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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.
Hello,
I just installed this widget, and I love it! However, I’d like to link the h2 to my photostream. Is this possible? I tried mucking about in the quick_flickr_widget.php code, but didn’t see the h2, and wasn’t quite savvy enough to figure it out.
Thanks!
Kat
Kat, the h2 is probably in your theme’s sidebar decleration ;)
Hi koshvenin,
I know, but I don’t want every widget h2 on the page to link to Flickr, of course, and I don’t know of a way to make an h2 link that’s specific to this widget without editing the quick_flickr_widget.php code directly — and the h2 isn’t there. Is this just not possible, or is there a way to affect only this widget h2 from the sidebar.php file? If so, I’ll keep digging for it.
Kat
Take a look at the register_sidebar function in the Codex, it seems that you can use certain %d, %1$s and %2$s when defining. Perhaps those would contain the names of the widgets you pick, then you could use certain selectors to pick them out in CSS. Hope that helps ;)
Thanks for the plugin! I moved the extract a bit lower so I could call the widget directly from Page Templates like this:
$flickr_options = array(‘tags’ => $name, ‘items’ => 9);
widget_quickflickr($flickr_options);
This lets me override the defaults.
— quick_flickr_widget.php 2010-02-07 10:58:02.000000000 -0800
+++ quick_flickr_widget.php.new 2010-02-07 10:59:24.000000000 -0800
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@
$flickr_api_key = “d348e6e1216a46f2a4c9e28f93d75a48″; // You can use your own if you like
function widget_quickflickr($args) {
- extract($args);
-
$options = get_option(“widget_quickflickr”);
if( $options == false ) {
$options["title"] = “Flickr Photos”;
@@ -73,6 +71,8 @@
$random = $options["random"];
$javascript = $options["javascript"];
+ extract($args);
+
if (empty($error))
{
$target = ($target == “checked”) ? “target=\”_blank\”" : “”;
Good job Eamon! ;)
Love it! Im a serious newbie- is there anyway to make this show up only on my home page and none of the others?
thanks
whoops figured out that last question- it was a theme issue.
now i’m wondering if i can disable linking to my flicker as well as the rollover text- if so what line?
Hi there,
Love the plugin and its works great. But is there way of centeralising the photo in my side bar?
Doug, use CSS.
You can also just put a tag into the Before Widget option.
Hi there,
thanks for the plugin, works great !
I just have a question about the thickbox, is there any way I can control the size of the pictures diplayed by the thickbox ?
It may be stupid but I couldn’t find out so far.
Thanks a lot !
You could try doing it via CSS.
great plug in. I am using at http://www.kollmanmotorsports.com
can you tell me how i can chance the More Pics link
I am not able to get this to work with my blog. I am using plugin version 1.2.10 and WordPress 2.9.2. I get the follwoing error msg “Something went wrong with the Flickr feed! Please check your configuration and make sure that the Flickr username or RSS feed exists”
My blog is at http://www.LifelongLabs.com and the Flickr RSS feed is:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623458576803&nsid=34908673@N00&lang=en-us
That is the only feed that will stick with the widget. If I try my screen name, or any other URL when I hit save they disappear.
Thank you for your help.
Strange, will investigate ;)
I have the exact same problem.
Something wrong message, screen name or any other url disappears when I hit save…
Hey, great little widget! I wondered if I could ask a little question about the “shuffling”? It only seems to shuffle through the first 20 images of my photostream so I only ever get to see one set of my photos. Is it supposed to shuffle through my whole collection, or is it only seeing my recently uploaded images? How can I make the shuffle go ‘deeper’ ?
I’m using version 1.2.10 and wordpress 2.9.2
Many thanks!
Mike, it would involve doing more API calls to shuffle through the whole set, while shuffling through the latest only takes one, that’s one of the cons of the Flickr API ;)
Is it possible to make it so that this widget can be duplicated across more than one dynamic sidebar?
Via the new WordPress Widgets API, yeah, I guess ;)