The ability to display a small number of random photos from a larger collection had been requested by a few users. It required a bit more development than just making a random selection as it needed to implement a caching strategy in order to perform well and remain within Flickr’s terms of service. It does […]
Slickr Flickr Pro 2.1 – With Multiple Galleria Themes On The Same Page
Slickr Flickr Pro 2.1 comes with the latest galleria 1.4.2, an alternative faster caching mechanism, plus some maintenance updates and bug fixes. Multiple Galleria Themes In previous releases of Slickr Flickr, you could use different galleria themes on different pages so you might use the classic theme on most pages on your site, but use […]
Slickr Flickr Pro 2.0 – New Mobile Responsive LightBox
Slickr Flickr Pro 2.0 comes with a new mobile responsive lightbox, the latest galleria 1.35 and uses https for connections to Flickr. New LightGallery LightBox The LightGallery is a light weight mobile responsive lightbox. It is available under the Apache 2.0 licence and hence can be included in Slickr Flickr under the GPLv3 licence. This […]
Private Flickr Photos
Slickr Flickr Pro allows you to establish an authenticated connection to Flickr and this allows you to fetch private as well as public photos. You might want to use this feature on a membership site or on password protected posts. The following two requests are to fetch all the photos in a photoset that has […]
Random Flickr Photos
When displaying a slideshow in a sidebar widget on every page on your blog, the slideshow will show the same photos. What would be nice is to have some variety. With Slickr Flickr Pro you can fetch a larger number of photos and only display a subset of them in a random order. Slickr Flickr […]
Multiple Flickr Galleries
Flickr has the concept of a “Gallery” where you can build a collection of up to 50 of your favorite photos from other peoples photostreams. Some users found this limitation of 50 a problem and hence wanted the ability to be able to group multiple galleries together. This Slickr Flickr Pro features allows you to […]
Publication Date Flickr Photos
This feature is aimed for people writing a travel diary where they are writing and taking photos but do not have a lot of time to tag or organize the photos. The feature allows you to fetch photos from Flickr where the date the photo was taken is the same as the publication date of […]
Flickr API Failure and Automatic Recovery
For a period of around 4 months between November 2010 and February 2011 the Flickr API had some performance issues which meant that it would return a “no photos available message” when its servers were overloaded. This problem did not affect Flickr RSS feeds. To get around this problem Slickr Flickr Pro has an automatic […]
Clear Cache Automatically
WordPress will cache photos fetched from Flickr for up to 12 hours, so this means you my have to wait a while for any new photos before they appear on your WordPress blog. Normally it is okay just to wait until the cache expires and your photos will show up. However, if you were covering […]
Priority Support Forums
Slickr Flickr Pro offers you access to two private Members Forums: a priority support forum and a suggestions forum. Priority Support Forum Get your support issues resolved quickly typically with 24 hours but often with a couple of hours if I am online at the time. The support will cover anything to do with the […]