Slickr Flickr Tips

The page covers some best practices when creating slideshows and galleries in order to get great results.

DOs

  • On Flickr give all your photos a short but meaningful title – 3-7 words typically
  • On Flickr choose tags that are short and meaningful and remember to place double quotes around tags that are more than one word e.g “South Africa”
  • When displaying a medium size slideshow (picture width of around 500 px) on the ‘content’ part of the page then choose only landscape photos.
  • When displaying a small size slideshow (picture width of around 200-250 px) on the ‘sidebar’ part of the page then choose either all landscape photos or all portrait photos.
  • Only use the orientation=”landscape|portrait” setting for slideshows
  • Only use the captions=”on|off” setting for slideshows
  • Only use the size=”original” setting for galleries. Galleries can handles different sizes of photos well while slideshows cannot.

DON’Ts

  • If you have not got a Flickr API key then don’t set the “items” to a number bigger than 20. Flickr only returns the 20 most recent photos with the specified tag as its fetch photos using an RSS feed from Flickr
  • If you have entered your Flickr API key then don’t set the “items” to a number bigger than 50. Flickr only returns the 50 most recent photos using the API – however if you want to fetch more than 50 photos then check out Slickr Flickr Pro
  • Don’t use the size=”large” option unless you have checked that you actually do have “large” photos in Flickr for all photos you have tagged for the slideshow or gallery. The slideshow will display a ‘Not Found” slide for any photos that are not available at the large size.

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Russell December 26, 2011 at 11:59 am

Eduardo,

Yes, multiple tags are supported.

- use tag=”tag1,tag2″ to get photos with both tags

- use tag=”tag1,tag2″ tagmode=”any” to get photos with either tag

Eduardo Wöetter December 26, 2011 at 7:25 am

Is it possible to have 2 tags?
Example: 2011, jan

Russell May 13, 2011 at 2:08 pm

Ryan, thanks for the suggestion.

My thought is to add links on the Slickr Flickr parameters documentation so that each feature links to an example of its use.

Do you think that would work?

Ryan May 13, 2011 at 1:53 pm

wicked thanks! Might want to put that in the demo for the slideshows. The demo there didn’t include any descriptions (as I remember anyways).

Thanks again for a great plugin!

-Ryan

Russell May 13, 2011 at 12:42 pm

Hi Ryan,

Use:

descriptions="on"

This works in the slideshow, the galleria, the pre-installed lightbox and most 3rd party lightboxes

Ryan May 13, 2011 at 11:14 am

Hi There,

I’m planning to use this in a site I’m designing, but I can’t figure out if it’s possible to show the actual full description from the image on Flickr. I see it’s easy to show the title. It would be perfect if the whole description could be shown as well. Is that possible?

Thanks!

-Ryan

Ron June 10, 2010 at 2:28 am

THANKS Russell!!

Russell June 10, 2010 at 12:27 am

Ron said:

I am thinking that I would just like the group centered on the page as opposed to left justified. I am not really concerned about the number in the last row. Can you specify the number of images per row?

Russell said:

Yes you can set the Photos per row

See my Slickr Flickr Demos page where I center your gallery with 3 photos per row using the code:
<center>
[slickr-flickr type="gallery" photos_per_row="3" tag="wedding" id="47149656@N05"]
</center>

Ron said:
I am also interested if the centering could be done in slideshow mode….

My flickr ID: 47149656@N05

Thanks for all your assistance!

Russell said:
I centered the slideshow using 10% margins are either side using the following code

<div style="margin: 0px auto; width:80%">
[slickr-flickr type="slideshow" tag="wedding" id="47149656@N05"]
</div>

This slideshow is also shown on the demonstration page

Russell June 9, 2010 at 11:07 am

Hi Ron,

Thanks for you question. There are couple of different ways of looking at centering the gallery.

Taking a look at your gallery of 11 photos, you could consider the gallery centered if you have 6 photos in the top row and 5 in the second row or have 8 in the top row and the 3 photos in the short second row appear in the middle of the row rather than be left aligned

With Slickr Flickr is is possible to have the first form of centering but I am not sure if it is possible with the second. Please let me know which form of centering you wanted?

If you supply me your Flickr ID and the tag you have used I will set up a demonstration page on this site

Regards,
Russell

Ron Short June 9, 2010 at 3:09 am

Is it possible to align (ie center) the gallery?

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