Flickr pictobrowser plugin for wordpress
23 July 2007I heard about pictobrowser from Julie and like this much better than the flickr slideshow. However, since “object” and “iframe” are stripped out of wordpress for security reasons, I could no longer embed pictobrowser object directly. Therefore, I modified the flickr slideshow plugin to embed pictobrowser.
- Download the plugin (.zip) here.
- 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:
[pictobrowseruser_idset_id]
Please feel free to modify the plugin to include tags, and other parameters of pictobrowser. 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).
Here is the plugin in action (these are photos of Myvatn, Iceland):
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61 Responses to “Flickr pictobrowser plugin for wordpress”
July 28th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Hi,
Thanks for this extremely useful plug in. Changin the values of
define(“PB_WIDTH”, 410);
define(“PB_HEIGHT”, 390);
I got the plugin the match the size of my content.
Invaluable…
Thanks,
Ricardo
July 28th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
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August 9th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
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August 27th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
thank’s a lot kumarasastry for this plugin! My headache cured since i found this page of yours
Thank u again..
August 30th, 2007 at 6:15 am
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August 30th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
This is awesome!
would it be ok if we add a link to this site from pictobrowser.com?
Best,
Diego
August 30th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Diego
Sure thing! Thanks in advance for linking my site. Pictobrowser is an amazing slideshow tool, thanks for developing it.
Kumara
September 24th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
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September 26th, 2007 at 3:10 am
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September 26th, 2007 at 11:48 am
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October 5th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Works fine in Firefox, but not in IE6. Any ideas?
Many thanks.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:46 am
Has anyone had luck altering Pictobrowser’s interface at all? I’d like to remove the “Photo Link” hyperlink that shows to the right side of each caption. Also, is anyone running Pictobrowser without the frame around it? (It shows up on any page that doesn’t have a white background.) I’d love to run it without. Thanks! Tom
December 5th, 2007 at 3:09 am
This plugin doesn’t seem to work on Pages either
December 6th, 2007 at 2:42 am
The plugin will work on pages. Check the page template in the theme you are using.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Is there a way to include multiple sets in one view, not have to have a big square for each set?
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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January 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
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January 18th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
does anyone know if there is a way to affect the Alpha? i tried bgAlpha=\”8\” but it didn’t seem to work
January 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I know my credibility might be shot with #$%^ing up the pages comment earliet, but i haven’t been able to figure out how to use this plugin to post a group or pool. I even went into the source and replaced ‘sets’ with ‘groups’, and it doesn’t seem to be rendering at all.
An update that can address this would be much appreciated!
January 27th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Super plugin but I cannot use it because it didn’t work in IE!!! Can anybody tell me why?
January 28th, 2008 at 4:42 am
@Tom, pictobrowser uses flash and therefore doesn’t allow for the changes you are looking for. You might want to contact the developers of pictobrowser.
@Kate, currently flickr API (which is used in pictobrowser) doesn’t support display of collections. Therefore, you cannot in general display multiple sets. However, if you have multiple sets with a particular tag, you can then show multiple sets using that tag. If you want to use the tag, you need to modify the plugin to use tag instead of sets.
@gfxmonkey, I am not sure what Alpha are you referring to?
@Jeremy, to include groups, you need to edit the plugin source (flickrPictobrowser.php) and add “&source=groups” instead of sets. Also remember to add the group id (not the name but an id) and use it instead of the set id. That is, once you edit the plugin source, you can add the photos using .
@Ibrahim and Eddie, you cannot see it in IE because of security settings in your IE. The plugin works on my webpage when viewed through IE on my home computer (IE 6 and IE 7).
February 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
does anyone know if there is a way to affect the Alpha? i tried bgAlpha=\”8\” but it didn’t seem to work
February 13th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
how do I get this to work with tags where the tags are keywords, not numbers?
February 14th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Hi, does this plug-in works on a mac? I am not sure how this will work, do you mind show me how to “install” it? Thanks!
February 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Hello,
I would like to use the picturebrowser plugin with files jpg hosted in my own server.
It’s possible?
Thanks. Josep
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:12 am
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Thanks so mucho for writing pictobrowser into wordpress. You have made a very clean, nice useful tool even more useful. I did alter it some so that I could use the zoom and pull the original sized file from flickr. Here is the altered code..
thanks again,
dave
added:
&imageSize=original
&initialZoom=on
&bgAlpha=90
&initialScale=on
changed: (to comply with site conventions)
PB_WIDTH = 600
PB_HEIGHT – 500
*/
define(“PB_WIDTH”, 600);
define(“PB_HEIGHT”, 500);
define(“PB_REGEXP”, “/\/”);
define(“PB_TARGET”, “”);
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Kumara,
This is fabulous! I used Diego’s “Pictobrowser Builder” at http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser/builder.php to make a slideshow with all the modifications I needed. Then I gingerly edited your plugin to match. Now I can work with WordPress pages and posts that contain a Pictobrowser without crashing my template. I still have to use the Builder to find out what my userID# and setID# is every time, but I’m guessing if I tried hard, I could find those on Flickr.
Anyhoo, thanks for making my life much easier.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:31 am
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April 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Just started using WordPress, and I’m so glad I came across your plug in, Kumara. Thank you for making such a user-friendly, elegant way to show my flickr photos in my blog.
One suggestion for an improvement is to increase the font size of the image title and notes.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Hi there,
Know anyone which plugin to use if I want only a part of the article to be displayed? If someone want to read more there will be a “read more” link…
On my blog right now is displayed all of article content and I don’t want this…
I’m talking about the latest 10 articles displayed on the first page of my blog.
I’m using WordPress.
Can anyone help?
July 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
thanks…
July 16th, 2008 at 2:37 am
I see the post:
The plugin will work on pages. Check the page template in the theme you are using.
but what am I looking for to make it work?
July 31st, 2008 at 2:12 am
Thansk. Very good pulign.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Hi – I am very new to WordPress, and I have never used Plugins before.
I have downloaded and activated the plugin, but don’t know where I am supposed to insert the code!
(from the example)
I’ve tried putting into index.php but I think I may be barking up the wrong tree!
August 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
that big white space in the above post is just where I pasted the code I was referring to (with the Flickr Id etc)
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September 7th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I <3 Pictobrowser and have been looking for an easier way to embed ‘em without having to modify settings each time. This looks like the ticket, and I shall try it out. Thx!
October 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Hi Kumara, thanks for the great plugin. This solved my WordPress problem. When i paste the code from the Pictobuilder into the WP editor, the editor replaced the “&” with & AAAARGHH….
But with your plugin the problem was solved.
Something nice to know!!
If you Ad: &initialScale=on &imageSize=original to you Flashvars VALUE and the image will be fullscreen in the placeholder you defined.
Greetz,
Adam Hoogendam
October 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
thanks for this great solution! And just to clarify, since I was having this (newbie) problem – I just took this line:
placed it in my blog post where I want the pictobrowser to go, then found the user_id and set_id from the original pictobuilder and put in the values. I left the [] around the set and all is well.
Thank you!
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November 19th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Hi Kumara,
Thank you for your hard work!
For some reason I cannot get the pictobrowser plugin to work. Your Flickr (the iframe version) works fine for me though.
My page I am working on is at http://visualpique.thinkpinkcreative.com/?page_id=3 I used the exact same user and set ids and just put them on top of each other:
The pictobrowser one just shows the code verbatim rather than calling out your plugin.
Some other questions:
- Is there any way to get the slideshow to autoloop rather than ask at the end if I want to see them again?
- Is there any way to change the default time each photo is shown instead of the 5 seconds it usually is?
- And, is there any way to change the background color?
Thank you again for your time. – Caro
November 19th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I am so sorry for cluttering up your comments area! Well, it is strange, both work fine on your site
Another question (sorry, i have so many!):
- is there any way to enable autoplay and loop in Pictobrowser?
- is there any way to keep the Notes area visible at all times rather than just when mousing over the Notes link?
- is there a way in either plugin to call out photos by a tag amongst a user’s photos?
Thanks again for your time, and apologies again for cluttering up your page
– Caro
November 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hi again,
OK, I just figured out why the pictobrowser plugin was not working for me: I looked under the HTML of the page and for some reason it had inserted
before and after every single word / id number! After deleting those it worked fine.Well, still curious about my questions above if you have time to answer them. I’m sorry, I’m such a noob!
- Caro
December 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
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January 22nd, 2009 at 5:39 am
Ive tried but i cannot open the plugin file. Please advise on how to do it. Thanks.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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May 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Help! I don’t understand how to do this. can you/someone pls explain where I save the plugin to, and how do i then activate it from WordPress. V keen to use but need basic help!
Thx
Georgeina
June 30th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Hi,
can you guys enable viewing also private photos, especially by tags? Is it possible?
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 am
@greenminute, Flickr API to doesn’t allow for viewing private photos. Tags could be easily done by changing the plugin.
@Georgeina, save the plugin to wp_content/plugins directory and then go to the Plugin managment tab in wordpress and activate it.
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November 18th, 2009 at 1:35 am
great plug-in, just one question. when using the WordPress PictoBrowser Plug-in, my dropdown submenu shows up behind the gallery. is there a way to set z-index so it would show up behind any submenu.
also many flash objects still show up in front because the background needs to be set transparent.
like in Kimili Flash Embed Tag Generator Plug-in, in which you need to set the wmode to transparent for it to display correctly.
November 29th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
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December 24th, 2009 at 6:37 am
is there a way to the number of photos shown? I’d like to limit to 50 photos if the photostream I’m using is over 500.
thanks!
December 24th, 2009 at 6:37 am
is there a way to reduce the number of photos shown? I’d like to limit to 50 photos if the photostream I’m using is over 500.
thanks!
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