Quick Flickr Widget
Hello and thanks for using Quick Flickr Widget. Here’s some information which might be interesting, and please please please read before you ask, okay?
It's Not Just a Photo Sharing Service
Description
The Quick Flickr Widget for WordPress is capable of displaying up to ten photos using your Flickr screen name or any public Flickr RSS feed. Here are the main features:
- Easy to setup and configure
- Up to 10 Flickr photos in your sidebar or any other widgetized area
- Fully customizable widget (editable before.widget, after.widget, before.item, after.item, etc.)
- You can pick the photos display size: thumbnail, square, small or medium
- You can choose the _blank target to the flickr links
- Images are displayed with the Flickr photo description in ALT and TITLE attributes
- Ability to show titles next to your images
- Very easy to customize CSS
- Supports Thickbox!!
Screenshots
Download, changelog and other notes
Download link, changelog and other notes. Officially hosted in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory: Quick Flickr Widget. I also like when people with WordPress.org accounts vote it up ;) thanks!
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Before you ask
Please don’t just say that it doesn’t work, okay? That doesn’t help at all. I need to know which version of the plugin you’re using, and don’t just say latest, because I update very often – I need a number. I’d also like to know which version of WordPress you’re using and the output in the widget (there should probably be some error message). And if you’re a genius you can also tell me what version of php and apache you’re using and whether safe_mode is switched on or off on your server. Thanks.
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Looks amazing! You can also try to add the ability to add more than one flickr widget to the sidebar. Best of luck, mate!
Nice. Thanks Chris!
Hi, thanks for a great plugin!
My request: possibility to show title under picture and description when mouse hovers over.
Thanks Mats. Noted down your request. Stay tuned!
I can’t get my photos to show up on my website! I put the rss url in the box:
feed://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=36347316@N02&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
but it says:
“Your Quick Flickr widget requires configuration!”
Hey try using http instead of feed, I think that may be the problem. I’ll try to solve this in the next release. Thanks!
hi.. i’ve tried with the rss url and http url and it still says; “Your Quick Flickr widget requires configuration!”
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What version of WordPress are you using? I guess I’ll need to make some debugging available ’cause I really can’t say anything ATM :( Please wait for the next version.
I am using the latest version of wordpress and version 1.1 of your plugin.
Hey I just tested this address a few mins ago worked fine on 1.1 and wp 2.7: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=36347316@N02&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
feed:// tho said that configuration is required. I’m not sure the RSS class in wordpress can handle redirection. I’ll look thru it before the next release to find out more. Thanks for your feedback Andrew. Please let me know if you get anywhere else.
Mine works but it shows text links instead of images. Any ideas?
You using 1.1?
I loaded the widget and the RSS.
got the pictures on the widget.
Could you make some suggestions for the before and after code?
Is there a simple way to get a margin and control how many across.
As an amature I can only make educated guesses about the code after playing with my Expressions software.
Are we still in PHP or CSS or are we back to html?
Hey, thanks for using my plugin. The before and after widget code is probably going to be some div with an id=”flickr” or something like that. The before and after items code could be div class=”item”. That way you can style your photos in CSS like this: #flickr .item { … }. Or you can use an unordered list, it’s up to you. Try out to see what suits you best.
The margin could be done with CSS.
I upgraded to the newest version and now I cannot figure it anymore, I try to put my login username, also my e-mail into the “Flickr username” box but it does not work. I do not know what to put in here. My flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tungnguyen/ . Please help me. Thank you!
Hey thanks a lot for your feedback. The username input field is for your flickr username, in your case it’s tungnguyen. Works for me, I just tried it out on my local box. Did version 1.1 work fine before the upgrade to 1.2? Also, is your server running PHP5 or an earlier version? Thank you!
The previous version worked well. I tried to enter “tungnguyen” but it’s another Flickr username, not me (you can check at http://www.flickr.com/photos/14406115@N04). I changed my screen name to “Tung Nguyen Thanh” and put it into the box but nothing happened. I do not know why. Anyone have the same error like me? Or the username cannot contain any space?
Hey. Thanks once again. Yeah, I think I’ve found the problem. The plugin converts your Flickr screen name into a Flickr ID. The Flickr API converted “Tung Nguyen Thanh” into your ID just fine, so there’s a little bug in my plugin – yup, no spaces. I’ll fix that in 15 minutes and release it as 1.2.1. If you don’t want to wait change your screen name to something without spaces as a temporary solution. Thanks once again.
I updated the version 1.2.1 and it worked like a charm now. You changed the box to “Flickr Screen Name” also make the things is more clearer. Good job. Thank you very much!
You’re welcome Tung. Glad it worked.
Works great, thank you
Glad you liked it.
Can you draw photos from a specific Set in your Flickr or just your photostream?
No, it’s just the photostream. Anyways, if you think it’s a good idea then I can consider it as a feature request for future enhancements.
Of course!
I have a pro account which I dump everything into, but I’d like to have a “Website” set that I can dump stuff into.
Maybe later you could make a Flickr carousel viewer.
People could put different stuff into different Sets display pictures related to the content you’re viewing.
For instance, if I had a site about Rocks, Plants, and Planets. I could put pictures of rocks in one set, pictures of plants in another set, and pictures of planets in another. When people were surfing around a certain part of my site, a large header image at top would display a random picture from the corresponding Flickr Set.
Take it one step further and draw pictures from the Photostream by tags. That would be interesting.
Anyway, great work! Thanks for this plugin.
Yup, sounds like a great idea. Thanks for your contribution, I’ll definitely consider that.
I’m getting this
Flickr API call failed! (findByUsername returned: )
I put in my user name
Hey Aaron, thanks for your contribution. What username are you using? Remember it’s your Flickr screen name that you should input, not Yahoo ID.