Displaying Unlimited Flickr Photos

With Slickr Flickr Pro there is an extended search feature that allows you to fetch potentially unlimited numbers of photos.

With this feature enabled, Slickr Flickr Pro makes multiple requests to Flickr using your Flickr API key, fetching the information about your photos in batches of 50 at a time. This all happens in the background so what you see is all the photos you requested in your gallery or slideshow.

Current Limitations

In the current release, 1.19 this features only works for:

• tagged photos
• group pool photos
• favorites

To make use of the feature you need add your Flickr API key with the Slickr Flickr Admin Settings and then the items parameters

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.

Example of a Gallery With More Than 50 Group Photos

This gallery has 84 photos.

[code]
slickr-flickr type="gallery" size="m640" search="groups" id="35237093786@N01" use_key="y" items="84"
[/code]

Example of a Slideshow With More Than 50 Photos

[code]
slickr-flickr type="slideshow" tag="roma" orientation="portrait" use_key="y" items="60"
[/code]

Example of a Galleria With More Than 50 of My Favorite Photos

[code]
slickr-flickr type="galleria" size="m640" search="favorites" use_key="y" items="60"
[/code]

Future Plans for Sets and Friends Photos

My plan, in the coming months, is to expand the extended search capability to other areas

• Photosets
• Friends/contacts photos

What About Performance?

I also intend to introduce Slickr Flickr caching which will improve performance.

Existing WordPress RSS caching caches the raw feed of photos – what Slickr Flickr caching will do is cache the slideshow, gallery or galleria in its ‘final’ form. This saves processing time which can be significant if there are many photos on the page.