up and down as the photos change. Therefore, once you get past the Galleria, you can’t really read the blog post because it keeps moving up and down as the pictures change. I can’t imagine that is normal, but I haven’t been able to alter any settings to stop that happening.

I tried using all the other versions of the Galleria (1.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.5), but there I face a different issue. The image I see of each photo is a square that shows only a part of the picture. I don’t see the whole picture whether it is portrait or landscape. Can anyone point me in the right direction with this? For all I know, this is how Slickr Flickr is supposed to work. Then it won’t really work for me. Or else there is something wrong in my settings, but I can’t see any settings to change that will affect this.

Any help would be great!

Doug Nienhuis

Russell November 11, 2011 at 2:18 am

Jeff, what slickr-flickr command are you using? do you have sort=”description”

Jeff G November 10, 2011 at 6:10 am

The photos aren’t displaying in the right order on my website. I have numbered them in their descriptions as it says, but they show up on my site in a random order. Any suggestions?

Liz October 22, 2011 at 10:08 am

Hi Mark – Slickr Flickr uses the Flickr API for some functions and Flickr RSS for others. Slickr Flickr PRO has the feature of using Flickr RSS when the Flickr API fails or is not available, (free Slickr Flickr does not have the failover feature).

If I understand your question when you say “set” you just mean a set of photos as opposed to a Flickr Photo Set? In that case if you are selecting less than 20 photos then Flickr RSS will indeed be used and if you don’t specify a tag, then you’ll get the most recent photos from your photostream.

In summary, for up to 20 photos Flickr RSS is used, but beyond 20 Flickr API is used. 50 photos is the limit for Slickr Flickr. Slickr Flickr PRO is the same but gives you more than 50 photos plus the failover feature.

Mark Simchock October 21, 2011 at 10:01 pm

Re: Failover to RSS on Flickr API failure

Looks pretty nice. Glad I found this, I think the client will be pleased. But before I bite, I have a question…I take it everything is done via the API, is that correct? So (per the FAQ) there is no simple grab a set – any set – using the Flckr set RSS option.

Liz October 7, 2011 at 1:07 pm

@Chris – Yes that is a good point and Russell will put this in, in the next release. We are planning the next release for mid October. Thanks for your suggestion. Liz

Chris Burt October 7, 2011 at 1:02 pm

I recently attempted to give access to Slikr Flikr via a role management plugin and found that Slikr Flikr is hard-coded to operate only for Level 9 users and up. I changed the code for the first “add_options_page” section from “9″ to “edit_plugins” and that did the trick for me. As far as I can tell, the level system is being phased out so would it be possible for you to replace it with the “edit_plugins” capability instead? Thanks!

Russell September 28, 2011 at 11:19 am

Hi,

The new version with cleaner HTML and a Galleria 1.2.5 code patch is out now.

Regards

Russell

Deborah E September 28, 2011 at 12:59 am

Good for you, Russell. Looking forward to the update ;)
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Russell September 27, 2011 at 10:31 am

Thanks Deborah for your eagle eyes!. I introduced some errors in the HTML when I added metaboxes in the last release.

I ran the Slickr Flickr admin page the HTML Validator and fixed a total 9 errors in fact.

The fixes will be in the next release of Slickr Flickr in a few days.

Thanks

Regards

Russell

Deborah E September 27, 2011 at 8:21 am

Greetings,

I noticed that you have a coding issue in the most recent version, near the at the bottom, negating the “submit” button, making it impossible to save the settings.

I corrected the code, on the admin.php page, removing the second “/” in and was able to get it working.

I thought you should know, as future users will have trouble, as well, until it is fixed.

-Deborah
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matej September 19, 2011 at 11:03 am

Hi Russell,

thanks, that was fast and informative! I’m learning and updating :)

Matej

Russell September 19, 2011 at 10:01 am

Hi Matej,

I will also add a Slickr Flickr LightBox option for non-language/symbolic buttons in the next version. Thanks for the suggestion

Regards

Russell

Russell September 19, 2011 at 9:57 am

Hi Matej,

The NEXT, PREV and CLOSE button are all gif files so you could create a Slovenian version of each button and place this somewhere on your site, say in the images folder as lightbox-btn-prev-slovenian.gif, lightbox-btn-next-slovenian.gif and lightbox-btn-close-slovenian.gif

Then you could add 3 lines to your theme’s style.css that override the settings in wp-content/plugins/slickr-flickr/lightbox/css/jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

Existing code that affects the buttons is:

#lightbox-nav-btnPrev.fixedNavigation, #lightbox-nav-btnPrev:hover, #lightbox-nav-btnPrev:visited:hover { background: url(images/lightbox-btn-prev.gif) left 55% no-repeat; }
#lightbox-nav-btnNext.fixedNavigation, #lightbox-nav-btnNext:hover, #lightbox-nav-btnNext:visited:hover { background: url(images/lightbox-btn-next.gif) right 55% no-repeat; }
#lightbox-secNav-btnClose { width: 66px; float: right; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 1.0em; margin-bottom: 1.0em; background: url(images/lightbox-btn-close.gif) right 55% no-repeat; }

The new code you need to add to control the buttons in your theme’s style.css file is


#jquery-lightbox #lightbox-nav-btnPrev.fixedNavigation, #jquery-lightbox #lightbox-nav-btnPrev:hover, #jquery-lightbox #lightbox-nav-btnPrev:visited:hover { background: url(/images/lightbox-btn-prev-slovenian.gif) left 55% no-repeat; }
#jquery-lightbox #lightbox-nav-btnNext.fixedNavigation, #jquery-lightbox #lightbox-nav-btnNext:hover, #jquery-lightbox #lightbox-nav-btnNext:visited:hover { background: url(/images/lightbox-btn-next-slovenian.gif) right 55% no-repeat; }
#jquery-lightbox #lightbox-secNav-btnClose { width: 66px; float: right; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-top: 1.0em; margin-bottom: 1.0em; background: url(/images/lightbox-btn-close-slovenian.gif) right 55% no-repeat; }

Note 2 things:

1) I have added #jquery-lightbox to the start of each CSS element to make it more specific and hence override the default Slickr Flickr LIghtBox setting

2) I had put a leading ‘/’ in the background image URL so it looks in the images folder at the root of your web site. Alternatively you could host the images on Amazon S3 and have the full path to the the image. e.g background: url(http://yoursite.com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/lightbox-btn-close-slovenian.gif)

Regards

Russell

matej September 19, 2011 at 8:23 am

Hey,

question regarding possible translation. I run a site in Slovenian and am trying hard to stick with the language.

Is there a way to translate “NEXT” “PREVIOUS” “CLOSE” and “Image 7 of 9″ and make a simple non-language version, for example: “<” for PREV >” for NEXT, existing “X” for Close and “7/8″ instead of Image 7 of 8.

Otherwise all compliments to the plugin, best I’ve discovered so far.

Matej

Chris J September 12, 2011 at 11:51 am

Thanks for the very speedy reply Russell !!!
Yes, found it again and it works…

Russell September 12, 2011 at 11:29 am

Hi Chris,

It is on the same page but in the right hand sidebar, in a section called Caching between the Help section and the Compatible LightBoxes section.

However, it is now a ‘metabox’ so you can drag the Caching section around and place it wherever you prefer.

Chris J September 12, 2011 at 11:25 am

Hi Russell,
I just upgrade to 1.34. Has the manual “clear cache” button moved because I can’t find it and I am getting the typical caching problems.

(I am using Slickr Flickr on a multi-blog site and checked in the normal place on the slickr flikr admin page for the individual blog where I am using it)

Thanks

Chris J

Russell September 8, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Hi Allan,

Please make sure you are using the latest version of Slickr Flickr as this allocates less space.

Using portrait photos allocates more space than landscape as does having a description as Slickr Flickr makes spaces for a couple of lines of description.

You can reduce the amount of space using the ‘bottom’ parameter. For example; bottom=”-20″ reduces the space by 20 pixels; bottom=”10″ would increase the bottom margin by 10 pixels so make sure you put a negative sign before the number to reduce the space.

If you are on Facebook and like Slickr Flickr please ‘like Slickr Flickr’ by clicking the like button in the Facebook LikeBox in the sidebar. Thank

Russell

Allan September 7, 2011 at 8:18 pm

I am getting a large space below my slideshows – is there a code to stop this happening?
This is the code I am using.

[slickr-flickr tag="Kilda" items="16" type="slideshow" descriptions="on" orientation="portrait" size="medium" bottom=”0″ border=”on” start="random" align="right"]
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Russell September 6, 2011 at 5:56 pm

Hi Tony,

Unfortunately not. I have not explored Flickr Collections as yet.

How would you want it to work?

Regards

Russell

Tony September 6, 2011 at 10:43 am

Is possible see Flickr Collections?
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Russell September 4, 2011 at 6:05 pm

Hi Matthias,

If you are on Facebook please ‘Like’ Slickr Flickr at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Slickr-Flickr-WordPress-Plugin/129295130484054 .

Gallery styles include gallery lightbox, slideshow and galleria plus slideshow_lightbox for Pro users.

See http://www.slickrflickr.com/upgrade for all the Slickr Flickr pro features

Matthias September 4, 2011 at 12:19 pm

Hi Russel,

thank you for your fast response. And it works fine now ;) I didi’n checked the point with the tags;).

So, are there other gallery-styles? The thumbnails are a bit to big. What’s the benefit if I would buy a license?

Russell September 3, 2011 at 2:27 pm

Hi Matthias,

You have specified a tag=”mytagphrase” when you have no photos with that tag. Your tag page shows only one tag: 2011champions. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67001346@N02/tags

Either remove the tag from the slickr-flickr command to get your latest photos from your photostream or use tag=”2011 champions”

Matthias September 3, 2011 at 10:27 am

Hi Russel,

I’m really like your plugin too, but it didn’t work on my blog. I get the error message “No photos available right now.
Please verify your settings, clear your RSS cache on the Slickr Flickr Admin page and check your Flickr feed”. When I click on the Fliclkr feed link in this error message, I get not the correct Flickr rss:

This is who I get:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&&id=67001346@N02&tags=mytagphrase&per_page=20

And this is the correct one:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=67001346@N02&lang=de-de&format=rss_200

I think thats could be the problem. Do you have an idea to fix it?

Thanks a lot!

Jef Gunion August 22, 2011 at 9:30 pm

Hi Russell,
Thanks for the quick response! I wasn’t “suggesting” a feature, I just thought I might have missed something. So now that you think it might be a cool option…I think maybe a simple check box next to each image [in the tags section] to designate whether or not to make it the main thumbnail would work. Upon clicking that thumbnail image in the website the user would be taken to the current JQuery gallery for that set. This feature would be useful for Flickr Galleries, Flickr photosets, or Flickr Tagged Photos.
Thanks for your ear….
Jef

Russell August 22, 2011 at 7:36 pm

Hi Jef,

Glad you like the plugin. I like your suggestion

Unfortunately there is not currently a feature to show a single thumbnail image for each gallery/album. Some more thought is required on exactly how this might work.

What should happen when the thumbnail is clicked – should it go to Flickr directly or to another page on the site?

How should it choose which thumbnail to display? The latest, the first, or should you be able to choose?

Should this feature apply to Flickr Galleries, Flickr photosets, Flickr Tagged Photos?

Jef Gunion August 22, 2011 at 7:24 pm

Hi,
I’m really liking your plugin! It’s exactly what my clients site needed!
However, I’m wondering how to display only one thumbnail image for each gallery on the site, but when clicked references all the others in the same set. I have everything tagged properly, but the client only wants to display a single image for each gallery – of which there are about 15. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!!

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