54 Comments

1. Willo
   Posted April 8, 2010 at 1:13 am | Permalink

   Hi there!

   This is a great plugin, that I’m excited to use, but I’m having problems similar to others, getting the error message: “Flickr is currently unavailable.” (and no photos displaying)

   I tried adding a widget to the sidebar – then when that didn’t work, I tried a simple way of using the shortcode in a page: [flickrpress type=”rss” url=”http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[email protected]&lang=en-us&format=rss_200″ ]

   …and even tried a few variations on a more advanced way – which is the display I’d prefer: [flickrpress type=”sets” api_key=”XXXXhiddenXXXX” account=”[email protected]″ view=”square” paging=”true” lightbox=”true” columns=”5″]

   I am having success using my API key with other plugins, it just seems that this one’s not working.

   Any guidance you can offer would be greatly appreciated. ~ Willo

   p.s. Once working, will my detailed type=”sets” shortcode list the names of the sets with that display?

   • Willo
     Posted April 8, 2010 at 1:19 am | Permalink

     I fixed the view=”squares” & tried this:

     [flickrpress type=”rss” url=”http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[email protected]&lang=en-us&format=rss_200″ account=”[email protected]″ view=”squares” lightbox=”true”]

     still no worky.

     But, I was able to get the widget working with RSS. However, I’d like to be able to display photosets w/ titles (if this plugin does that)

     Thanks :)

     • Michael
       Posted April 8, 2010 at 10:24 am | Permalink

       Hi Willo,

       The best way to figure out what’s going on is by looking in your server’s error log (how you do that depends on your host – on mine, Site5, the error log appears in the WordPress folder; on others, you access it through a web interface). If you can’t get to it, open up the file includes/interface.php in the plugin’s folder, and change the error_log part on line 22 to echo – then any messages will be printed to the screen.

       • Willo
         Posted April 8, 2010 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

         Thanks so much for your reply, Michael!

         I’m going to let this one go & go with Flickr Photo Album: http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/

         Thanks again & all the very best, w

2. Aaron
   Posted April 8, 2010 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

   Hey Michael,

   I followed your inst fro Willo…here’s what the echo error is reporting… “tent/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php:190 (flickrpress_load_items_rss()): RSS load of failed Flickr is currently unavailable.”

   Any thoughts on this one? Again, your really helping me out, Thank You!

   A

   • Aaron
     Posted April 8, 2010 at 5:47 pm | Permalink

     that above error was for a screwed up shortcode…

     I changed it back to ” [flickrpress type=”sets” api_key=”c4e09e3bfb28434abf717c4e4f3294d6″ account=”RocketCity4x4″ view=”squares” count=”10″ lightbox=”true”]

     and now there isnt an echo’d error log….just says flickr is currently unavailable again…

     • Aaron
       Posted April 8, 2010 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

       Should I alter the rss request in the php? or should I ad the rss url to the shortcode maybe?

       man Im learning way too much, getting dangerous! LOL

       • Aaron
         Posted April 8, 2010 at 6:01 pm | Permalink

         GOT IT WORKING! sort of…..LOL

         Had to alter the shortcode type=”” setting….to rss, photostream also worked…but only after i added url”” to the values and copied the rss url into the shortcode there…

         *****However….. the lightbox feature isn’t working properly….

         please see here… http://rocketcity4x4.com/test/gallery/pics

         it opens up 2 lightboxes..one with an extra vertical sidebar of the other pics….

         thougths?

         A

3. Aaron
   Posted April 8, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

   UPDATE: GOT THE LIGHTBOX FUNCTIONALITY WORKING!!!!

   had to add the shortcode parameter for columns=”3″ and change the count from 10 to 9….

   but its alive! Lots of styling to do to get it fitting properly….

   I’d like to thank you one more time Michael. I really appreciate it.

   a

   • Aaron
     Posted April 8, 2010 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

     Ok,

     it appears that there is aconflict between thickbox and lightbox preventing the lightbox functionality from working properly….

     Thickbox is included with wordpress install now i gues, cause i venre installed it…

     how could I get rid of thickbox?

4. Aaron
   Posted April 8, 2010 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

   it appears that thickbox is included in the wp-ecommerce plugin…and thats who’s calling it into the mix…

   anythoughts on getting around this issue?

   • Aaron
     Posted April 8, 2010 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

     Ok, its dead again…im fried.

     no lightbox functionality at all…

     using the following shortcode: [flickrpress type=”rss” api_key=”c4e09e3bfb28434abf717c4e4f3294d6″ account=”RocketCity4x4″ url=”http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[email protected]&lang=en-us&format=rss_200″ view=”large” count=”9″ columns=”3″ lightbox=”true” paging=”true”]

     link to problem:(new location) http://rocketcity4x4.com/test/gallery/

5. Teg
   Posted April 8, 2010 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

   Hi Michael,

   Thanks for letting me know how to view the server error messages. So with RSS selected as the source feed, I get the following error message:

   blog/wp-content/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php:190 (flickrpress_load_items_rss()): RSS load of http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[email protected]〈=en-us&format=rss_200 failed

   Switching the plugin to API key, I get the following error message:

   blog/wp-content/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php:146 (flickrpress_load_items()): Couldn’t get photo URL for user:

   Please help! Many thanks in advance

   Teg

6. Aaron
   Posted April 8, 2010 at 10:41 pm | Permalink

   Got it working by deactivting the lightbox2 plugin, and installing/activating shadowboxjs…

   however, shadowboxjs is limiting the functionality to one page, even if the same feed overflows to multiple pages…

   the battle rages on.

   a

7. Bruno
   Posted April 11, 2010 at 10:41 am | Permalink

   Hi, why not adding the option to show pictures from the whole flickr community, simply filtering them “by tag”? I’m creating a small blog for an even smaller village :-), and I’d like to display pictures with the tag “preggio” regardless of the account, group, photostream, and so on. And maybe even an option to display pictures taken “by place” could be nice (i.e. something like http://www.flickr.com/places//Italy/Umbria/Preggio). Thank you, have a great day!

   • Michael
     Posted April 11, 2010 at 11:24 am | Permalink

     That’s a good idea, Bruno – I’ll add it to my ‘to do’ list.

   • Michael
     Posted April 17, 2010 at 9:28 am | Permalink

     Hi again, Bruno – I had a thought that didn’t occur to me before, strangely: Most Flickr listings come with RSS feeds. So, unless you want random display from all photos in that list that were ever taken (or the ability to navigate through them all), you can add the RSS feed in Flickrpress, and that’ll display the latest photos.

     The link to the RSS is usually at the bottom – in the case of the Preggio places listing, it’s entitled “Latest”.

8. Aaron
   Posted April 14, 2010 at 5:58 pm | Permalink

   So how could I just replace the lightbox finctionality with thickbox…?

   This is the best flickr plugin, and fits my needs perfectly, but the other requirement I have of using the wp-ecommerce plugin is forcing thickbox and displaying a vertical column of thumbnails within the thickbox overlay aswell….

   Michael, thanks.

   a

9. Rev. Voodoo
   Posted April 16, 2010 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

   I dig the plugin, its working great for me! Looks and functions perfectly. My one concern is over validation of my site. I’m kind of a stickler for having a valid page. When I turn on flickrpress, my site throws a bunch of errors and warnings. I’ll include a link to the validator results, but just wondering if I’m doing something wrong, if its something I can clean up, or if it’s something I have to live with? Thanks in advance!

   Validator Results

10. soren bjoern-anderse
    Posted April 17, 2010 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

    Hi there. Nice plug-in, however I get this error on my site above the pictures from Flickr: Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /hsphere/local/home/namenloss/hippiephobia.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php on line 257 Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /hsphere/local/home/namenloss/hippiephobia.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php on line 257

    2nd question: Is there some way/ setup to have the pluging sort pictures that are mixed between landscape and portrait format? Right now it looks a bit messy

11. The House of Husar
    Posted April 24, 2010 at 7:38 am | Permalink

    Nice idea but this plugin doesn’t work. I get “Flickr is currently unavailable”. I did as instructed but still no luck. My feed is http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623919939928&[email protected]&lang=en-us

    No reason why that shouldn’t work when plugged in to the widget. Unless I have the feed link wrong which doesn’t seem to be the case.

12. Kermit Woodall
    Posted April 25, 2010 at 5:48 pm | Permalink

    Hi Michael,

    I’m getting the dreaded, ” Flickr is currently unavailable.” and my error log shows:

    [25-Apr-2010 11:17:49] wp-content/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php:190 (flickrpress_load_items_rss()): RSS load of failed

    Which appears to me to be missing the RSS feed that I’ve seen some people show in that error.

    I’m currently using the API method but I’m hoping this might help you track down a bug. I’ve seen others show no RSS Feed in the error as well. And I do have an RSS Feed in the widget. BTW. I’m using it as a widget. :)

    Kermit Woodall http://kermitwoodall.com

13. Doug C.
    Posted April 27, 2010 at 10:21 am | Permalink

    I was always getting the “Flickr is currently unavailable” myself. What I did was choose the “Favorites” option and just entered my Flickr username. For some reason the widget always hangs on the other options. I had to delete this widget today because it was slowing down the load times of my pages anyway. Looking for something else now.

14. Benjamin Knight
    Posted May 4, 2010 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

    I’m having trouble where this widget is taking so long to load that it’s causing my home page to load very slowly. It would be nice if there was an option for the flickr data to be read in through AJAX so that the loading occurs after the rest of the page content has already been loaded.

    • Michael
      Posted May 4, 2010 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

      Hi Benjamin,

      That’s a very good idea – I’ll add it to the todo list

      Cheers!

15. Cas
    Posted May 4, 2010 at 11:02 pm | Permalink

    Doug C.- using the username instead of the email worked for me as well – THANKS!

16. Dave C
    Posted May 6, 2010 at 8:09 am | Permalink

    Could I get an example on how to get this to work using php code?

    • Michael
      Posted May 6, 2010 at 10:19 am | Permalink

      Absolutely: <?php flickrpress(array("type" => "rss", "url" => "http://flickr.com/blah/blah.rss&quot;, "count" => 20)) ?>

17. Nancy
    Posted May 21, 2010 at 9:14 pm | Permalink

    hi Michael,

    is there anyway to install flickrpress on wordpress.com?

    thanks for your help!

    cheers! Nancy

    • Michael
      Posted May 29, 2010 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

      Hi Nancy! I’m afraid I actually have absolutely no idea! I’ve never used a hosted WordPress account, so I’m unsure about how it all works. It may be worth posting the question on the WordPress forums, though. Good luck!

    • Crispy King
      Posted June 6, 2010 at 6:24 am | Permalink

      Nancy,

      You should be able to install the plugin automatically through your admin section -> under ‘Plug-ins’ – ‘Add New’ Then search for FlickrPress and follow instructions to install and activate

      Cheers

18. Dave C
    Posted May 28, 2010 at 6:39 am | Permalink

    Wondering how I can call different Container Styles? I have a few uses for this plugin, but all have different float values (left,right,center)

    • Michael
      Posted May 29, 2010 at 2:35 pm | Permalink

      Hi Dave,

      How are you using the plugin – with widgets, or within a page using a shortcode (or in the template with the PHP function)?

      If you’re using a shortcode/PHP function, you could wrap the call within a div, and style it using the div’s identifier. Depending on your theme, you should be able to style widgets using their unique identifier (like, say, #flickrpress-12334567) – have a look at the page source to figure out what selector to use to address the individual widget.

      • Dave C
        Posted May 29, 2010 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

        A little bit of both actually! PHP for my front page, and then another page which would have both shortcode and PHP. Do you have a small example I could use? I’m a bit slow on the uptake but can modify nicely what I see for examples. Dave

      • Michael
        Posted June 6, 2010 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

        Try:

        <div id="my-flickrpress-id"><?php flickrpress(array( /* options go here */ )) ?></div>

        Then, in your stylesheet:

        my-flickrpress-id { /* Your styles go here */ }

        For the widget, just “View Source” in your browser, and look for the flickrpress widget – exactly what markup appears around it is dependent on your theme.

19. Crispy King
    Posted June 6, 2010 at 6:30 am | Permalink

    Michael

    Thanks for this … works perfectly !!

    I spent a frustrating amount of time going through various other (buggy and conflicting) plugins and options trying to get a more dynamic rotating header which is fed from my Flickr photostream – this does the job fine (on a page with the php code)

    Cheers :o)

    • Michael
      Posted June 6, 2010 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

      Excellent! That’s good news =)

20. Dukiejc
    Posted June 8, 2010 at 9:41 pm | Permalink

    Michael, This is a great plugin! It works great for me but I was wondering if there is a way to scroll through your entire photoset from the lightbox? Basically, I set it to show 3 thumbnails in the sidebar and the lightbox only shows those 3 images. Is there a way to not have to click “next” to get the next set of 3 thumbs? thanks -dukiejc

21. Stéphane Boisvert
    Posted June 18, 2010 at 1:02 am | Permalink

    I’ve added support for setids using the option set_ids by changing around line 309 of interface.php by adding one line and modifying another.

    added this line: $setIds = explode(‘,’, $options[‘set_ids’]); modified to this line: if ( in_array(strtolower($set[‘title’]), $setTitles) || in_array(($set[‘id’]), $setIds) ) {

    Here is the finished work starting around line 309 inside function flickrpress_load_items_sets of interface.php:

    if ( !$sets || (time() - $options['set_data_cache_time']) > FLICKRPRESS_CACHE_MAX_AGE ) {
        // Need to compile a list of set ids from the list of set titles
        $sets = array();
        $setTitles = array_map(create_function('$a', 'return strtolower(trim(strip_tags($a)));'),explode(',', $options['sets']));
        $setIds = explode(',', $options['set_ids']);
        $flickrSetList = $flickr->photosets_getList($accountId);
        if ( $flickrSetList === false )  {
            FPERR("Couldn't load set list: ".$flickr->getErrorMsg());
            return array();
        }

    foreach ( $flickrSetList['photoset'] as $set ) {
        if ( in_array(strtolower($set['title']), $setTitles) || in_array(($set['id']), $setIds) ) {
            $sets[] = $set;
        }
    }
    
    $options['set_data'] = $sets;
    $options['set_data_cache_time'] = time();
    

    }

    Hope it can be of use for someone else, and maybe even be added to the plugin.

    Thanks for the great plugin!

    -Steph

22. darren
    Posted June 27, 2010 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    i asked over on wordpress.org, but i’ll add it here too :)

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/414889

    i’m wondering if its possible to call the new 640px flickr image, rather than the 500px image?

    thanks for the amazing plugin!

    darren.

23. erwin
    Posted June 30, 2010 at 7:54 am | Permalink

    This is a really great plugin for WordPress! Thanks so much for making this available. I was wondering if you could add a boolean function to the tag search on the photostream, like “OR” “AND”?

    Thanks.

24. TMik
    Posted July 8, 2010 at 7:21 pm | Permalink

    I installed the plugin and had it was working great for a while. I’m now getting a virus alert in the browser with the plugin. I confirmed it was the plugin triggering the virus, but not sure if its the actual plugin code, Flickr API or something else.

    Here the link of the notice: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://gwennshop.cz/images/nq2zs/p002_1_03.php&client=googlechrome&hl=en-US

    • Michael
      Posted July 8, 2010 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

      Hi TMik,

      It seems to me that it’s pretty unlikely that this has anything to do with the plugin, by my estimation – the URL you mention, ‘/images/nq2zs/p002_1_03.php’ doesn’t look like anything that this plugin would produce. What makes you think it’s specifically the plugin, and not that you’ve just been hacked?

      Cheers, Michael

      • TMik
        Posted July 8, 2010 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

        Michael – You’re right. Sorry for the misinformation. Turns out is was just a coincidence that the virus message was appearing when the plugin was activated.

        I do love the plugin and it works great with no problems. Again, my apologies and nice job on the plugin.

25. Chris
    Posted July 15, 2010 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

    On the widget for the sidebar, I keep getting the error (flickrpress_load_items()): Couldn’t get account: Invalid auth token

    But I’m using an API key that works for another app. I even received another Flickr API and entered that into the widget, but I still get the error.

    Any ideas?

26. Oliver
    Posted July 21, 2010 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    Im having a problem with the plugin where i always get the error: Flickr is unavailable. I switched it to echo the errors and got the following:

    wp-content/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php:190 (flickrpress_load_items_rss()): RSS load of feed://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[email protected]&lang=en-us&format=rss_200 failed

    It is added to the site as a widget. It worked perfectly on my old hosting, but since i moved the site to new hosting and a new domain name it doesn’t work.

    Any suggests would be greatly appreciated!

    Many Thanks.

    • Michael
      Posted July 21, 2010 at 7:41 pm | Permalink

      Hello – “feed://” isn’t a valid scheme. You need “http://”

      • Oliver
        Posted July 21, 2010 at 9:43 pm | Permalink

        Excellent! Been playing with my mind for ages!

        Thanks Very Much.

27. The House of Husar
    Posted July 24, 2010 at 7:23 am | Permalink

    Been doing some testing to figure out why for some only the Favorites option works. Everything other option gave me the dreaded, “Flickr is currently unavailable” message.

    Here is what I was able to find that might help many other. It appears that the order of your feed options breaks FlickrPress. Using the widget this works…

    http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?&[email protected]&lang=en-us&set=72157623919939928&format=rss_200

    This didn’t work….

    http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?set=72157623919939928&[email protected]&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

    But here is the really strange part. After I switched the order and made sure the ‘nsid’ was the first option and got it working I went back and put the ‘set’ in front. Every time after that the plugin worked.

    Oddly this was also the case with the short code as well. Very strange.

    So if you do get the message and can’t get anything to load from flickr try formatting your RSS link like so with the ‘nsid’ first and not the ‘set’ first like flickr gives you…

    http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photoset.gne?&[email protected]&lang=en-us&set=72157623919939928&format=rss_200

    • Michael
      Posted July 24, 2010 at 12:23 pm | Permalink

      Great discovery! And…extremely bizarre. When I get a moment I’ll see if I can work a remedy into the plugin

28. Victor
    Posted August 1, 2010 at 6:16 am | Permalink

    Sorry Michael: I have tried every solution on here and I cannot get it to work. Still get the “Flickr is currently unavailable” message.

    Moving on.

    All the best.

29. sean
    Posted August 20, 2010 at 11:14 pm | Permalink

    Hi michael, thanks for the plugin, I’m finding it really useful, and no doubt will use it more as my new site develops. I’ve noticed that, on first opening the page in my browser (firefox), I occasionally (but regularly enough to be worrying) get the message “Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in “path removed/plugins/flickrpress/includes/interface.php on line 257″. If I refresh the page, the message goes away, and everything looks fine. I don’t see it again until I navigate away from the site, and back again, when it occasionally shows. Any ideas?

    Sean

    • Michael
      Posted August 30, 2010 at 5:22 pm | Permalink

      Hi Sean – That’s not a big deal: set_time_limit() is a function used to stop the script from falling over if it runs for too long. Your web server’s in safe mode, which disables it, so you may see the script die with an error for long (more than 30 seconds) operations.

30. Arcum
    Posted September 3, 2010 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    First of all – like your plugin…

    Second – I don’t seem to find any option to set the columns for widgets… so I did some tweaking myself…

    Added these lines to flickr.php

    under flickrpress_defaults (line 276); 'columns' => 4,

    and inserted this piece of code after line 561;

    <label for="flickrpress__columns"> <input type="text" id="flickrpress__columns" name="flickrpress[][columns]" size="4" value="" />

    And somehow I managed to get it working… :D