Russell Jamieson

Hi Aniger,

This is down to WordPress caching – WordPress will only read your Flickr photos once every 12 hours for each gallery unless you clear the RSS cache.

see How to Resolve Flickr RSS caching issues

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the suggestion.

However it is not ideal as WP PrettyPhoto is running jquery-1.4.2.min.js while WordPress is bundled with 1.6.1.

I will verify your solution works for me and add this an option in the next release of Slickr Flickr.

So there will be two options for WpPrettyPhoto in Slickr Flickr Admin LIghtBox setting
dropdown listbox

1. Wp-PrettyPhoto (single photos only)
2. Wp-PrettyPhoto (with gallery – requires using bundled jQuery 1.4.2)

Hopefully WP-PrettyPhoto will update to jqQuery 1.6.1 pretty soon and the problem will resolve itself

Michael,

Sorry about the delay in answering, the Google Alert did not pick this up. You will get a faster response posting on https://www.slickrflickr.com.

What is your Flickr ID? If you get nothing when specifying an API key that suggests that the API key is incorrect. The error message that indicates no photos found also has a link – it is worth clicking that link as it will give a more detailed message. You can post also this link here.

To investigate change the code [slickr-flickr tag=”nrdportpics” items=”30″] and then inspect the outcome.

Hi,

Please can you introduce a defined constant for the spritegen folder – so I can configure this NOT to be located under wp-content/plugins which is read-only on my server.

Each time you update the plugin I need to edit it to reconfigure spritegen to be in the wp-content/cache folder which is writeable.

If would be really helpful if you could create a couple of constants for the spritegen location as this simplfies all the references to it in sexybookmarks.php and includes/helper_functions.php

This is the tweak I make at the top of sexybookmarks.php:

$pluginpath = '/plugins/'.plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)).'/';
$content_path = defined('WP_CONTENT_URL') ? WP_CONTENT_URL : (get_option('siteurl').'/wp-content');
$content_dir = defined('WP_CONTENT_DIR') ? WP_CONTENT_DIR : (ABSPATH.'/wp-content');
define('SHRSB_PLUGPATH',$content_path.$pluginpath);
define('SHRSB_PLUGDIR',$content_dir.$pluginpath);
if (!defined('SHRSB_SPRITEPATH')) define('SHRSB_SPRITEPATH',$content_path.'/cache/spritegen/');
if (!defined('SHRSB_SPRITEDIR')) define('SHRSB_SPRITEDIR',$content_dir.'/cache/spritegen/');

In my case I put spritegen under the cache as it is in fact a cached file that is there to improve performance.

Unfortunately not. Your suggested fix still breaks my browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari on MacBook) whatever theme I chose – even Twenty Ten- and is also unaffected by WP Pretty Photo settings.

There is an error on line 55 of jQuery.prettyPhoto.js Uncaught Type Error : cannot call method ‘match’ of undefined.

This error is repeated in an infinite loop.

It is really down to the WpPrettyPhoto plugin developer to handle the scenario where the ItemSrc variable is undefined.

Please can you supply a URL where you have it working – I am curious to see what else you are running that makes it work for you but not for me.

Sorry for the delay in responding.

On Flickr Pro expiring, Flickr reduces your access to the first 200 photos you uploaded. You need to re-subscribe to Flickr to get access back to the later photos

SeeFlickr Help on Pro Account Expiring

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the suggestion.

However when I tried it, it caused my browser to go into a loop and the lightbox was not displayed at all. (well only a small black square with no photo). When I did “inspect element on Chrome” there were hundreds of javascript errors.

I think this is down to different WP Pretty Settings. What settings are you you using?

My settings were as follows :
– DISABLE Automatic replacement of all supported media types
– DISABLE Automatic replacement of image links (BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG)
– ENABLE Show title (value of the links’ ALT attribute) inside prettyPhoto box.
– ENABLE Allow the prettyPhoto box to be resizeable

With my settings the lightbox works fine – however as you correctly point out the galleries do not operate and neither are next and previous arrows displayed. This is not a good solution so I need to revert to your solution but also need instructions of what configuration is required to make it work.

One other thing
Wp Pretty photo uses the image alt and title tags the opposite way around to other lightboxes – it puts the Photo Title in the alt and the description in the title. The next version of Slickr Flickr will swap these around to WPpPretty photo will now support photos descriptions.

Many Thanks.

I am glad I will be able to have Highslide display both captions and headings

I will be adding Highslide to the list of LightBoxes supported by Slickr Flickr in my next release.

Cheers

Russell

Hi Munman,

Not you. it is a problem with 1.27 and 1.28 that I have fixed in 1.29 which I will release this weekend. Apologies for the hassle.

You can always upgrade Slickr Flickr by deactivating and deleting the plugin then reinstalling. It will remember you settings.

Regards

Russell

Sorry, I was being thick – if it works from localhost then issue is NOT with Flickr but with your web host.

The IP address https://68.142.214.24/ is just the IP address of Flickr.

You need to call your host to find out why they are blocking access.

If you can log on to your server and run a shell command then try:

wget https://68.142.214.24/

This might give you a fuller error message

Hi Rob,

The “permission denied “message is probably accurate. I can think of two possibilities.

1. Your host is blocking the access to the RSS feed

or

2. Your photos are private

Easiest way to check is to test the Flickr URL/link that appears on the page next to the error message.

I second this idea. It is a bit awkward that the images can be identified to the user either though a tooltip, mouseover or caption and hence the user has no idea where the link will take them

I would like to see the photos visible in the Media Library and hence we could set image titles, alts and captions there.

Then in the Wp-Cycle plugin configuration we could just select the images from the media library and add the link.

wp-cycle would then just populate the title and alt attribute from the media library (and it could even show captions too)

Wes-adme,

What lightbox are you using?

With Slickr Flickr you can use the bundled lightbox, thickbox which comes installed with WordPress, or it can work with any of half a dozen lightboxes that are installed separately – all you need to do is tell Slickr Flickr which one you are using in Slickr Flickr Admin settings by selecting the “LightBox option”.

Slickr Flickr 1.28 is compatible with ThickBox, ShadowBox, SlimBox, LightBox Plus, Evolution LIghtBox, FancyBox and Pretty Photo as described in my post onusing Slickr Flickr with other lightboxes.

I will be adding integration with HighSlide in the next release.

Please try upgrading to 1.28 – this may fix your problem as I have changed the default behaviour to load Javascript in the header.

You can load javascript in the footer but only using by setting an option in Slickr Flickr Admin settings.

If that fails you can always sign up for Slickr Flickr Pro to get support

In the next 30 minutes I will add the buttons for annual subscription and one-time lifetime subscription.

Slickr Flickr uses jQuery without any problems.

You may have a Javascript error on your site perhaps caused by either
– multiple versions of jQuery being loaded
– jQuery loading too late
– jQuery conflicting with whatever library your slider is using
– your slider not being compatible with other plugins that use jQuery
– your theme not implementing all the standard wordPress hooks (specifically wp_footer)

Regards

Russell