Flickr slideshow plugin for wordpress (μ)
1 July 2007Since “object” and “iframe” are stripped out of wordpress-? for security reasons, I could no longer embed flickr slideshows using either iframe or object. Therefore, I was looking for someway to embed my photo collection at flickr, but the plugins I found didn’t exactly do what I needed. Therefore, I modified the slideshare plugin to embed flickr slideshows.
- Download the plugin (.zip) here (uses object tag). Note that object tag has some problems with ie7. Since iframe seems to work better on both firefox and ie, download the plugin (.zip) here (uses iframe tag; recommended, see below).
- Unzip/install the plugin in your wp-content/plugins directory
- Activate the plugin within wordpress.
- Usage:Once activated you can embed slideshows in your blog post as follows:
[flickruser_idset_id]
Please feel free to modify the plugin to include tags, and other parameters of flickr slideshow. If you do modify the plugin, I would really appreciate if you would inform me of the updates (so that I can use the updated plugin).
In case you are curious, I tried the following two plugins:
- Flickr photo album plugin by Joe Tan: Needs libcurl with php, which we haven’t installed in our server. I tried to use the curl emulator, but some curl functions used in the plugin are not supported in the emulator.
- Flickr slideshow plugin from Xe-Media: Allows the use of user id, but cannot pass any other parameter
Update: It seems that the object tag gives problem with internet explorer (ie7). Here is a work around plugin that uses iframe instead of object. Thanks gifted typist!
See the plugin in action here:
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18 Responses to “Flickr slideshow plugin for wordpress (μ)”
July 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am
[...] of them are on my flickr photostream – see the set slideshow below (via the magic of this excellent wordpress plugin) or on [...]
July 18th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
@Gifted Typist, you can add
[flickruser_idset_id]anywhere in your blog post. For example, consider my blog post: http://www.kumarasastry.com/2007/07/14/gecco-2007london-photos/I entered the following in the blog post:
[flickr89044848@N0072157600770450400]See the slideshow at Flickr.com
where 89044848@N00 is my user_id and 72157600770450400 is the set_id. In case you don't know what your user_id is, you can find it out from http://www.idgettr.com
July 18th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Can you provide exact instructions on exactly how you embed the “flickr user_id set_id” code the blog, ie in which part of the blog?
I have activated the plug-in successfully don’t know how to move forward from here.
July 18th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
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July 18th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
[...] Some of the original GT lurkers might recall one or two of these shots from many moons ago on the old Blogspot. I’m giving them a test run here to try out my new Flickr plugin for Wordpress. [...]
July 19th, 2007 at 8:45 am
It seems object tag has problems with ie7. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve now replaced the object tag with iframe tag which seems to work both with firefox and ie7 and ie6. You can download the iframe-based slideshow plugin here
Alternatively, you can edit flickSlideShow.php and change object to iframe (of course, with appropriate changes).
July 19th, 2007 at 5:26 am
thanks again for the help. IT’s a fantastic plug-in.
July 19th, 2007 at 6:48 am
Hmmm. My visitors are telling me it doesn’t work in Explorer. Is there something I can do?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:24 am
[...] informed me that the plugin didn’t work in Explorer. I got in touch with the developer and within hours he had a [...]
July 19th, 2007 at 9:27 am
It works now. Thanks again for your quick response to this.
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
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October 16th, 2007 at 5:50 am
What Am I doing wrong?
Installed plugin into plugin directory!
Activated plugin in wordpress
created a post that said
[pictobrowserchamel 72157602444375523]And that is exactly what shows up in the post
No Pictures!
October 16th, 2007 at 6:01 am
No public sets for that user
October 16th, 2007 at 6:02 am
works here but not on my blog
My blog just displays the command [pictobrowser
October 16th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Charles Hamel,
You user_id is 30574243@N00 not chamel. Also note that flickr slideshow only shows public photos (not private ones). Try
[pictobrowser30574243@N0072157602444375523]. Also note that the pictobrowser plugin is different one. It is available here:http://www.kumarasastry.com/2007/07/23/flickr-pictobrowser-plugin-for-wordpress/
September 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
[...] I tried Flickrslidr but it did not work in WordPress. Then, being frustrated with this, I came to Kurama Sastry blog to donwload WordPress plugin and codex [...]
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 am
Hi,
I’m trying to have picobrowser in my wordpress blog page….but I just cant activated plugin in wordpress..wordpress says that it is not possible.
Futhermore, I download the php file into my desktop…but how to installed plugin into plugin directory!?
sorry..I’m use to text blogging, but know I’m trying to help a friend of my whit her blog….
thanks!!
Flavia
April 17th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Thank you for this plugin, I’ve been using flickr slideshows on my site for a while now and although embedding the code in my pages in html mode wasn’t too much trouble given it was mostly just a case of copy and paste, it has always really annoyed me the way that if I loaded the page in visual editting mode it would kill the embedded code and mean I had to add it all over again, your plugin has just saved me a lot of work!