pekastel

I’m working on another project that uses the flickr api, and I’m also experiencing random problems and connection timeouts while querying the api.

Thanks for the update.

I’ve done some testings and the plugin seems to be working fine. Could be a problem on the flickr api, I guess…

Hey guys,

I’m with little free time and could not answer before. Regarding the “BY: ” word, you can translate using wpml string translation, just look for the ‘pickapic’ textdomain.

I know it could be better to change it directly from WP admin but I’m working on a new version of the plugin and I’m only doing bug fixes only on this version. The good news is that this kind of suggestions will be taking into account. The bad news is that it’s still not finished, but it will be soon.

And it’s true “global” was needed on line 592, fixed on 1.2.6 (released today).

I’ve uploaded a new version of the plugin with the bug fix.

Thanks for reporting and let me know if you have any problems.

Hey guys,

I’m analyzing this error and in my test environments it doesn’t seems to be related to an incompatibility with WP 4.0, since I’m also testing in 3.9.2 and it also fails.

It seems to be a problem while querying the flickr API.

I’m working on a solution.

I’ve tried some searches (on WP 3.5.2 and 3.5.1) and everything seems to be working fine.

Have you ever tried to use your own flickr api key? Flickr limits the amount of searches made with the same key to 3600 per hour.

You can set your own api key from the option page of the plugin (Options -> Flickr – Pick a Picture).

Hi, Jim!

This plugin is deeply tied to WP backend so at first glance I can’t imagine an easy way to integrate it on your front end.

You could try with some javascript at the front end to do simple searches on flickr using their API and just embed the picture selected directly in post content. This way you don’t need to implement the download process to add the image into WP thus simplifying the development at the expense of losing functionality.

I Hope it helps.

Hi,

I’ve released a new version that uses single quotes in captions.

Please give it a try.

It looks like you don’t have the curl module activated on your installation. I have added a fix that uses file_get_contents method (assuming that you have ‘allow_url_fopen’ enabled) if curl is not available..

If you want send me a pull request on github with the change that you have made to the caption, so I can merge it.

Hi Tarmo,

I will add this feature, give me a couple days.

Hi, thanks for commenting!

I’ve released a new version of the plugin that implements your suggestion.

Hope it suit your needs.

Hi!

Thanks for pointing this error, I’ve released a new version of the plugin that uses Curl instead of allow_url_fopen. Please if you want you can try the new version of the plugin, should work fine now.

Let me know if you have more issues.

Hi Michelle,

That’s weird, what version of wp are you using?

Can you check if the flickr api key has been defined in the plugin options page?

Hi tzzel,

I’ve released a new version of the plugin that supports ordering the search results by all the available options on flickr, and defaults the search order to “Relevance”.

Try it and please let me know what you think.

Thanks for commenting.

Hi,

I’ve added support to search flickr using all the possible licenses, my original idea was to only search for pictures under license 4 and 7 (as you noticed) but it make sense to let users decides that.

Thanks for commenting and sorry for the delay.