Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin ChangeLog

The Slickr Flickr WordPress plugin makes it easy to display selected photos held in your Flickr account either as gallery, a galleria or as an unbranded slideshow in posts, pages, or sidebar widgets.

Slickr Flickr can be downloaded from downloads.wordpress.org

I created the plugin because there were no other plugins that allowed unbranded slideshows of Flickr photos to be easily added to WordPress sites. This site should help you make the most of the plugin and get support if you need it.

Plugin Changelog (Version History)

Version	Date	Description
2.8	08-Feb-2021	Internationalisation and WordPress 5.6
2.7	26-Apr-2020	Updated for SimplePIe 1.5.4, Galleria 1.6.1, PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4
2.6	10-Aug-2018	Updated for Galleria 1.5.7, PHP 7.1 and WordPress 4.9.8
2.5.4	15-Sep-2015	Updated for WordPress 4.3
2.5	28-May-2015	Add options to hide or replace error message when no photos are available
2.4.1	09-Apr-2015	Use `text="phrase" id=""` to search for photo by text across all of Flickr
2.4	24-Feb-2015	Added support for displaying single photos
2.3.3	05-Jan-2015	Fixed phpFlickr custom caching bug
2.3.2	04-Jan-2015	Fixed phpFlickr error by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false – this affected the display of photosets
2.3	31-Dec-2014	Updated for WordPress 4.1; added mobile responsive slideshow; updated to Galleria 1.4.2; flickr_link_target now works for Galleria; added class parameter to make it easy to wrap text around a slideshow using standard WordPress classes alignleft or alignright; added Slickr Flickr Newsfeed to the plugin admin panel
2.0	27-May-2014	Added Responsive LightBox Gallery to replace prior non-responsive lightbox; included Galleria 1.3.5 with improved performance and error handling; uses https for Flickr API, significant refactoring of code to adhere more closely to WordPress plugin coding and filenaming standards. Now licensed as GPLv3 since Lightbox Gallery is under Apache 2.0 licence
1.44	06-Feb-2013	Updated Galleria to 1.2.9, and extended galleria theme timeout from 20 to 60 seconds; allow links in photo descriptions; added flickr_link_title and flickr_link_target to have better control over any links to the original photos on Flickr; respects flickr_link setting when lightbox is set to none and hence you can have unlinked images not wrapped in <a tags
1.43	22-Sep-2012	Links and descriptions in captions supported for FancyBox, Highslide, Pretty Photo and ThickBox; updated Galleria to 1.2.8.
1.42	06-Jul-2012	Improved support for premium galleria themes; split out Slickr Flickr Pro into a separate plugin from Slickr Flickr so Slickr Flickr does not do any license checking
1.41	25-Jun-2012	New Flickr Photo Sizes.
1.40	27-Apr-2012	Included Gallera 1.2.7; fix bug in HTML captions.
1.39	22-Feb-2012	Corrected missing file reference and set debug to false on galleria to suppress “Could not extract width/height from image:” warning message that some users are still encountering.
1.38	22-Feb-2012	Replaced non-compliant LightBox with BSD licensed LightBox by Warren Krevenski
1.37	30-Dec-2011	Remove dependency on latest version of WordPress
1.36	21-Dec-2011	Includes Galleria 1.2.6, an option to set the default photo size, minified JavaScript for improved performance, ability to select a specific page in a multi page gallery plus a couple of minor bug fixes.
1.35	27-Sep-2011	Includes a modified version of Galleria 1.2.5. that applies the galleria code patch for the “Could not extract width/height from image:” error that affects some browsers; fixes an HTML error on the admin page which caused the Save button to disappear in some circumstances.
1.34	09-Sep-2011	Added Galleria 1.2.5; changed galleria to use thumbnails from Flickr to improve load time.
1.33	25-Aug-2011	Added support for single and double quotes in photo titles and descriptions; reduced amount of white space below a slideshow image if captions are off; added new parameter, “bottom”, to control the spacing at the bottom of a slideshow, galleria or gallery; added feature to galleria 1.0 to hide the start and stop navigation links if you specify pause=”off”; added ability to specify a default value for galleria 1.2.3 options on the admin settings panel; updated Slickr Flickr Admin Settings to support standard WordPress metabox features: screen options and panels than can be closed or hidden; and for SLickr Flickr Pro users, added support for private photos.
1.32	26-Jul-2011	Fixed bug with display of height and width of galleria; added option for WP Pretty Photo LightBox to support a gallery
1.31	22-Jul-2011	Fixed bug with display of original size photos; added option to control period of caching random photos; and introduced quarterly billing option for Slickr Flickr Pro users
1.30	18-Jul-2011	Improved support for Galleria themes such as folio, minimal, widescreen, twelve by removing all slickr flickr CSS that used to affect the galleria and instead using galleria options to set the galleria size – galleria themes are now loaded dynamically rather than statically; added support for multiple galleries per page when using the ShutterBox lightbox; fixed bugs with display of large Galleria photos, with passing descriptions to the lightbox even when they are not required, with empty slideshow link parameters, with the autoplay slideshow option; added option to display a random selection of photos from a larger set (Pro Edition only)
1.29	1-Jun-2011	Fixed problem with notification that a new version of the plugin is available; added support for Highslide LightBox; improved support for ThickBox to allow use of both Flickr Links and Descriptions; modified Galleria to allow it to support folio as well as classic theme(skin); fixed bug in formatting of photoset photo descriptions; and added support for grouping photos from multiple Flickr Galleries (Pro Edition only)
1.28	28-Apr-2011	New option search=”galleries” gallery=”your gallery id” to display a Flickr gallery – this now automatically converts from the public gallery id to the compound gallery id so you no longer have to lookup the full compound gallery id; new option restrict=”orientation” to filter photos so only those of the desired orientation are displayed; new admin option not to load Galleria at all if you don’t use this form of display; new admin option to select the Galleria theme; updated Galleria script to version 1.2.3; new admin option to allow jQuery to be in either the header or footer (this fixes mootools loading issue with Featured Content Gallery Plugin); new annual payment option and also a lifetime single payment option for Slickr Flickr Pro Support Membership
1.27	7-Apr-2011	Fixed bug that converted Flickr ID to lower case
1.26	4-Apr-2011	Fixed bug that “items” was not being used to limit to number of photos when more than 50 were being selected; moved all jQuery code into the footer; converted some parameters to lower case – DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE DUE TO BUG FIXED IN 1.27
1.25	28-Mar-2011	Added new parameters “page” and “per_page” to allow selection of photos by page; “thumbnail_border” to allow override of thumbnail hover color (Pro Edition only); “target” for slideshow link so it can open a new window; “options” to give support for Galleria 1.2 options; tweaked Galleria Classic skin to improve its appearance on light colored sites; moved javascript into footer to improve page load times; fixed bug with Flickr Link when displaying a gallery of a photoset and in the link to the RSS feed when no photos are returned
1.24	27-Feb-2011	Added lightbox=”none” option to link thumbnails directly to Flickr without a lightbox; added nav=”above\|below\|none” to allow control of galleria navigation menu and updated readme.txt to indicate support for WordPress 3.1.0
1.23	23-Feb-2011	Fixed bug introduced in version 1.22 to do with the “items” parameter which could mean that too many photos were being returned
1.22	19-Feb-2011	Added Flickr commons license selection; search by date taken and date uploaded; search by tag for group photos; improved slideshow sizing; added galleria 1.2 option; increased photoset search from 20 to 50 photos; added unlimited search for photosets (Pro version); and added search by post publish date (Pro version)
1.21	25-Jan-2011	Added automatic failover from Flickr API to Flickr RSS if no photos are returned (Pro Edition only); added option to disable captions in the lightbox; added support for machine tags (e.g geo tags); unbundled ShadowBox; improved support for larger slideshows; improved CSS to allow IE6 and IE7 to display gallery of large thumbnails; fixed bug with slideshow transitions
1.20	16-Jan-2011	Added support for Flickr links in the photo captions in the galleria display; support for Evolution LightBox and PrettyPhoto LightBox; better instructions for using third party lightboxes; slideshow “transition” parameter to override the default transition of 0.5 seconds (Pro version); “align” parameter to make it easier to center a gallery or slideshow; improved handling of large thumbnails; improved error reporting when attempting to fetch more than 20 photos from a photoset and fixed display issues where there is only a single photo in the slideshow
1.19	18-Dec-2010	Reinstated automatic use of API key if more than 20 photos are requested; use https protocol for js and css files if admin site is being run securely; removed warning when checking for updates; added cursor pointer/hand when hovering over the slideshow to show it is clickable; and added Slideshow LightBox display in Pro edition
1.18	13-Dec-2010	Added the missing images folder
1.17	13-Dec-2010	Fixed problem with getting photo descriptions and also with using multiple tags; added a “descriptions” class so that there is less white space beneath the slideshow and created Slickr Flickr Pro edition with Priority Support Forum and Bonus Features
1.16	25-Oct-2010	Added Medium 640 photo size, size=”m640″; and moved support site to //www.slickrflickr.com
1.15	18-Oct-2010	Renamed Flickr class to avoid conflict with other plugins; fixed bug with thumbnail size; added parameter use_key=’y’ to force use of api key (this fixes the issue with missing descriptions when not using the api key); allow tag not to be specified so most recent photos are returned
1.14	2-Aug-2010	Added parameter search=photos\|favorites\|friends\|groups\|sets to allow more than just tagged photos to be selected; added api_key option to allow selection of up to 50 photos
1.13	2-Jul-2010	Added pause=on option for the slideshow so you can pause or resume the slideshow by clicking the photo, added autoplay=off option for the galleria so you can stop the galleria slideshow playing automatically, fixed bug with captions always displaying in the galleria, default value “wp_” as the table prefix if none is defined, inhibited display of html on the tooltip popup on placing the mouse over a thumbnail by using the Flickr photo title as the image title attribute and the Flickr photo description as the inage alt attribute
1.12	30-Jun-2010	Fix bug with captions not displaying in the galleria and also allow more than one galleria slideshow per page
1.11	29-Jun-2010	Fixed javascript bug when using other lightboxes
1.10	29-Jun-2010	Consolidated script and stylesheet files, fixed bug with the speed of play of the galleria slideshow, added option to control whether galleria slideshow plays automatically
1.9	08-Jun-2010	Add missing CSS file for admin settings
1.8	07-Jun-2010	Integrate with other LightBoxes, large thumbnails
1.7	16-May-2010	Added admin settings feature to clear RSS cache
1.6	09-May-2010	Fix to the CSS for the “small” slideshow when in portrait orientation
1.5	08-May-2010	Fix bug regarding alignment of gallery
1.4	08-May-2010	Added many new features: slideshow/gallery combo, a clickable link for the slideshow, multiple tag selection, an autoplay option for the lightbox, ordering of slides by date, title or description, gallery captions, slide descriptions and links to Flickr on the lightbox, fixed number of phots per row in the gallery
1.3	08-May-2010	Added support for Flickr groups and random start slideshows
1.2	06-Mar-2010	Fixed readme.txt format
1.1	06-Mar-2010	Fixed issue with slideshows in sidebar text widgets
1.0	26-Feb-2010	Initial Release