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Russell is a WordPress Plugin developer and WordPress consultant specializing in membership sites and payment gateways. He has over 20 years experience of software development and project management in the corporate sector but is now having a lot more fun working with small businesses globally.

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Slickr Flickr Version 1.17 Has Left The Building

December 13, 2010 by Russell Leave a Comment

Flickr WordPress Plugin Slickr Flickr version 1.17 was released at last! It contains a number of bug fixes, and a new Slickr Flickr Pro edition that offers priority support for those that want personal help with using the plugin. The free version has an extensive FAQ, common issues list and free video tutorials so most […]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News Tagged With: Flickr RSS, flickr slideshow, Photo Descriptions

How To Resolve Flickr RSS Caching Problems

November 25, 2010 by Russell 3 Comments

For more helpful videos check out Slickr Flickr Videos One of the most common issues with Slickr Flickr is to do with caching. You would update Flickr but it would take what seemed at age before those changes appeared in your Slickr Flickr gallery or slideshow on WordPress. This was down to WordPress caching the […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: Flickr RSS

How To Display Photos From a Flickr Photo Set

October 29, 2010 by Russell 16 Comments

Slickr Flickr is limited to displaying only the 50 most recent photos from a photoset – This restriction is removed if you purchase Slickr Flickr Pro Displaying Up to 20 Photos in A Set Using Flickr RSS If you want to display 20 photos or less from a set then you can use the simpler […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: Photoset

Slickr Flickr 1.15 Gallery

October 24, 2010 by Russell Leave a Comment

Buraski builders An example using 3 tags to fetch up to 50 photos. [code]slickr-flickr id="50099381@N03" tag="additionsremodeling3,additionsremodeling1,additionsremodeling2" tagmode="any" type="gallery" thumbnail_size="square" size="medium" items="50"[/code] Using New Parameter use_key=”y” To Fetch Descriptions A couple of months ago descriptions stopped working when fetched using the RSS feed. Fortunately they are still available via the API. The descriptions appear under the […]

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Slickr Flickr Showcase

September 27, 2010 by Russell 2 Comments

This page shows a clients gallery demonstrating various Slickr Flickr formatting options Simple Gallery [code]slickr-flickr id="54295903@N07" type="gallery" tag="black"[/code] Centered Gallery With 3 Photos Per Row [code]slickr-flickr id="54295903@N07" type="gallery" photos_per_row="3" align="center" tag="black"[/code] Gallery with Large Thumbnails and Captions Sorted By Title [code]slickr-flickr id="54295903@N07" type="gallery" align="center" thumbnail_size="small" thumbnail_scale="80" thumbnail_captions="on" tag="black" sort="title"[/code]

Filed Under: Flickr Galleries Tagged With: flickr gallery, thumbnail

How To Display More Than 20 Photos From A Flickr Group

August 5, 2010 by Russell 2 Comments

In this example I will use two new features of Slickr Flickr 1.14 that allow more than 20 photos to be displayed from a Fiickr Group api_key (entered in Slickr Flickr Admin Settings) search = “group” (added as new attribute) Go to Slickr Admin Settings and enter and Save your Slickr Flickr API Key View […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr tutorial

British Royal Family Now On Flickr

July 26, 2010 by Russell Leave a Comment

Yesterday the British Royal Family put almost 700 of their photos on Flickr. The photos cover Royal public events, meetings and audiences dating back over 150 years. New images will be added as more engagements and events take place. The Queen has been active in social media recently on Twitter and YouTube account and Flickr […]

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Slickr Flickr 1.13 Flickr User Galleries

July 5, 2010 by Russell 14 Comments

Gallery Of Group Photos For Marta This gallery was concerned with displaying a Flickr group’s photos with the inclusion of a link back to the original photo on Flickr, however the flickr link was not appearing even though she had set flickr_link=”on”. On investigation, it was apparent Slickr Flickr was ignoring the flickr_link setting. It […]

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Slickr Flickr 1.9 Demos

June 10, 2010 by Russell Leave a Comment

Slideshow For Mina [code]slickr-flickr type="gallery" tag="lettuce" id="51190907@N07"[/code] Gallery For Iris Goddess [code]slickr-flickr tag="imperialpalace" id="27585503@N02"[/code] Galleria For Rachael [code]slickr-flickr id="50096851@N02" captions="off" tag="art" type="galleria" size="small" thumbnail_size="square" items="5" thumbnail_scale="50" start="random"[/code] Slideshow For Dan [code]slickr-flickr type="slideshow" tag="firestation" id="48038368@N02" orientation="portrait" size="small"[/code] Centered Gallery For Ron [code]slickr-flickr type="gallery" photos_per_row="3" align="center" tag="wedding" id="47149656@N05"[/code] Centered Slideshow For Ron [code]slickr-flickr type="slideshow" tag="wedding" id="47149656@N05" align="center"[/code]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News

Slickr Flickr Release 1.8 – with a choice of LightBox

June 7, 2010 by Russell Leave a Comment

Slickr Flickr Version 1.8, the number one WordPress Plugin for unbranded Flickr slideshows, has just been released with some great new features. Slickr Flickr New Features In response to requests from its users, Slickr Flickr has three new features which allow you to set up up your slideshows and galleries to appear the way you […]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News Tagged With: galleria, lightbox, thumbnail

Slickr Flickr Plugin News May 2010

May 30, 2010 by Russell Leave a Comment

Hi Slickr Flickr Users, This is the first in a series of monthly updates on news with Slickr Flickr. It covers what happened in the month just ending and what is in the pipeline for next month. New Dedicated Slickr Flickr Website At the start of May I set up the Slickr-Flickr sub-domain of my […]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News Tagged With: flickr gallery, flickr slideshow

Using A Flickr Slideshow To Promote Affiliate Products

May 20, 2010 by Russell 4 Comments

This tutorial is about using a Flickr Slideshow to promote an affiliate product. In the example I’m using the Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin to prepare a slideshow featuring the Canon Powershot A1100 Camera. The steps involved are Take photos of the product Upload the photos to Flickr and tag them Write a product review on […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To, Flickr Slideshows Tagged With: flickr slideshow, flickr tutorial

Making a Flickr Gallery or Slideshow With More Than One Tag

May 20, 2010 by Russell 6 Comments

Here are the instructions to how to make a gallery or slideshow that uses more than one tag. This is done by using the tagmode attribute. There are two possible options: tagmode=”all” – only selects photos that have all the tags you specify tagmode=”any” – selects photos that have any of the tags you specify […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr gallery, flickr tutorial

How To Sort Your Flickr Slideshow Photos

May 20, 2010 by Russell 12 Comments

This video tutorial explains how to sort your Flickr slideshows or galleries either by date, by title or by description.

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr slideshow, flickr tutorial, sorting photos

Featuring Photos from Other Flickr Photographers

May 20, 2010 by Russell 9 Comments

The video below walks you through the process step by step Here are the instructions to create a Flickr gallery that features another photographer’s work. It will demonstrate three new features of the Slickr-Flickr WordPress Plugin attribution – credit the photographer flickr_link=”on” – link back to the photo on Flickr descriptions=”on” – show descriptions of […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr slideshow, flickr tutorial

Helping Users With Slickr Flickr Problems

May 16, 2010 by Russell 44 Comments

Russell uses this page to display the results of the various tests he does to help solve user issues.

If you contact us, we’ll use this page to demonstrate your slideshow working for you, so that you can see it functioning properly, and we can help you to fix any issues you may have.

Filed Under: Flickr Galleries, Flickr Slideshows

How To Add A Flickr Slideshow To Your WordPress Sidebar

May 13, 2010 by Russell 5 Comments

For more videos to get the most from your Flickr photos check out Slickr Flickr Slideshow and Gallery Video Tutorials Here are the instructions to add a Flickr slideshow to a WordPress sidebar widget: Upload your photos to Flickr and tag them Login in as an administrator on your wordpress site Click on Appearance and […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr slideshow, flickr tutorial

Simple Slideshow-Gallery Combo

April 9, 2010 by Russell 22 Comments

This simple slideshow/gallery combo using the defaults is suitable for inclusion in the content area of a post or page or in a sidebar widget. It uses the ‘medium’ size photos which are around 520px by 390px on Flickr. It also uses the galleria options to add a lightbox on clicking the large photo. The […]

Filed Under: Flickr Galleria Tagged With: flickr slideshow

How To Use Slickr Flickr To Create a Slideshow Or Gallery

April 9, 2010 by Russell 288 Comments

Log in to your Flickr account and tag all the photos you want to display on a particular page of your wordpress site. If your tag is more than one word make sure you place double quotes around the tag e.g "South Africa" Back on your wordpress site put into your post, page or sidebar, […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr gallery, flickr slideshow

How To Use Slickr Flickr Admin Settings

April 9, 2010 by Russell 73 Comments

How to Set Up The Plugin Defaults If you don’t want to specify all the settings for every slideshow or gallery you can set up some defaults as follows: Go to the “Settings” section, and choose “Slickr Flickr” Enter your Flickr Id (the id of the form 12345678@N00) Fetch and save your Flickr API Key […]

Filed Under: Flickr How To Tagged With: flickr tutorial

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