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Flickr Plugin News of Updates to Slickr Flickr

This section covers Slickr Flickr Plugin Release notes, advice about bug fixes and instructions about using new features.

Slickr Flickr 2.7 Release

April 25, 2020 by Russell Leave a Comment

Slickr Flickr 2.7 was released on April 26th 2020. The SimplePie version bundled with WordPress produces “non-numeric date” warnings under PHP 7.x. This release of Slickr Flickr includes the latest version of SimplePie which does not produce warnings. It also supports the latest versions of the Galleria, WordPress and PHP. Includes SimplePie 1.5.4 Includes Galleria […]

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Slickr Flickr 2.6 Release

August 10, 2018 by Russell 12 Comments

Slickr Flickr 2.6 was released on August 10th 2018. It is a maintenance release to support the latest versions of the Galleria, WordPress and PHP. Includes Galleria 1.5.7 Supports PHP 7.x Ensures all photo access is under HTTPS

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Slickr Flickr 2.5 Release

May 27, 2015 by Russell 9 Comments

Slickr Flickr 2.5 was released on May 28th 2015. Its main focus was on reporting when no photos are available. Use silent=”on” to suppress the error message indicating there are no photos available (for use on individual slickr-flickr commands) Use message=”Sorry, there are no photos” or something similar, to add your own error message indicating […]

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Slickr Flickr 2.4 Displays Single Photos

February 24, 2015 by Russell 5 Comments

Yesterday, a Slickr Flickr Pro user had problems trying to display a single photo. The photo was in a photoset and he was trying to display it using the start parameter which starts a slideshow at a specific position in a list of photos, however it was not picking the right photo. Finally, after some […]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News Tagged With: Flickr API

ClickMagick – Link Tracker

December 30, 2014 by Russell

Take a free trial of the most feature-rich link tracker, link cloaker, link redirection and click manager you have ever experienced.

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Slickr Flickr 2.3 Release

December 30, 2014 by Russell

Slickr Flickr 2.3 was released on December 30th 2014. Its main new feature is focussed on improved mobile responsive behaviour New mobile responsive slideshow which can be activated by setting responsive=”on” on each slickr-flickr command or by setting the Mobile responsive option on the Slickr Flickr settings page Updated to Galleria 1.4.2 which allows multiple […]

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Links In Photo Descriptions

February 6, 2013 by Russell Leave a Comment

From Slickr Flickr 1.44, the plugin’s lightbox will display links in photo descriptions. Prior to this release it “cleaned” the photo descriptions which removed links. Here is an example of a couple of photos with long descriptions containing multiple links. This is the code: slickr-flickr tag=”sculpture” descriptions=”on” type=”gallery” size=”m640″ flickr_link=”on” flickr_link_title=”Click to see the photo […]

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Helping Slickr Flickr Users

April 3, 2012 by Russell Leave a Comment

Epixmedia Xmas Photos slickr-flickr id=”76579178@N05″ tag=”xmasparty” items=”10″ type=”gallery” flickr_link=”on”

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Slickr Flickr 1.33 Reduces The Big White Bottom Margin

August 25, 2011 by Russell Leave a Comment

Version 1.33 of Slickr Flickr, released 25th August 2011, has a few new features in both the standard and Slickr Flickr Pro editions. In the standard edition the focus was mainly on the periphery of the slideshow, gallery or galleria: controlling the amount of white space, and in the Slickr Flickr Pro edition the big […]

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Slickr Flickr 1.30 Has Enhanced Galleria Support

July 19, 2011 by Russell 2 Comments

Version 1.30 of Slickr Flickr, released 18th July, has a few new features in both the standard and Pro editions plus a few bug fixes. In the standard edition the work was focussed on supporting the new galleria themes and in the Pro edition the big new feature is ‘random photos’. New Features All Galleria […]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News Tagged With: flickr slideshow, galleria, lightbox

Slickr Flickr 1.28 Supports New Galleria

April 28, 2011 by Russell 6 Comments

Version 1.28 of Slickr Flickr was released today with a few new features and some improvements and a choice of payment options for Slickr Flickr Pro. The bulk of the work was related to improving the integration with the latest version of the Galleria jQuery script. Galleria now has a carousel, a choice of themes […]

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Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin Version 1.25 Released

March 28, 2011 by Russell 2 Comments

Version 1.25 of Slickr Flickr has a few new features, some improvements and a number of bug fixes. New Features Added new parameters “page” and “per_page” to allow selection of photos by page. See Flickr Paged Gallery Added new parameter “thumbnail_border” to allow override of thumbnail hover/highlight color (Pro Edition only). See Flickr Gallery Highlight […]

Filed Under: Flickr Plugin News Tagged With: customizations, flickr photo gallery, galleria

Flickr WordPress Plugin Gallery Has Direct Flickr Linking

February 28, 2011 by Russell Leave a Comment

I released Slickr Flickr Version 1.24 today with a couple of fixes and two new features Added notification that WordPress 3.1.0 is supported Added correct version number – (I messed up release 1.23 by forgetting to update the version from 1.22 to 1.23 – the new version is 1.24) Added lightbox=”none” to allow you to […]

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Slickr Flickr 1.22 Rocks

February 21, 2011 by Russell Leave a Comment

The new version of the Flickr WordPress plugin, Slickr Flickr Version 1.22, was released on Saturday, February 19th 2011. There are eight new features, five in the standard edition and three in the Slickr Flickr Pro edition Search tagged photos by date taken or date uploaded Search photos by licence Search group pool photos by […]

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Automatic Failover From Flickr API To Flickr RSS

January 25, 2011 by Russell Leave a Comment

The latest version of this popular WordPress Flickr plugin, Slickr Flickr Version 1.21, was released on January 21st 2011. I brought forward the date of the release as I have included a new feature that helps deal with the current issues with the Flickr API. The intermittent Flickr API problem occurs as a result of […]

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

Slickr Flickr Version 1.20 Supports More LightBoxes

January 16, 2011 by Russell 2 Comments

The latest version of this popular Flickr WordPress plugin, Slickr Flickr Version 1.20, was released on January 16th 2011. The changes are: Added support for links back to Flickr in the galleria captions Added support for Evolution LightBox and PrettyPhoto LightBox Added better instructions for using third party lightboxes with Slickr Flickr Added slideshow “transition” […]

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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

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 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]

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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

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New To Flickr and are missing photos?

Just a reminder that for new Flickr accounts it takes 3-5 working days after you upload your fifth photo before you photos are made available by Flickr for searches and also to Slickr Flickr.

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