Flickr slideshow plugin for wordpress (μ)
1 July 2007Since “object” and “iframe” are stripped out of wordpress-μ 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). See it in action 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:
[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!
14 Responses to “Flickr slideshow plugin for wordpress (μ)”
July 7th, 2007 at 11:40 am
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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 3:33 pm
@Gifted Typist, you can add
[flickruser_idset_id]anywhere in your blog post. For example, consider my blog post: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/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 6:43 pm
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July 18th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
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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 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 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 8:45 am
I have tried both plugins, and found that the object plugin works fine on Firefox 2.0 but not at all on IE 6.0, and the iframe-based plugin functions on both but only includes 2 of the 10 images in my Flickr set (all 10 show up in the slideshow on Firefox). Anyone else come across this and/or have a fix?
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:50 am
Well, now I have just found out that all 10 show up on my Firefox 2.0.05, but not others’ exact same version. ???
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 am
I couldn’t reproduce this issue (Firefox showing only some of the photos in the photoset). I had firefox 2.0 when I first started using the plugin, and have since upgraded to 2.0.05. I also don’t get any problems with IE 6.0 and IE 7.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
Julie, I just checked your website (http://www.shebazzle.com/) and see that you embedded set 72157600951749206. From your flickr page I see that the set 72157600951749206 (2007 Ethnic Arts Festival) has only 2 photos. So the correct behavior is that it should show only 2 photos and thats what I see. I also checked with ie6 and ie7 and I see 2 photos which is the correct behavior.