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Skype Galleria 1.2.3 was released on April 14th and this is now bundled with Slickr Flickr. This article describes how to use the new themes/skins that can be applied to the galleria to change its appearance. With Slickr Flickr 1.28 you can choose one of three galleria options in the Slickr Flickr Admin Panel. Galleria 1.0 […]
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Slickr Flickr WordPress Plugin Version 1.25 Released
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 […]
Flickr Gallery Highlight Color Customization
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 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 […]
Flickr WordPress Plugin Gallery Has Direct Flickr Linking
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 […]
Slickr Flickr 1.22 Rocks
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Automatic Failover From Flickr API To Flickr RSS
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 […]
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]
Slideshow or Galleria with a Single Photo
Prior to version 1.20 of Slickr Flickr there were display issues when there was a single photo. In slideshow the photo flickered (and not in a good way) and in the galleria only the thumbnail appeared but not the large photo. Slickr Flickr was incorrectly assuming that a slideshow must have more than one photo. […]
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 […]
Slickr Flickr Version 1.20 Supports More LightBoxes
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” […]
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 […]
Flickr Photos Not Available – at least not yet
There is always a delay between publishing photos on Flickr and their being publicly available. In the past this delay varied arbitrarily between 1 and 15 minutes so it was not a problem. However, from around December 26th Flickr users were reporting much longer delays of 24 hours, 48 hours and more. This is a […]
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 […]
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