Let’s say I want to search for photos about the Empire State Building. On Flickr I would just type in this phrase in the Flickr search box. With Slickr Flickr we use the text parameter and also specify id=”” so the search looks across all of Flickr and not just my own Flickr account So […]
Flickr Text Search
With Slickr Flickr 1.45 you can now search your photos by text. The search term looks for partial matches in: the photo title the photo description the photo tags An example would be to search my photos tagged with France for the term “dessert” to find the delicious sweet French cuisine I enjoyed during a […]
Load Javascript in Footer For Earlier Page Display
Current best practice for WordPress plugin developers is to load javascript in the footer as this allows the page content to appear sooner for the visitor. I implemented this feature in Slickr Flickr 1.25 however a few users had problems so I have introduced a more flexible solution where you can now choose whether or […]
How To Filter Flickr Photos By Orientation
Slideshows and galleries can look a little inelegant if you mix photos of different orientations: i.e. they contain a mix of portrait (3×4) and landscape (4×3) photos. The new restrict parameter aims to get around this problem by filtering out photos that do not match the restriction. In the current release; only a single restriction […]
Flickr Paged Gallery
Slickr Flickr now supports paged galleries. This allows you to select a page of photos that are not necessarily the latest photos. The parameters to use are called “per_page” and “page” which refer to the number of entries per page and and the page number respectively. For example, to get photos 41 through 60 from […]
Flickr Galleria Slide Transitions Now Supported By Slickr Flickr
With the release of version 1.25 Slickr Flickr now supports Galleria 1.2 options. These allow you to configure around 20 or so galleria options that control slide transitions, thumbnail cropping, image cropping, scaling, margins, captions, image preloading, etc. The parameter to use is called “options” and the list of parameters is expressed in the same […]
Display All Flickr Photos In a PhotoSet
This tutorial is an example of a how to display more than 50 photos in a photoset. This feature is only available in the Slickr Flickr Pro Edition from version 1.22 onwards. Without the Pro edition you can still display up to 50 photos from a photoset if you enter your API key or just […]
Display Flickr Photos for Post Publish Date
This tutorial is an example of a how to display a gallery of photos for the publication date on the post. You will typically make use of this feature in a travel diary where you want to have the same day’s photos associated with the diary entry. This feature is only available in the Slickr […]
Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin Supports Galleria 1.2
The new release of Slickr Flickr has an option to use the new Galleria 1.2 which has a number of enhancements such as a carousel and skins. The full set of Galleria 1.2 features documentation gives you instructions on how take full control of the many new image sizing, transitions and layouts. In the next […]
Improved Flickr Slideshow Sizing and Scaling
Slickr Flickr slideshows now automatically resize themselves in the space provided and are better at handling sets of photos with a mix of landscape and portrait orientation images. No fiddling with CSS is required Flickr Video Tutorial for Customizing the Slideshow Size For the purposes of this tutorial I will split the main content section […]
How To Search Flickr Group Photos By Tag
Flickr Group Pool Photo Search By Tag The tutorial shows you how to search group pool photos on Flickr using a tag. You may want to use this feature when you a running a Flickr Group and want to be fetch a selection of photos based on the tag. For tagging to be manageable I […]
How To Search Flickr Photos By Date
Flickr Photo Search By Date The tutorial shows you how to search for photos on Flickr based using a date range and a selection of either the date the photo was taken, or the date the photo was uploaded to Flickr. The date taken is useful where you have a camera that is configured with […]
How To Search Flickr Photos By License
Coming soon in Slickr Flickr 1.22 Flickr License Types The tutorial shows you how to search for photos on Flickr based on one or more of seven licenses. The first license is the most restrictive and the last license has no restrictions at all. This feature is particularly useful when you want to use other […]
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 […]
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 […]
How To Resolve Flickr RSS Caching Problems
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 […]
How To Display Photos From a Flickr Photo Set
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 […]
How To Display More Than 20 Photos From A Flickr Group
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 […]
Using A Flickr Slideshow To Promote Affiliate Products
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 […]
Making a Flickr Gallery or Slideshow With More Than One Tag
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 […]
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