Flickr Suite Content Plugin
- This extension requires registration to download.
[flickr set= xxx] (where xxx is the set id, brackets can be changed to {})
The plugin supports various type of media from flickr:
- Single photo’s ( [flickr photo=xxx] )
- Sets ( [flickr set=xxx] )
- Videos ( [flickr video=xxx] )
- User photo streams ( [flickr user=xxx] )
- Group pools ( [flickr group=xxx] )
- Tags ([ flickr tag=" xxx, xxx"] )
- Galleries ([flickr gallery=xxx])
Other high regarded features are:
- Authentication: Access all photos on your flickr account and control privacy settings
- Display random photos (great for use in a module)
- Geo information: Locate your photo on google maps.
- Enable or disable download of the original photos
- Multiple thumbnail styles
- Display one flickr photo on your website linked
to a selection of flickr photos in the image viewer.
The plugin features the popular and highly configurable Highslide image viewer to display your flickr photos. The plugin includes various options to configure the image viewer and more will be available in future releases.
## A license to use Highslide with the flickr slideshow plugin on commercial websites is included with your download. ##
## The Flickr Suite Content Plugin: A new name and new features ##
The Flickr Suite Plugin is fully backwards compatible with the Flickr Slideshow plugin.
Please visit our website for a demo and full overview of all the features of the Flickr Suite Content Plugin.
support is excellent. I had a question, and the developer replied within 24 hours, and supplied an updated version of the plugin that fixed my issues.
highly recommend.
I just had an issue on my webserver due to a very recent PHP config.
Jason kindly replied me (on holidays !!!) and a couple of days later, I had an update in my mailbox... what could I ask more ???
New quality extensions maybe ;-)
Michaël Frippiat
Thank you for your review. It is highly appreciated! :-)
If I may give a suggestion for a next release: I am using the plugin in a blogsite and I am using the option to put one picture in an article. It would be nice when you put a small picture in the article, you can click on It to view the photo in normal size. You can use the set function, but I think the thumbnail is too small for the articles and then I need to make for each photo a new set in flickr.
Thank you for your review. It is highly appreciated!
Since you posted your review I've uploaded a new version of the plugin to the website which includes the requested feature. Secondly in this version I also improved the loading speed of single pictures. (set image description to none for single photos. Loading titles or descriptions for single images requires an extra API call which takes extra time and slows down your site.)
Thanks for the review Kat, it was a pleasure helping you out. :-)
thanks
Thanks for the review Dick! It is highly appreciated. Over the last few months I spent quite a lot of time working on the new plugin, the new website and the elaborate user guides. It is always good to hear people appreciate the hard work. :-) Keeps me motivated.
The author's contact form does not work (mail function error when have written detailed explanation).
I fixed the contact form and added my email address as well. Could you please contact me, so we can have a look on how to fix this for you. Thanks in advance.
The authentication method is very easy.
I actually had a lot of problems making this plugin work but Jasper made himself avaiable to find where was the problem (turns out that the problem was in my provider's firewall).
Thanks a lot for all the good work!
Thanks for the review Dr. Weiss. It was a pleasure helping you out! Besides that, you pointed out some issues for improvement, which improved the plugin. So thank you for the help as well! :-)
Thanks to Jasper (and team) for all the efforts they put into it.
I just stumbled into a small issue while installing as per the tutorial on the Website which mentions
[flickr install=authentication] should as rightly said in the image be [flickr install=authenticate]
Rest, all neat. :)
Thanks for the review. It is highly appreciated. :-)
As for the issue concerning the install statements. Thanks for noticing the difference between text and image. Although the plugin will accept both [flickr install=authenticate] and [flickr install=authentication], I'll change it in the text to avoid confusion. :-)
Has anyone got an idea why that would happen?
btw: I find it extremely slow when i want to display a set of 25+ pictures. I read that this could be solved by enabling the caching time...which amout of time should i type in?
Could you please contact me by email, so we can see if we can resolve this issue. This might help development and other users as well.
The plug-in is indeed quite slow upon displaying a set of pictures for the first time. Unfortunately this is due to the lack of speed of the flickr API, so I can't do much about that. Enabling caching should resolve that issue for the time the results in the cache are valid. By default the cached results are valid for 24 hours (86400 seconds). You can change the cache settings in the basic options of the plug-in.
My gripe isn't with the program. My dissappointment is that there is absolutely no way to contact the developer. You can look thru the installation documention and FAQs on the website, but if that doesn't work, you are out of luck!
There are links to a forum, but the links are broken. There is no Contact Us link. It would be nice to see someone take ownership of this really nice extention!
Thanks for yor review. As I have a bit of time on my sleeve, so I'll dig into updating the plugin to Joomla 1.6 shortly. Keep posted. ;-)
I hacked flickrslideshows.php to add the code below after line 986
then I get pagination after 25 pictures, might be handy for a next release
$this->photoCounter++;
$pageno=floor($this->photoCounter/25);
$teller=fmod($this->photoCounter,25);
if ($teller==0) {
$this->HTMLOutput .="$teller,$this->photoCounter,";
}
I tried all of the Flickr plug-ins and this one is the best.
2 problems... In the PDF doc, it says you must use stream to get the content of a specific user but the command is user !
Then I never found a way to sort images by more than one tag. If there's a way, I'll be more than happy to learn it !
One question though - is it possible to display Groups so that people contributing to a particular group can have all the photos displayed in a Joomla site.
Fantastic application though.
