Russell Jamieson

Hi,

Firstly, apologies for taking ages to notice your post – I must have missed the Google Alarm. For a faster response please use https://www.slickrflickr.com

I can see from your site it is working fine now.

You were right in your assertion that sometimes Flickr some time before photos are available – the delay can be between a few minutes and 2 days but it typically under 15 minutes.

Please see the post discussing Flickr Availability delays

Hi,

This is most likely an environmental error – either your host is blocking access because they have changed the web server security settings (unlikely) or the connection is timing out due to performance issues at Flickr.

What you need is slightly more information about the error which may be in your apache error log file.

Please see WP HTTP Error – Connection Refused and No photos returned due to WP HTTP timeout

Also you can try running Slickr Flickr with use_key=”y” and then use_key=”n” to see if there is any difference in the response: the former forces the Flickr API to be used and the latter uses the Flickr RSS feeds – these two approaches will yield different responses if there are problems at Flickr

Hi,

As I mentioned above, the code is JavaScript not PHP and is located in the file all-orange/js/custom-jquery-script.js

Regards

Russell

Hi Shiro,

You should NOT change Slickr Flickr – the problem is with the theme file custom-jquery-script.js.

// Drop down menu style
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.navPanel ul.nav ul').parent().hover(function() {
        $(this).children('ul').fadeIn('fast');
        $(this).addClass('activeParent');
    },
    function() {
        $(this).children('ul').fadeOut('fast');
        $(this).removeClass('activeParent');
    });
});

becomes

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery('.navPanel ul.nav ul').parent().hover(function() {
        jQuery(this).children('ul').fadeIn('fast');
        jQuery(this).addClass('activeParent');
    },
    function() {
        jQuery(this).children('ul').fadeOut('fast');
        jQuery(this).removeClass('activeParent');
    });
});

Hi Shiro,

This is a jQuery conflict. If you replace all the $ symbols in your script https://bananadog.jp/wp-content/themes/all-orange/js/custom-jquery-script.js?ver=3.1 by jQuery it should be fine.

Eg.
$(document).ready(function() {

is replaced by

jQuery(document).ready(function() {

This deep within the WordPress code. How is it related to Slickr Flickr? Can you give more information?

Hi,

By default Slickr Flickr uses the ‘square’ thumbnail however you can also use proportional thumbnails too.

For 100 by 75px thumbnails use thumbnail_size=”thumbnail”
For 240 by 180px thumbnails use thumbnail_size=”small”

There is also in a thumbnail_scale parameter, a percentage scaling factor, so:

For 180 by 135px thumbnails use thumbnail_size=”small” thumbnail_scale=75″

Here is an example using larger portrait thumbnails

The second gallery shows an example of using proportional landscape thumbnails

Please check out the photos at https://www.slickrflickr.com/2001/library-of-congress-baseball-photos/ for an example of Library of Congress Baseball photos

Note that I grabbed only 14 photos.

If I try and get more than 20 photos through the Flickr API then no photos are returned (at least at the time of writing) due to an ongoing hardware/software problem at Flickr described here at https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157625560721827/

Regards

Russell

The issue here is that Slickr Flickr requires PHP 5 and your web server is running PHP 4.

I have now made this explicit in the plugin requirements.

If you upgrade your site to PHP 5 then Slickr Flickr will starting working again

Apologies for not tracking this one down sooner

Regards

Russell

It was Goldeneye. It finished a little while ago. Returning to my computer now stirred but not shaken.

The API key issue was reported on the Flickr forum back on the 28th Decemeber .
https://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157625565087749/

and https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157625560721827

Quoting:

Flickr Staff Update Dec 30 2010: There is an issue with search that is causing some lag and inconsistent results in search. Because of this you may not see some images when doing searches, tag searches, or when using the API search.

We don’t have an ETA but unfortunately from the investigation we have done it looks like this may continue at least through the weekend and maybe longer. We also want it to be resolved as soon as possible to and we’re doing everything we can to make that happen. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Hi,

The feed using the API key is returning no photos and the feed using the standard RSS feed has 9 photos.

With API Key: https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&lang=en-us&format=feed-rss_200&api_key=08364cfd7dc3a0f8207f72e562f15b6c&user_id=27939731@N02&tags=evoteamalpental

Standard RSS : https://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=27939731@N02&tags=evoalpental&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

I can see the updates took place yesterday and it seems Flickr is taking its time in synchronizing all its servers.

As you have less than 20 tagged photos you can specify use_key=n items=20 and this will make your slideshow or gallery use the standard RSS feed which will return you the 9 photos.

The synchronization of Flickr servers used to take about 15 minutes but now delays of a day or more are being reported.

I will browse the Flickr forums now and see if there is anything logged recently that may explain the delay.

Regards

Russell

Hi Sean,

Fine, we will see what happens tomorrow.

A recent broken photos issue is logged on the Flickr Help Forum

It seemed to resolve itself within the day

Regards

Russell

Hi Sean,

I tried to reproduce the problem but to no avail – your gallery works fine on my support site – see Photos with Broken Links.

If you are not too busy and would like to delve deeper into the problem please comment on my various suggestions there and I will get straight back to you.

Or you could take the approach of just waiting – the broken link issues I have seen before resolve themselves usually within 24 hours by which time Flickr have resynchronized all their servers.

Hi Swebby,

Thanks for your feedback and question. Sorry had problem with 1.18

I released Slickr Flickr 1.19 today with a couple of bug fixes so this might address the issue of the missing photos.

Please let me know the URL of your page, your Flickr ID and specific slickr-flickr command you used and I will try and reproduce the problem with 1.19.

BTW I have had seen some broken links in the last week just trying to view photos directly on Flickr so the problem might not be plugin related – see the comments on this post on the Slickr Flickr support site

Regards
Russell

Hi Eric.

This is Russell the plugin developer here. Thanks for pointing this problem out. You are right that it was introduced in the last release

Slickr Flickr either accesses photos using the RSS feed or the API key

For the RSS the parameter name is tagmode – see https://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/docs/photos_public/

For the API access method the parameter name is tag_mode – see https://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html

I overlooked this subtle but important difference when making changes in the last release. The impact is that the RSS access method will fail when the tagmode=’any’ and behave as if the ‘all’ option had been chosen

I will put out a release in a couple of days that fixes this

In the meantime you can get your gallery working now by entering your Flickr API key in Slickr Flickr Admin settings and adding the following parameter to your gallery

use_key='y'

This works because when you use the API key it sets up the tag_mode parameter correctly.

I made this same change at https://www.slickrflickr.com/438/making-a-flickr-gallery-or-slideshow-with-more-than-one-tag/ and it works fine there so it should work for your gallery too

Regards

Russell