The newest version of Flickr Gallery adds two important things that people have asked for. They wanted to show collections and they wanted to be able to choose which tabs to show. To enable the collections tab, just go into your Flickr Gallery settings page and select it from the list of tabs. For now, it’s a very simple piece of functionality. Clicking on the collection name or icon will take your visitors to the Flickr page for the collection. I haven’t made this very complex for now, because there is no telling how deep a collection would go, and my UI options are fairly limited when working on a WordPress page or post.
Flickr Gallery 1.3
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I love the plugin! However, I have a couple issues:
1) Is there a way to change the dimensions of the images? I tried size=small and size=medium and nothing changed. Also, the photosets don’t center in the div. How can I fix that?
2) When I click on an image to enlarge it, I get an extra, smaller “flightbox” div on the left. Nothing comes up in that box; it just keeps showing the loading animation. How can I get rid of that?
I would really appreciate your help. I’d love for this to work for my site!
Right now there is no way to do that in the plugin. The grid view would get messed up if you used any sizes besides the square thumbnail as it is expecting them to all be the same height.
You could put some padding on the flickr-gallery div.
Something in your theme is probably causing the lightbox to get set up twice.
I’m having an issue with Flickr Gallery, seems the plugin is displaying each photo twice on this page:
http://extremepb.mjmfx.com/gallery/
I’m just using the basic shortcode [flickr-gallery] and only once. It also disregards changes to the ‘Number of photos to display’ setting. Any ideas?
By the way, the site is here.
Thanks for the response, Dan. Do you think you can take a look at the source code for this page and see if you notice anything strange? I’d really appreciate it because this has been driving me crazy for hours. I’m thinking it has something to do w/ the way Wordpress automatically loads its built-in jQuery library which conflicts with my own copy that I load. However, if I take out my copy of jQuery, jScrollPane ends up not working. I hope this makes sense. Anyway, thanks for your work on this plugin and I’ll continue to look for a way to get this to work.
thanks for the plugin. I’m having an issue trying to get a single image to load. I can get my photoset and well as recent working, but when i try a single image I get “unknown size: small” returned.
I tried:
[flickr]http://www.flickr.com/photos/lakewenatchee/2240683011[/flickr]
and just the number
[flickr]2240683011[/flickr]
These images are in a photo set. Does that make a difference?
When I inserted that shortcode into my site, it loaded the photo just fine. Are you still having problems with that? Could you send me a link to a page where that error is happening?
well it is working now. Maybe on the 23rd there was an issue with flickr???
Thanks.
Another question:
Is it possible to pull an individual photo passed on tags or date. Essentially on my picture of the day post, I want to show the full/large image of the latest image in my set.
I can get a single image by putting a tag on it and searching for it but that is with the flickr-gallery tag. is there one for an individual image?
Thanks for the great plugin. Got a quick question…
Is there a way to use a shortcode to put the HTML into the post? I remember using the plugin a few months ago and I could quickly put a set into a post and it would convert to HTML? (Unless I’m remembering wrong.) But now the shortcode stays the way it is, so if I disable the plugin for example, the post won’t show anything. Is there a shortcode or fast way to post sets in HTML? Thanks!
Check my plugin’s page or the readme file. It has an example for inserting a photoset into your page or post.
I just upgraded. When I click on the Sets, it does not drop down and display the images.
Hi,
I thought I had posted earlier, but it seemed it didn’t go through. I upgraded to 1.3 and the issue I’m having now is that the Photoset does not drop down to a gallery. Actually when you click on it, nothing happens. And randomly, it may go to the flickr’s page.
Very nice plugin, thanks a lot.
I would like to add a “gallery” page in my website (you know the new feature recently introduce by Flickr).
Is it possible ?
I’m not sure what you want. It has the ability to insert galleries into pages. Check the usage information on this site, the WordPress extend page or the readme file.
Hi Dan,
Any quick fix to fix the issue I’m having? I didn’t revert back because I wanted you to see the error at http://www.kvibe.com.
I hope you can help thanks.
Some time in the next 15 minutes, try downloading the development version. The version number listed in flickr-gallery.php should be 1.3.1-dev. That copy should have a fix for you. Let me know if it works.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-gallery/download/
Hi Dan,
I updated but it’s still not working unfortunately.
Hi, I ended up reverting back to 1.2.8 for now. It seems that 1.2.9 has the same problem as the latest version. I would love to have the collection feature in there though. I’ll stay posted if you post any new fixes. Thanks Dan for your work.
I have been looking for a plugin like this so was testing it in my development area today. For the most part it works as expected but I am unable to get the photoset to work:
[flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157605870230826"]
When I use a shortcode like this I don’t get any output. Any suggestions on how to track down the problem?
Also – any plans to support Flickr Slideshows?
Is that photoset public? If it is private, you need to authenticate the plugin to Flickr.
Ok so I am working with your Flickr Gallery 1.3 and I am having trouble getting the tabs to work and the lightbox to work.
Here is my gallery: http://blog.sapoentertainment.com/photo-test/
Thanks
Sean
Your blog isn’t loading Javascript from my plugin. Make sure that you have the <?php wp_head() ?> call in your theme’s header.php file.
I figured it out although it took me a while – there was a an HTML tag wrapped around the photoset ID. Once I removed the tag, it worked fine. It wasn’t obvious until I switched the Editor from TinyMCE over to the HTML view.
Great plugin – I have added the LightWindow plugin to achieve the desired slide show functionality with a link back to the Flickr slide show. You can see an example here:
http://u12girls.caslambassadors.org/photos/eskilscupen/day-1-stripes/
I cannot seem to get the lightbox to work. I installed it according to the directions and am inserting the [flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157605870230826"] in the blog post. It puts in the pictures but goes to flickr when I click an image. I checked and the is in my themes header. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Your theme is including jquery.js twice. This overwrites everything it included before and breaks my plugin.
i tried to look for the jquery.js in my theme and I didnt see it. I even switched themes and the lightbox still isn’t working. It is taking me directly to flickr. thanks for your help.
Sorry if there’s on obviously solution for this but I can’t figure out why my photos are not popping up in Lightbox.
Also, even though I am requesting 30 photos from my photo stream, only 11 show up.
The client’s gallery I am working on is at: http://noelvalei.com/gallery/
The lightbox is not working because you have a Javascript error that is unrelated to my plugin. It’s either your theme or another plugin.
The plugin is showing all 11 public photos in your photostream. You need to make the other ones public or authenticate the plugin to Flickr.
I have Flickr Gallery running successfully on another blog (a slightly older version of both Flickr Gallery and Wordpress…just haven’t updated), but I am setting up a new one and can’t seem to get the authentication token to generate from Flickr. When I click on “Generate” it takes me to the Flickr site, I authorize it, and then when I come back to my admin panel for Flickr Gallery, it says “Done authenticating at Flickr” but it won’t fill in the code. Any thoughts?
Also, on my other blog (the slightly older version) after I installed Flickr Gallery, the handy little Flickr button showed up in my posting window that allows me to choose the photos I want to publish on my blog post from my Flickr account. So, far with this new blog and new version of Flickr Gallery, that button has not shown up. Does it have to do with the authentication token or am I missing something else?
Thanks!
Well, miraculously, after trying it nine thousand times, I suddenly have the authentication token, so that seems to have fixed itself.
However, I’m still looking for that handy little Flickr button in my posting window…
Cool, thank you! Will donate as soon as I get paid!
My gallery (http://blog.sapoentertainment.com/photo-test/) does not seem to function right. On the set tab it does not drop down and show the set do I have to do something to make it do that?
Thanks
Sean
It is probably being messed up by your theme or your other plugins. If you disable them temporarily, does the gallery work?
I disabled all of my plugins and theme and I still could not get the photosets tab to work.
When clicking on a gallery image is there a way to change the default loaded image size to large instead of medium? I went digging through the code, but wasn’t able to spot an obvious way to change this.
Not currently. This would require an extra call to the Flickr API for each photo, which would take forever if I tried to do it in the PHP. I plan to make it possible at some point in the future, though.
Hi Dan, just wanted to say thankyou for such a great plugin. I reviewed a number of Flickr plugins for Wordpress and yours came out top by a mile and is the only one I now use.
Well done and keep up the great work
Toby Drysdale
Thanks! I’m glad you like it.
Yep, that was the problem, thanks man
Hi Dan, love the plugin. I’ve used it on a couple other blogs. I’m just having a hard time getting the lightbox functionality to work on this one. I’ve tried disabling the other plugins one-by-one and I’ve also switched it over to the default theme. Any idea what might be the cause? Thank you!
http://mikkic.com/photos/
jQuery is being loaded a total of 3 times. Both your theme and one of your plugins (Comment Validation) are loading it incorrectly. It’s possible that you’ve got other plugins loading it incorrectly, but those are the obvious two.
Problem solved. You rock! Thank you!
Is there any way of showing the “large” flickr version instead of medium?
Like they do with this plugin:
http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php
Thanks!
Not right now. When I wrote this, it was a lot harder to get at whether a large version existed for a batch of photos. I will probably add an option to this effect sooner or later.
Hi Dan,
can you figure out, why Lightbox is not working on my blog? Unfortunately I can’t.
Thanks!
Daniel
You’ve got a whole lot of Javascript running on your page and something is probably interfering with my plugin. If you disable your other plugins and switch the the default theme, the lightbox should work. Once you’ve confirmed that, you can turn things back on one at a time to find out which plugin (or theme) is messing it up.
Flickr Gallery has become an integral part of my website. I edited my theme so that I only need to enter a shortcode to create decent posts for new photo uploads. Thanks for all the hard work Dan, I just made a small donation, hope it helps.
Thanks for the donation!
Is there any way to randomize the photos when the plugin loads them?
Thanks for all your work! Great Plugin!
No. The Flickr API does not allow you to pull a set of random photos.
It’s me again. I disabled everything and used the wordpress theme and still could not get the photosets tab to work properly. When I click on the image or the photo set title it does not load below it. Can you please help.
Thanks
Sean
Hi Dan. I’d really like to include a widget that uses flickr-gallery. Obviously I could just put a shortcode in the text widget and enable in functions.php. The problem with this method is that it still lists the number of photos set in the admin panel.
How difficult would it be to override the number of photos from within a shortcode tag? I’d also like to disable pagination in the widget.
Any ideas?
If you set a per_page argument in the shortcode, it should limit it.
Hey Dan
Thanks for a neat plugin!!! I’m wondering, if I somehow can have the pictures shown in the large format instead of medium, when they are shown in the lightbox??
All the best, Morten
Not in the current version.
You must be thinking of another plugin. To insert photos into a post with my plugin, you have to use shortcodes. There are examples of these in the readme file or on the plugin’s page here on this site or on the WordPress.org page.
Oops! Sorry Dan! I didn’t even realize I had another plugin installed on that other site. So many options to choose from I forgot which ones I used for which things!
Either your theme is not loading Javascript properly, or you have a plugin that is interfering with it. It appears to me that your theme needs a <?php wp_head() ?> call in your theme’s header right before the </head> tag.