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

Updated by Russell on July 24, 2011.

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Russell April 2, 2013 at 10:35 am: This is probably about timing, the Yoast code needs to run after Slickr Flickr has replaced the short code with the photos.

So the question is really for Yoast: “how to make it run AFTER short codes have been translated.”
Bashwust April 2, 2013 at 7:24 am: I am using the plugin by Yoast for my SEO in wordpress but when I have a slickr flickr gallery on my page it says that there are no images on the page.
Is there a way that I can make Yoast see the images and does this mean that google can’t see them either?
Thanks
Russell March 9, 2013 at 7:05 am: Hi Colin,

My understanding was that Flickr only returned safe photos when using public access – see http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html.

safe_search (Optional)
Safe search setting:
1 for safe.
2 for moderate.
3 for restricted.
(Please note: Un-authed calls can only see Safe content.)

Were you asking for the purpose to be able to show “moderate” or “restricted” photos?
Colin Canfield March 8, 2013 at 10:13 pm: I was wondering if you had any ideas on implementing “safe” levels for the searches? It would be good to be able to filter the general photostream in that way.

Thanks Colin
Russell March 5, 2013 at 1:14 pm: Hi Calla,

Thanks for your question.

Firstly, you need to chose a WordPress theme that is mobile responsive. Right now the slideshow and galleria is responsive but the popped up lightbox is not. I will be replacing the lightbox in the next release with one that is mobile responsive

Regards

Russell
Calla Lee March 5, 2013 at 11:58 am: Is it possible for the plugin to auto detect screen size and resize the images to make it more mobile friendly? Thanks so much!
Russell February 28, 2013 at 6:27 am: Hi Kelly,

The slickr-flickr short code is not being translated by WordPress which means either that Slickr Flickr is not activated, or there is a typo in the slickr-flickr command.

Check the first point by going to Plugins and verifying the Slickr Flickr is activated; check the second by viewing the slickr-flickr command in the Post editor in HTML/text editor (as opposed the Visual Editor) – you may have extra characters between the [ and the slickr-flickr.

If you post your URL I will be able to tell if Slickr Flickr is installed
kelly February 28, 2013 at 12:52 am: My slickr flickr is not working after latest wordpress update. Instead it is just showing [slickr-flickr tag="front" align=center size=m640].
I tried changing the gallery option to “gallery not required”, and that did not seem to help.
Russell February 22, 2013 at 6:40 pm: Craig, try adding align=”left” or align=”right” to wrap text around it.
Craig February 22, 2013 at 4:44 pm: Hey, love the plugin! I’m just wondering if it’s possible to put it in-line with text on a page. Currently I can’t seem to get it to do so, no matter the size or where I put it on my page. Is there a function I’m missing or can I change something in the css to get this to work?
Russell February 15, 2013 at 9:14 am: @Vic, “yes”.
This is possible with Standard or Pro edition although you’ll get more support from Pro. Users typically use Post Custom Fields to hold the “tag” or the set_id. You can either use do_shortcode and pass a string or call slickr_flickr_display::display($args) where you have set up $args in your code with required info. See http://www.slickrflickr.com/support/can-slickr-flickr-be-directly-embedded-in-php-code/
Vic Smith February 14, 2013 at 3:44 pm: I am trying to decide whether I need to purchase your Pro version. Right now my main issue is whether I can pass variables into the Slickr flickr call. If so, then I can generate galleries based on elect code and not have to hard code them. So, can I pass a variable, e.g. a tag, into the short code calls within a php environment? All I need now is a “yes” or “no”
Narayan February 11, 2013 at 4:03 pm: Russell,

Thanks, that helps immensely. I’ll look forward to that next release

Cheers.
Narayan´s last [type] ..Joinery Bench
Russell February 11, 2013 at 12:28 pm: Hi Narayan,

Apparently you can use the minus sign to exclude tags. For example, tag=”cheese,-blog” shows photos tagged with cheese but not with blog.

I tried this and it did not work however I dug around Flickr help and found that there is an undocumented feature that makes the above operate correctly if you set tagmode=”bool”

Unfortunately Slickr Flickr validates the tagmode as being either “all” or “any”. In the next release it will allow “bool”.

The only restriction with this solution is that Flickr must have at least one “include” tag: it will not accept just exclude tags e.g. tag=”-blog”

Regards

Russell
Narayan February 11, 2013 at 9:16 am: Hello. I’m a Pro user. I’m wondering if there was a way to exclude photos which contain one or more specific tags?

Here’s the scenario: I currently use SlickrFlickr to show thumbnails for my photostream in the sidebar of my blog. I also use Flickr to host images for my blog. So I’ll often run into this situation where the thumbnails in the sidebar are exactly the same as the ones on the page.

What I’d love to do is add a “blog” tag to all the photos I use inside blog posts, then have that SlickrFlickr gallery in the sidebar show all other photos from my photostream.
Narayan´s last [type] ..Joinery Bench
Russell February 10, 2013 at 8:50 am: Hi Laura,

Sorry that was my mistake, I checked the code and both Standard and Pro editions only do thumbnails up to size=”m800″ (800 by 600px). I will add “large” in the next release into both versions.

Or if you can’t wait for the next release, then at your own risk, add the following line into the switch statement in the slickr_flickr_display::set_thumbnail_params() function after the line that starts case “m800″:

case "large": $thumb_width = 1024; $thumb_height = 768; $thumb_rescale = true; break;

Regards

Russell
Laura February 10, 2013 at 7:23 am: Hi Russell,
Thanks a lot: the advice with the set number works really well, I now understand it better too.

Regarding the large thumbnail size: is this only available in the Pro version? I can now change it from square to small to thumbnail to medium, but that is the largest size: when I say ‘ large’, it shows squares again. The photos on Flickr are 1024px wide (or high) and in Admin I have set the size to large as well. Is there something else that I should take into account?

Thanks again, Laura
Russell February 10, 2013 at 5:54 am: Hi Laura,

For performance reasons Flickr replicates photos and indices across its different servers and occasional suffers from lost or delayed updates. This means that different users can see slightly different views or in this case a Flickr API call gives a different response to a Flickr RSS call. Also your first call is sorting by the date the photo was taken and the second call sorts by the date the photo was tagged and has the most recent tagged photo first. I have found that the most reliable way to achieve all the required photos in a specific order is to place them in a photoset as the API returns the photos in exactly the same order as you order them in the photoset on Flickr. Also photosets seem to be more generally reliable than tagged photos.

In Slickr Flickr you can achieve the vertical display of photos by choosing a large thumbnail size which will work as long as your original photos are large enough and all of the same orientation:

Adding lightbox=”none” thumbnail_size=”large” thumbnail_scale=”88″ would scale 1024×768 to 900×675.

You could add thumbnail_captions=”on” if you wanted captions beneath the photos.

If you have different widths of photos such as a mix of portrait and landscape then the effect may not be desired as the portrait photos will not be full width on the page. This approach will not crop photos just resize them.
Russell February 10, 2013 at 5:20 am: Hi Tom,

The missing photos seems to be due to the URLs which have a suffix of “_l” which is not documented on Flickr – see http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html for the known sizes. I presume this is because you are requesting “original size” photos. These are likely to be simply too big to display on a normal monitor.

For example, thumbnail http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2774/4165252640_c51c101452_s.jpg has a clickthrough to http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2774/4165252640_c51c101452_l.jpg. This larger photo is inaccessible – either too large to display or possibly private?

I recommend you change the default size in Slickr Flickr Admin to be “Medium” or “Medium 640″.

Also you have 3 lightboxes installed: FancyBox, ColorBox (aka LightBox Plus) and ThickBox. You are best off choosing one lightbox and sticking with that.

Regards
Laura February 10, 2013 at 5:05 am: Hi Russell,

I have two questions:
1.
When I use the API key to show pictures (http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&api_key=cd808c054ab87111a8f2faea6eb02c06&user_id=50977367@N02&sort=date-taken-asc&tags=London2013&per_page=50), one photo from the sequence does not show (this is photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauraderkse/8450658031/in/photostream), but when I use it with use_key=”n”, it does show: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=50977367%40N02&tags=london2013&lang=en-us&format=rss_200. It happens with other tags as well (e.g. theabrechtje)

2.
Is it also possible with Slickr Flickr (Pro) to show pictures like on:
http://www.darioendara.com/nl/portfolio/bruiloften/sanne-dirk-oss/? It would be the way I would like to present my pictures, but so far, I’m not having much luck. The text does not have to be in between the first and second photo btw, just showing all pics would be great already!

Thanks, Laura
Laura´s last [type] ..Londen, Engeland