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 folio on your gallery page. You could display several gallerias on the same page but they all had to use the same galleria theme; either classic, azur, miniml, twelve, folio or fullscreen.
From version 2.1 onwards this restriction is removed so each galleria instance can have its own theme.
In the page content section you might use the twelve theme to style a large display of photos tagged with France as follows:
slickr-flickr tag="france" items="20" size="m640" type="galleria" galleria_theme="twelve"
And in a text widget in the sidebar you might use the classic theme to display some smaller photos of Paris as follows:
slickr-flickr tag="paris" items="10" start="random" size="small" type="galleria" galleria_theme="classic"
Performance Improvements
Slickr Flickr Pro now has the default caching options set to use its own custom caching based on WordPress transients rather than using either a flickr_cache database table or a series of cache files to store the responses to Flickr requests. This should offer improved performance.
Better Presentation
The plugins admin pages have been updated to use tooltips and the dashicons font to make the user interface cleaner.
Additional CSS has been added so photos with long descriptions present better in the lightbox and in the galleria.
Maintenance Updates
The latest phpFlickr library is included. This version uses HTTPS to make API calls to Flickr.
Bug Fixes
Original Size Photos Not Displaying
The issue with the original size photos not displaying was due to missing CSS. This has been remedied.
Random Photo Caching
When displaying random photos the caching mechanism was not working. It was creating a new transient for each view of the site. This has been fixed.
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