Updated: Flickr Photo Album (0.95)

18 Comments
01 Apr

Hey Internet, just wanted to let y’all know that the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress has been updated to work with the latest WordPress 2.5 release, no foolin’! Go download it now at the usual spot >

Note: If you had used the Lightbox display feature to display your photos, you’ll find that it will no longer work. Please stay tuned for another update, which will add generic support for any number of image display libraries (such as Lightbox, FaceBox, FancyBox, etc).

Here’s a screenshot in the snazzy new WordPress 2.5 admin panel, showcasing the Flickr icon in the new Add Media bar:
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(Click the screen shot to see what the pop up overlay looks like)


PS, WordPress 2.5 support for my other plugins is coming very shortly!

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 1st 2008 at 12:42 am

18 comments

  1. # Erik Rasmussen Apr 01, 2008

    THANK YOU!!

    It’s kind of a shame that it has to load the entire popup-div every time. Before I would click fairly rapidly on each photo in the inline frame to add it to the post. I understand that there’s little you can do about that, but it’s a shame. It turns out that there are times when frames are useful. There’s no way for you to make it add the loaded div to the page, and not provide the faux-window effect is there?

  2. # Joe Tan Apr 01, 2008

    I’ll look into if there’s a way to speed it up, but the previous tabbed style wasn’t actually that different… clicking the “Photos” tab still required another new page load. I guess now there’s just a little bit of javascript animation that happens ;)

  3. # Erik Rasmussen Apr 01, 2008

    Yes. The load is no slower than before. What’s slow is that if I want to add my last 5 flickr photos to my post, I have to go through the new div loading process five times. And with the old frame, I only had to do it once, and then it stayed on the page for me to click to add the rest of the photos.

  4. # Joe Tan Apr 01, 2008

    Erik, thanks for the clarification. Perhaps I can add a checkbox to auto-close the window or something to that effect. It’s a little weird tho, since you wouldn’t be able to edit the post content as you’re inserting photos…..

  5. # Erik Rasmussen Apr 01, 2008

    It seems like you could just mark the div as “display:none;” and then the next time it was requested, you could just show it instantly, not having to fetch it all again. Is that possible?

  6. # Anton Piatek Apr 02, 2008

    You should be able to do it - I had a go at porting the plugin to wp2.5 and added a new tab on the image popup (rather than a new icon that launches a popup) and that allowed me to keep adding photos to my post until i clicked close

  7. # ss Apr 02, 2008

    I found 2 issue:

    1.
    After update,
    I can’t load my photo page on my site with 0.95-version flickr.php,
    but it works with 0.94-version flickr.php.
    I think the problem comes from these two lines:
    if (!defined(”SILAS_FLICKR_BASEURL”)) define(”SILAS_FLICKR_BASEURL”, get_option(’silas_flickr_baseurl’));

    and
    add_action(’parse_request’, array(&$SilasFlickrPlugin, ‘parse_query’));

    If I del these two lines, it works fine.

    2.
    Insert icon url become :
    http://xxx.xxx/ssblog/e:\blog\wp-content\plugins\silaspart ners\flickr\icon.gif
    it shold be work without “e:\blog\wp-content\plugins\silaspartners\”

    s orry for my poor English.

  8. # Joe Tan Apr 02, 2008

    Erik, that’s an interesting suggestion… I’ll look into seeing if it’ll work.

  9. # Kojima Apr 03, 2008

    I have a problem with tabs.

    At first I can see my photos.
    When I refresh the same photo page again,it shows “Sorry, no photos found! “.

    Cleaning cache can let me see them again,but the same problem is still unsolved.

    I found a setting that can use filesystem based caching.

    and It works!

    Sorry, my English isn’t good enough.

  10. # Qball Apr 04, 2008

    Joe, I love the gallery plugin. I recently updated to .95 along with WP 2.5 . I can not retrieve my Group albums from Flickr. It does not show up in configuration. It definitely does not show up on its gallery page. I added the

    define(’SILAS_FLICKR_DISPLAYGROUPS’, true);

    tp wp-config.php , but no results. Is there something missing or a work a round. My flickr api is working properly.

  11. # jzl Apr 08, 2008

    Thanks for all the work!

  12. # Hunter Cross Apr 09, 2008

    THANKS for all the hard work and keeping these important plugins up to date Joe! You are a real asset to the community, I have enjoyed seeing this plugin grow and always look forward to your new ideas.

  13. # David Apr 12, 2008

    This stopped working for no apparent reason.

    Previously when I went to select an image, pulled up a photo when I clicked on that photo it gave me size options and when I clicked on the size options it would insert the picture at my cursor in the message.

    Now instead the pictures come up and the size options appear below the photo. When I click on the size option it does not insert but brings up the picture on the screen and I cannot figure out how t make it insert?

    I have tried reinstalling plugin to no avail.

    Help!

  14. # Simon R Apr 16, 2008

    I have a similar problem to David (Apr 12) having now upgraded to Flickr Photo Album (0.95) running in conjunction with WP 2.5. While I now get the new “Add Media” icon and can select the photo / album to insert, with associated size selections, nothing then happens.

    This plug is awesome, under normal circumstances, and greatly look forward to resuming normal operation.

    Would really appreciated some clue to as to whether I might have duffed up the installation or it is perhaps a more fundemental problem with the code. Simon

  15. # Simon R Apr 16, 2008

    strangely the plug in seems to work when posting to a clean blank post .. but problematic when inserting into an existing post with text already there. Will need to dig further and see if I can isolate failure scenarios.

  16. # Joe Tan Apr 16, 2008

    @Simon, what browser are you using?

  17. # Simon Apr 21, 2008

    Joe.I’m using latest version of firefox. But same seems to happen in ie as well. I’m going to disable all add ins and see if that helps. Simon

  18. # Ştef Apr 29, 2008

    I’m having the same problem as David and Simon. I’ve made a topic on the flickr pool just recently.

    This is the first time I’m installing the plugin and the idea is really awesome. :)

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