Flickr Album
I have made this Wordpress plugin that loads your photos from Flickr and makes an album of them on your blog. Read more about it here. You can also see it in action in my photos section. At the moment it’s little limited in features, but I’ll keep on developing it. I will try to consentrate on easy installation and usage.
If you have problems intalling or using this, you can post comments in this blog entry. Also give your opinions on how good or bad it actually is and if someone is even using it, let me know.
August 26th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Hähää, tulin häiriköimään..
Anyhow, as I also use wordpress, this flickr album thing is actually interesting. Has flickr worked okay for you? I found it’s a) annoyingly slow sometimes and b) didn’t have a convenient tie-in to wordpress and thus ended up hosting my own photos. Maybe I should take another look at it as an alternative storage space or something.
August 26th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
Wohoo! First ever comment on my blog.
I’ve used my plugin for some time and it seems to work pretty well. It caches Flickr images to database so it makes it a bit faster. I’ve tryed to make it easy to install and manage. Give it a try and let me know what you think. The downside is that it uses photosets and in free Flickr accounts photosets are limites to only three. I’m thinking about some solution to work around that.
September 4th, 2005 at 1:08 am
I’ve made some updates to the album. Now it should have all basic features. Installation should be also easier now. All feedback is appreciated…
September 5th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
hi,
i followed the instuctions and when i clicked the flicker album on my admin panel it showed me a bad link screen !, i dont know why has the happened !i would appreciate ur help
thanks
September 5th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Hi!
I will look into this problem right away. Btw… what version of Wordpress are you using? So far I’ve only tested FlickrAlbum with WP 1.5.1.3.
September 5th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
hi again , thanks its V1.5
September 5th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
Hi MaX,
So far I haven’t figured out your problem. Could you please describe it a bit more? What did the error message say exactly? Did the problem occur when you tried to activate the plugin or was it when you went to the options page? You can also mail me directly if you want. My email is teemu.harju@gmail.com
September 5th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
hi,
no its afer i activated the plugin, when i click on flicker album to to do the sittings, it takes me to an error page which says The page cannot be found !
September 5th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
HTTP 404 NOT FOUND
September 6th, 2005 at 9:26 am
Ok… I’ve got still one question.
What does the link show on the status bar or on the address bar when you press it?
For me it is like this
http://www.mydomain.net/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=FlickrAlbum.php
September 6th, 2005 at 11:29 am
I get this following error
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.ogunsanwo/makkigui/makkistudios.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/FlickrAlbum/FlickrAlbum.php on line 326
Please advise
September 6th, 2005 at 12:39 pm
To Makki…
I’ll try to figure out that problem as well.
To anyone who is using this plugin on a Windows based server there is a bug in the phpFlickr code that might cause the FlickrAlbum not to work. Check http://www.phpflickr.com for instructions. I will fix this in the next release that will come soon.
September 6th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
hi again,
its http://mydomain.com/WordPress1/wp-admin/FlickrAlbum.php
September 6th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
I released a version 1.0.2 that includes some bugfixes. At least the problem that Makki was having should be fixed now.
I made these fixes late this evening so I hope I didn’t create any new bugs.
That issue that MaX is having must have something to do with a older Wordpress version because the link is wrong on the admin panel. I need to find me some older version of Wordpress so I can test it.
September 8th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
i was wondering if its to do with file’s permission numbers?
September 9th, 2005 at 10:52 am
I don’t think it has to do with permissions, because that link is wrong. It should be Wordpress1/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=FlickrAlbum.php
Have you got some other plugins work that use the options panel? If you have, let me know what those are so I can check how they are implemented.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:14 am
getting the same error as makki with the new version 1.02 but this on has the error on line 380 instead of 326
September 9th, 2005 at 11:51 am
Oh… I thought that it was fixed. I’ll look in to this too. I’m gessing though that you have only one photoset and that causes the error or you haven’t set the default image for the photoset. As a quick fix I’m suggesting you to create another phototset in Flickr or check that the default image is set and then it should work. I’ll fix this problem as soon as I get home from work.
Sorry for the inconvenience… the error resulted because phpflickr api works a little different than I thought. I will fix this tonight and then during the weekend I’ll try to squeeze in some new features also.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Released version 1.0.3. I tried to fix the reported bugs, but if you still experience problems send me your Flickr username so I can test what causes the problems.
Now also previous and next photos are loaded in the browsers cache while browsing photos.
September 10th, 2005 at 1:13 am
Hey Teemu,
I found your site through my referrer logs and I’m glad to see that you’ve developed this plugin. I was working on one, but I may just snag yours and customize it a little ;). Would you mind if I linked to your page from my website? I’m always happy to know that people are finding uses for phpFlickr.
September 10th, 2005 at 10:31 am
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the phpflickr. It works great. A link on your site would be cool too.
This album of mine is still sort of under development so I don’t mind few more people testing it and giving me feedback. You can use it and modify it anyway you like and if you have ideas for improvements or features just let me know.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:50 am
Hi there,
I am using your Plugin too and I really like it, but it always gives me this error on the frontpage:
Warning: ob_start(): output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ cannot be used after ‘URL-Rewriter’ in /kunden/progera.de/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 585
Could you help me with that?
September 15th, 2005 at 2:55 am
Hi Teemu!
Hey, I installed this plugin!
LOVE IT!
Only one problem.
Might not be a big issue but sort of my preferance. Not sure if anybody else is having this problem.
I don’t have the album description next to my album. Instead, I have this huge gap separated by LONG grey solid line.
Any idea how I could fix this?
Any help would be appreciated!
September 15th, 2005 at 11:09 am
To Mark…
I’ll try to fix your bug as well. Though at the moment I don’t have any idea what might cause this. If you have some other plugins installed also you migh want to disable those for a while and see if the same error appears. Then try activating other plugins one at a time to see what is causing this error. I think this might be some sort of interoperability bug.
To La Bella…
Nice to hear that you like the plugin.
It’s always nice to have positive feedback. The problem you are having is caused by the fact that Flickr Album doesn’t work too well with other themes than Kubrik yet. But I’ve been fixing this problem already. I’ve made it so that it’s possible to use temlates that are easy to edit so you can change the way the album looks. This is good specially for the different themes. I think I can have new version released this weekend.
September 17th, 2005 at 1:27 am
Hi Teemu,
thanks for looking into that bug. I have disabled all other plugins and the error occurs only with your plugin.
It also only occurs on first page load, when I refresh the page the bug seems to be gone.
September 19th, 2005 at 11:16 am
Teemu! Thank you!
I will check back for that update!
I appreciate your time and info!
September 25th, 2005 at 5:15 am
How’s that update coming along..?
September 26th, 2005 at 11:48 am
The update is coming soon (I hope…)
I’ve been bit busy last week. I’ve been trying to make the template system easy to use. Anyway it seems like every theme will need it’s own template, but I’ll see if I can make it so that not too much editing will be needed.
Here is a quick fix to your problem if you want to try to edit your css-style sheet while waiting for the new release…
Open FlickrAlbumStyles.css file and edit width parameters on lines 5,40,48 and 56. On line 5 is the total width of your album and on the other lines is the width of the titles and descriptions etc. Change these little wider (especially the one on line 40) and then your album should work little better.
October 11th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Hi Teemu,
The plugin you have provided is the best of all the flickr plugins available… I am using it on my site here
Only thing that I am not sure is how to put the layout… If you see the album here http://dewri.net/blog/photos/album/945623/ the photos are displayed after the album name and the links like “View slideshow” starts just after the last photo. I hope I’m not doing anything wrong
And thanks for the great plugin….
Cheers
Amar
October 11th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
Hi amar…
The problem you described is the same that La Bella mentioned in the earlier comments. I haven’t fixed that yet. The reason that the album shows like that is that the width of your site is wider than defined in the css-stylesheet. You can change the witdh parameter yourself if you want to by editing file FlickAlbumStyles.css. Check the end of my previous post.
I’m releasing a version that will fix this, but I’m kinda struggling with time atm because I’m starting to write my Master’s Thesis and I haven’t had much energy left for coding during last few weeks. But improved version is coming…
October 11th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Thanks for the update. I had almost figured it out :)…
Cheers
Amar
October 12th, 2005 at 3:31 am
Hi,
Finally I made it :). Have a look now…
Cheers
Amar
October 16th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
Hi Teemu, just wondering about the Friendly URLs… When it says I need to change permissions, permissions of what? What folder or file? Currently my .htaccess file is in the root directory, outside of the wp folder.
Thanks for this, by the way. I used to use FlickrGallery for a while until I messed it up, tried FAlbum but didn’t like it. Hopefully this one will work well for me.
October 16th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
Oh, and now I’m assuming I need to do that Yahoo thing, because it says my username is not found. (I entered in my e-mail address, as that’s what I use to log in to Flickr.) Am I right? So now I need to merge my Yahoo account and Flickr account?
October 17th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
Hi Aneesah..
You should have .htaccess file also in wp root folder. That is automatically created by wordpress i think. Of course you should have these friendly URLs enabled.
I haven’t tested with yahoo accounts yet. But I think it should work after “merging” the accounts. If it doesn’t let me know.
- Teemu
October 18th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Nah, the .htaccess file that wordpress writes to is outside of my /wp folder. It’s always been that way for me. I’m trying to see if making a new empty file and placing it in the /wp folder would work.
Nope. “Could not save .htaccess! You need to change permissions…” So it sounds like think I need to change permissions of some folder or something. =| Right now my photo links don’t work because while it’s supposed to be http://aneesah.pixelled.com/gallery/album/…. it turns to http://aneesah.pixelled.com//album/… =(
And yes, the merging with Yahoo works. =)
October 18th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
Hi again.. nice to hear that your yahoo account works also.
You probably need to check the wp folder permissions also. Maybe you can check what are the folder permissions on the folder that your .htaccess file is on and use same permissions on wp folder then.
Flickr Album uses as a default the wp folder to look for .htaccess file. I wasn’t even aware that it can be located in some other folder. Where do you set that folder in wordpress? In permalinks page there is no such setting.
October 19th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
I have checked the /wp permissions, even set it to 777 just in case. (Still doesn’t work.) I think when I set my blog address (in General Options) as http://aneesah.pixelled.com, it automatically uses the .htaccess file there.
Do you think there might be a workaround to this? WP is able to write stuff to that file for the permalinks with no problem…
October 28th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
So sorry to bug you again, but nothing works. There’s already a .htaccess file in /wp, the file and folder are both set to 777, … ;_; I don’t know what else to do. Perhaps there’s a way I can tell the plugin where my .htaccess is? Or just a way to insert the word “gallery” in the link URLs?
I appreciate all your help, thanks.
November 21st, 2005 at 6:24 pm
Hi,
I am testing this on my blog.
The first problem I am facing is ‘Friendly URLs’ is always showing the following message even if the .htacces is read/write. where as wordpress is able to write this file is Permanentlinks option.
Use friendly URLs: Could not save .htaccess! You need to change permissions…
The second problem is my page is not getting displayed properly, sidebar is moving down (see the page http://www.chanduonline.com/photos/). I don’t know whether this is problem with the Theme or the Album template
November 21st, 2005 at 6:37 pm
I solved the second problem mentioned above by changing the template file. But still some alignment problem inside the page. you can see it on the page
November 22nd, 2005 at 12:34 pm
I’ve been working with the template system for Flickr album, but as you can see, not much has happened recently. I’ve been to busy to develop this further during last few months. But I will continue doing this as soon as I get some more time off from other stuff. So keep on giving development ideas here…
January 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
First of all, thank you & great plugin! I was wondering if you could help me with a “width issue” between your Flickr Album plugin and the 3 column template I’m currently using? When choosing a photoset, then selecting one picture from the photoset to appear within the “blog,” you’ll notice that the far right sidebar’s content shifts down. How would I prevent this from happening without altering the template’s dimension. Can you modify the plugin? If so, how? Thank you!
January 13th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Hi Daniel,
Sorry that it took me this long to answer.
Yes, you can modify the plugin quite easily. I believe the best way to do it is by editing the stylesheet of the plugin. It’s the FlickrAlbumStyles.css file in the plugin folder. Just edit the first style definition there. If I remember right the width parameter there defines the width of your album. By default it is 450px. Let me know if this doesn’t work for you. Then I can try to figure out some other solution.
January 22nd, 2006 at 7:10 am
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