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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

With Slickr Flickr Standard Edition you can control the size of a slideshow by placing it in a ‘DIV’ element that constrains the slideshow dimensions. In the Pro Edition you can get the same affect more easily using the ‘height’ and ‘width’ parameters. This feature is particularly useful when you have odd sized photos (not […]

With Slickr Flickr Pro you can change the border color that appears when the cursor is moved over a thumbnail without having to change CSS. This allows you to easily change the border highlight color to reflect the color of your WordPress theme. The following examples show that the border color can be set on […]

Slickr Flickr standard edition returns up to 50 photos from a photoset but with Slickr Flickr Pro you can display the entire photoset. In this example we are fetching 100 photos about the String Band and Maroon Festival on Carriacou: The code looks like this: slickr-flickr search=”sets” id=”49536551@N05″ set=”72157626323561341″ type=”gallery” items=”100″ Maroon String Band Festival […]

Slickr Flickr standard edition returns up to 50 photos per slideshow but with Slickr Flickr Pro you can display an unlimited number of photos in a slideshow. In this example we are fetching 70 of photos from the Sunset group: The code looks like this: slickr-flickr search=”groups” id=”90631221@N00″ type=”slideshow” items=”70″ Sunsets Group Slideshow (70 photos)