This tutorial is for Slickr Flickr Pro Edition users who can customize the highlight color for the gallery using the “thumbnail_border” parameter of the slickr-flickr command. Non Pro users can achieve the same effect by modifying the CSS. Terminology Note: the highlight color lights up the border of each thumbnail as you move you mouse […]
Flickr Galleries - examples and instructions
This section contains examples of Slickr Flickr galleries, some of which I have constructed for demonstration purposes, others from users who had questions or issues running Slickr Flickr. Nearly always the gallery run well here and the users has a problem with either a conflicting plugin or with their Theme's stylesheet CSS overridden Slickr Flickr CSS. A small change to the theme CSS is usually sufficent to resolve the problem
Library Of Congress Baseball Photos
Here is a gallery of Library of Congress Photos that are tagged with baseball [code]slickr-flickr id="8623220@N02" type="gallery" tag="baseball" items="14"[/code]
Using Portrait Thumbnails on a Flickr Gallery
This example demonstrates that it is important to ensure that you set the orientation if you have a gallery of portrait thumbnails and you have chosen not to use the default thumbnail size which is 75px ‘square’ Normal Square Thumbnails This renders well. [code]slickr-flickr type="gallery" photos_per_row="6" tag="Roma Portrait"[/code] Large Thumbnails Landscape With larger scaled thumbnails […]
Using Slickr Flickr With Other LightBoxes
Slickr Flickr comes pre-installed with 3 different choices of LightBox as well as the ability to integrate with a number of third party LightBoxes. Some of the third party LightBoxes do not support all Slickr Flickr’s features; namely photo descriptions (descriptions=”on”) and links to Flickr in the photo title (flickr_link=”on”). I will endeavour to support […]
How To Center a Gallery of Thumbnails
The Slickr Flickr Gallery inherits its alignment from its container (the HTML element that contains the “div” with class slickr-flickr-gallery). If the page is left aligned then so is the gallery; if the page is centered then so is the gallery, if the page is right aligned then so is the gallery. In this example […]
Slickr Flickr Showcase
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]
Slickr Flickr 1.13 Flickr User Galleries
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 […]
Helping Users With Slickr Flickr Problems
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.
Customizing Slickr Flickr Gallery using CSS
The default CSS settings in Slickr Flickr galleries work fine on a normally sized site with a white background. But did you know you do have the ability to alter fonts, sizes, styles, margin and paddings by amending the stylesheet elements? The default style is defined in a CSS file, slickr-flickr.css, and is located in […]
Simple Slickr Flickr Gallery
The simple gallery using the defaults is suitable for inclusion in the content area of a post or page. It displays thumbnails and when the visitor clicks on a thumbnail the photo is displayed at ‘medium’ size which is around 520px by 390 px in an overlaid popup window known as a lightbox. The gallery […]
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