With Slickr Flickr Pro you can retrieve as many tagged photos as you like into a single gallery, slideshow or galleria.
To make use of the feature you need to set 2 parameters
- use_key=”y”
- items=”nnn” – where nnn is the number of photos you want to fetch
The extended fetch feature is activated when you specify the number of items that is greater than 50.
However, before using the extended search facility you need to have completed the Slickr Flickr Pro set up
- Obtained and saved your Flickr API Key in Slickr Flickr Admin settings
- Saved your Slickr Flickr Pro Licence Key in Slickr Flickr Admin settings
Below is a video taking through the process step by step. The example I have chosen is a galleria of photos tagged with “Roma”.
Example of a Galleria With 60 Tagged Photos
[code]slickr-flickr type="galleria" size="m640" tag="Roma" use_key="y" items="60"[/code]
I have tried using this code:
slickr-flickr tag=”picnik” id=”21879932@N02″ type=”galleria” size=”m640″ border=”on” start=”random” items=”100″ use_key=”y” captions=”on” autoplay=”on” cache=”off”
to display a random selection of my pictures tagged with the picnik tag. There are over 500 of them on my site and they have been tagged with that tag for months & even over a year on some. As you can see on my site: http://www.angelangiekc.com/wordpress , I seem to be unable to get any pictures to display using the “tag” short code. I have tried it with the type=”slideshow” and with the tag set to several different tags from my site. I seem to be unable to make any of the tags pull into a slideshow on my site.
The slideshow that IS functioning on the site was done using this code:
slickr-flickr id=”21879932@N02″ search=”sets” set=”72157626414639897″ type=”slideshow” border=”on” start=”random” use_key=”y” items=”72″ captions=”on” autoplay=”on” cache=”off”
My flickr account is not new. It is, in fact, at least 3 years old. Can you help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?
Hi Angela,
The issue is that your Flickr ID is wrong: it is 35082889@N05.
I pasted http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelangiekc/tags/picnik/ into the page http://idgettr.com to get your Flickr ID.
Please change your ID on your Slickr Flickr Admin settings
Best Regards
Russell
hi–
Which takes priority, the Settings setting for photos, or the one in the gallery?
If I have the one in Settings set to something like 500, then I don’t need to add this in each gallery do I? It will return up to 500 photos automatically.
I don’t know how many photos I will end up with some tags, so hoping I can just do the main one on the settings page and put a big number in there. Can you explain when and why you would use this feature versus the settings page?
Thanks
Hi Gail,
On the Slickr Flickr Pro Admin settings, you set the default values to use if they are not specified in the slickr-flickr command.
Sometimes, let’s say in a sidebar or footer widget, you may want to display a slideshow of just a handful of small photos so you will want to specify say,
"slickr-flickr tag="something" size="small" type="slideshow" items="6"You can set default settings up to 500 however it will take a while to load that many and it is unlikely that any visitor to your site would browse through that many photos in one sitting. So, from a usability point of view I tend to use smaller sets of photos.
In the next major release I will be implementing a “paged gallery” which will allow the user to have a “page” of photos on the screen with navigation links below for first page, next page, previous page, last page, etc