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March 2nd, 2009
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.
Seem to be getting an error when using this plug-in on one website but not on another, have tried both RSS URL and user name. Using WP 2.8.6 and Quick Flickr Version 1.2.10 – safe_mod = Off – PHP Version 4.4.9 – the error message in my sidebar reads:
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/hebg/nlgmass.org/wp-content/plugins/quick-flickr-widget/quick_flickr_widget.php on line 98
The problem is in your PHP configuration. Try to switch the widget into javascript mode, that should help.
Perfect, thanks!
Thanks for your great plugin!
Many pictures, especially older pictures, are never shown. Is there a way to make the plugin select randomly from all my flickr-pictures?
I use WP 2.8.6 DE and the plugin-version 1.2.10.
Thomas, the Flickr API requires more than 1 API call for that, it would slow down your website.
I’m using Plugin Version 1.2.10 with WordPress 2.8.5. Is there a way to change the width and height of the widget?
Yes Luis, you can do that with CSS.
Hi, it works in my blog, but I want to ask how to give margin for every photos?
Hey, you can use the CSS to style the pictures and the widget itself.
I would like to use your widget (love it!) to display two different Flickr feeds in my sidebar. For some reason, WordPress will only allow me to use the widget once. I have one instance of it in place and it does not give me the option to add another one. Can this be done? Can the widget be something as simple as renamed to make it work?
To further clarify… I want to use the different feeds in different places in the sidebar.
I am using it as a widget. When I go to the Widget page of my dashboard, since I’ve used it once… it does not let me use it again. I’d like to use it twice. It does not show up again under “Available widgets”. For example, “PHP Code” widget allows me to use it several times.
See screenshot. http://uniformgrey.com/widgets.png
I hope I’ve adequately explained the issue. Thanks!
Hi Micha,
There’s currently no simple way of doing that, but people have asked me about it several times and I promised to make it possible in the next release. Not sure when that’ll be though ;) Other than that, you can dive into the PHP code and edit the plugin yourself, then perhaps send the code out to me and I’ll submit modifications ;)
Cheers!
Thanks for taking a look!
Hi! I am using Version 1.2.10 and WordPress 2.9. I am interested in the random function and how it works. I have 63 (and growing) images in a folder that I am calling on to display 10 images randomly upon each refresh in my sidebar. My issue is that some images will appear often and some never appear in this random grouping of 10. I have tested this will over 100 refreshes. Is this based upon the widget or Flickr? Thanks for the good work! This widget is my most useful find yet.
Hey UG, the API does not allow me to grab more than 20 images in one shot, that’s why the random feature shuffles the latest 20 and picks out a random 10. Going through all 63 would consume 4 API calls, which might be somewhat ineffective. The API doesn’t include a random parameter, so I’m unable to do it Flickr-side. And thanks for the widget luv ;)
Love the plugin! I think it would be handy if the widget had the ability to align the images to the one side or the other Also setting vspace/hspace would be nice as well. Something to make it easier for the average user to work with.
Isn’t that what CSS is for? I think giving a classname to use in CSS is reasonable enough.
But where in the CSS? In the quick-flickr-widget/quick_flickr_widget.php? or the style.css? Being an amateur I can’t find / do not know, how to centre-align the pictures. They now appear left, I would like to have ‘em centred… I’m running version 1.2.10 on WordPress 2.9
Pretty much everywhere, there’s no certain CSS for the plugin, but you can style it through basically any CSS file that’s linked to your page. I usually prefer the theme CSS file.
Ok, thx, I’ll dig in to it..
But, you made a fantastic widget, so it must be a piece of cake for you to give a bit of code that’ll do the job or add an option to align the pictures in a future update…
Sorry dude, can’t get it done. I removed your widget to use another one…
No probs ;)
Hi,
First things first – Happy New Year!
I really like your plugin – very well designed. I am however struggling with the “More” link that appears at the bottom. I would like to pont it to my Flickr gallery. At the moment it simply points to the home page of my blog, which is no use to me. Would you be able to help?
Many thanks
Boris
Hey Boris, thank you sir and Happy New Year to you too. Omg, did you really write that on January 1st? I think I was drunk back then ;) And you as well probably, as I just browsed to your website and the more link points to your flickr gallery ;) Am I missing something?
Hi,
Thanks for your response! I figured it out and yes, I wrote it on 1st January, it was a quiet one this year..
Thanks!
Boris
Hey Konstantin,
Just upgraded to the latest version 1.2.10 and I’m using WordPress 2.9.1. Everything was working perfectly before both the WordPress and plugin upgrades, but then I started getting the “Something went wrong with the Flickr feed! Please check your configuration and make sure that the Flickr username or RSS feed exists” error.
Then when I upgraded the plugin I got another error:
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/unsunghe/public_html/wp-content/plugins/quick-flickr-widget/quick_flickr_widget.php on line 98
Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=38549407%40N08&format=php&lang=en-us) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/unsunghe/public_html/wp-content/plugins/quick-flickr-widget/quick_flickr_widget.php on line 98
Any ideas? I couldn’t find “safe mode” in my hosting and, as I say everything worked fine before the updates.
Thanks!
Try switching the plugin to Javascript mode.
Hi Konstantin, thanks for the plugin. I was wondering, would it be possible for me to edit the plugin to have it open photos within the flickr feed like this (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangletron-5000/3060515818/), rather than like this (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3213/3060515818_40113876f3.jpg). If its possible, where and how would I do that?
Thanks again for the plugin,
Nick
Hey Nick, yeah it is but you’ll have to go through the Flickr API docs for that, though I think that if you choose not to use Thickbox your links will go to the Flickr page.
Thanks, turned off Thickbox and worked great. Where would I get started to write some css in my style file? I tried to add an image class here:
ereg(“]* src=\”([^\"]*)\”[^>]*>”, $value["description"], $regs);
but it didn’t work for me. How can I select the thumbnails so that I can work on them?
Thanks again