Slickr Flickr Help

Hi Dave,

Many apologies for the problems; you have unearthed a bug.

I changed the Slickr Flickr CSS file to set the height for the various sizes of slideshow: small, medium, m640 and large however I did not set a size for original as the original size is not unknown until the photos are actually fetched. In the previous version “original” photos were the same size as medium photos.

The quick fix to this is to edit slickr-flickr.css to restore its previous settings by changing the lines

[css]
.slickr-flickr-slideshow.landscape.medium { height: 400px }
.slickr-flickr-slideshow.portrait.medium { height: 525px }
[/css]

to

[css]
.slickr-flickr-slideshow.landscape.medium, .slickr-flickr-slideshow.landscape.original { height: 400px }
.slickr-flickr-slideshow.portrait.medium, .slickr-flickr-slideshow.portrait.original { height: 525px }
[/css]

If you have Slickr Flickr Pro Edition you can just specify the slideshow height by specifying height=”400″ or whatever your required height is.

In the next release, I will come up with a better solution for non Pro users that does not involves changing CSS.

Hi Rebecka,

Please see the tutorial http://www.slickrflickr.com/2126/improved-flickr-slideshow-sizing-and-scaling/ ; the slideshow on the right has descriptions.

As regards the spacing then this is down to the size of your photos; you can accommodate photos of less than standard height with a little knowledge of HTML( as shown in the tutorial) or use CSS if you have the standard edition of Slickr Flickr. However if you upgrade to the Pro edition you can just specify a “height” parameter which is the easiest solution.

Regards

Russell

Bart,

IE prototype/JQuery/ ‘getElementsByTagName(‘*’) problems are equally horrible for me too!

Your questions are really nothing to do with Slickr Flickr and are to do with other stuff on your site. I am sorry but I have a ton of work to do, so can’t really get into debugging these problems. If I had a one line solution I would surely give it to you, but I am afraid the issues involve a considerable bit of digging around to make any headway.

My suggestion would be to uninstall whatever plugin is adding the prototype library, if you do not need it, or at least prevent it from loadin gon pages where you have a gallery.

As for the flash loader then you need to put a background image in the header instead of the swf and use a function on document.ready to load the swf file.

I hope that helps.

Regards

Russell

The error is on line 4821 of prototype.js – this is nothing to do with Slickr Flickr.

Slickr Flickr uses jQuery not prototype.

You need to dig around Google to find prototype /jQuery conflicts specific to Internet Explorer.

Do you need prototype installed on this page?

Hi,

Just to clarify, if you click the gallery before the page has finished loading the lightbox does not work however if you wait until the page is completely loaded it works okay.

It is the flashfader at the top of the page that is killing the performance of your site. With the fader it takes 30 seconds to load, without the fader I think it will be about 7 seconds.

If you really want to use the fader I would put a static photo in the header, load the rest of the site first, and only then load the fader in the background.

Regards

Russell

HI Lusy,

I have never seen this problem before; the items parameter always works.

Please send me an email at russell [at] diywebmastery.com with the exact code in your widget [this is better than use a comment here as WordPress can change the exact text in subtle but significant ways]

Thanks

Regards

Russell

Hi Lusy,

Thanks for your feedback.

The items=4 should work fine. The only reasons it would not would be it the quotes marks around the 4 were the wrong type of quotation marks. Your page is offline so I cannot verify this one way or another.

Please either use single quotes or double quotes but not either backticks or left quotes and right quotes.

Ryan,

Your photo set is now visible – fixing the safe content settings has worked – see http://www.slickrflickr.com/support/flickr-safe-search-is-blocking-access-to-photos/

Clear your WordPress RSS cache in Slickr Flickr Admin Settings to make WordPress reread the photos from Flickr

Have you set up a safety level on that photoset?

Here is some info about safe search: http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/

Ryan,

When I try and view your photo set on Flickr it runs into a Safe Search restriction problem

Right now Slickr Flickr just returns “safe” photos. I plan do address this in the next release by implementing authenticated connections with allow fetching of “moderate” and “restricted” photos

Hi Mars,

The dynamic drive script is designed for use with a static slideshow – I am afraid you would need to get into some programming to integrate this using either jQuery or PHP to build the paypal buttons within a slideshow that is dynamically generated using Slickr Flickr.

The difference between the lightbox script and my suggestion earlier is that the script is using a custom attribute called “paypalform” while with my suggestion the paypal form is passed within the title attribute and hence there is no need to change the lightbox code itself. However, either approach should work

If you want to use the Dynamic lightbox script then you would tell Slickt Flickr not to use its own LightBox by setting up LightBox Plus as the selected LightBox Option in Slickr Flickr Admin settings, add the dynamic drive lightbox script in the header of each page, and write some jQuery script to go in the footer that inserts the paypalform attribute to each anchor which has a “rel” attribute of ‘lightbox”.

Regards

Russell

Hi Mars,

Having thought about this a bit more I have written up your idea as a suggestion for a new Slickr Flickr feature.

Please see http://www.slickrflickr.com/support/add-paypal-button-to-the-lightbox/

regards

Russell

Hi Mars,
Not right now. Slickr Flickr uses a public connection to Flickr and the safe search is only available on an authenticated connection.

I plan to add the safe_search setting in the February release of the Slickr Flickr Pro edition where the parameter “safe_search” takes a value of 1 – safe, 2 – moderate or 3 -restricted. Since this feature is only available for authenticated connections to Flickr, it will also necessary for the user to enter their secret key in Slickr Flickr Admin settings in order that an authenticated connection can be created.

Regards

Russell

Hi Matteius,

Thanks you for your feedback

Your validator may be applying too strict rules – check out http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-length – this permits percentages in height and width attributes. These attributes scale the image as a percentage of the container. The HTML produced for the images is correct however there are a number of other HTML validation errors which I must address.

In the next release I will ensure that the HTML has no validation errors according tp the following HTML header


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">


Therefore your w3c validator should pass the code

If you would like more help then please sign up for Slickr Flickr Pro and I can help out.

However, all you need to do is tweak the CSS a bit. You should be able to do this yourself in a very similar way to what I did for the padding-left. Learning a very small amount of CSS means you can fine tune the layout yourself so it is pixel perfect to your taste.

Hi, it is not centered but your theme CSS has padding that pushes the gallery to the right

#content ul { padding-left: 25px; }

Override this padding in your theme CSS file as follows:

#content .slickr-flickr-gallery ul { padding-left: 0px; }

This ensures your theme does not pad the Flickr gallery

Hi Mollie,
Thanks for your question which not the least bit wacky. The answer is No – there is just a WordPress version. Like most WordPress plugins, it relies on a whole bunch of WordPress features such as the database, the cache, the RSS feed handling, the short-codes framework, the administrator functions, etc.

Rather than build all this stuff as standalone it may be possible to create Drupal or Joomla plugins for Slickr Flickr, as these platforms already have a similar infrastructure to WordPress.

Do you want Slickr Flickr as standalone or do you want to run it in another platform?

If you do want to go the complete standalone route the best approach might be to go for a pure JavaScript solution.

Regards

Russell

Hi Tim,

Further to our offline conversation, just a note to indicate that I have implemented an automatic failover so if the Flickr API returns no photos then Slickr Flickr will try the Flickr RSS feed. I will put this into an release of Slickr Flickr Pro in a couple of days once I have completed testing. This approach will return up to 20 photos which is better than none.

Regards

Russell

Hi JG,
A word of caution: do not cut and paste my code verbatim as Wordpress comments can add in extra spaces and change quotation marks. For example below it seems to put an extra space between the “<” and the “?” at the start of the php command

Hi JG,

On this site I have a Slickr Flickr Slideshow in the header – this is the Slickr Flickr Pro Upgrade slideshow (do you like the transparency?

Here is the code I used


<div id="header-right">< ?php echo do_shortcode('[slickr-flickr link="http://www.slickrflickr.com/upgrade/" captions=off type=slideshow tag="Slickr Flickr PRO Features" size="original" height="180"]'); ?></div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>