Slideshows and galleries can look a little inelegant if you mix photos of different orientations: i.e. they contain a mix of portrait (3×4) and landscape (4×3) photos. The new restrict parameter aims to get around this problem by filtering out photos that do not match the restriction. In the current release; only a single restriction […]
Ways To Embed a Flickr Gallery on your WordPress Site
This section explores the various features of Slickr Flickr that allow you to embed a Flickr gallery or multiple galleries on a page, post and sidebar widget. It covers captions, descriptions, thumbnail size, gallery alignment and choice of lightbox.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Slickr Flickr Showcase
This page shows a clients gallery demonstrating various Slickr Flickr formatting options Simple Gallery [code]slickr-flickr id="54295903@N07" type="gallery" tag="black"[/code] Centered Gallery With 3 Photos Per Row [code]slickr-flickr id="54295903@N07" type="gallery" photos_per_row="3" align="center" tag="black"[/code] Gallery with Large Thumbnails and Captions Sorted By Title [code]slickr-flickr id="54295903@N07" type="gallery" align="center" thumbnail_size="small" thumbnail_scale="80" thumbnail_captions="on" tag="black" sort="title"[/code]
Slickr Flickr Plugin News May 2010
Hi Slickr Flickr Users, This is the first in a series of monthly updates on news with Slickr Flickr. It covers what happened in the month just ending and what is in the pipeline for next month. New Dedicated Slickr Flickr Website At the start of May I set up the Slickr-Flickr sub-domain of my […]
Making a Flickr Gallery or Slideshow With More Than One Tag
Here are the instructions to how to make a gallery or slideshow that uses more than one tag. This is done by using the tagmode attribute. There are two possible options: tagmode=”all” – only selects photos that have all the tags you specify tagmode=”any” – selects photos that have any of the tags you specify […]
How To Use Slickr Flickr To Create a Slideshow Or Gallery
Log in to your Flickr account and tag all the photos you want to display on a particular page of your wordpress site. If your tag is more than one word make sure you place double quotes around the tag e.g "South Africa" Back on your wordpress site put into your post, page or sidebar, […]
Simple Slickr Flickr Gallery
The simple gallery using the defaults is suitable for inclusion in the content area of a post or page. It displays thumbnails and when the visitor clicks on a thumbnail the photo is displayed at ‘medium’ size which is around 520px by 390 px in an overlaid popup window known as a lightbox. The gallery […]
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