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How to use and integrate the Flickr Photo Album plugin into your WordPress blog.
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Super Cache CompatibilityIf you have the Super Cache plugin enabled, add the following code to your .htaccess, directly after the WPSuperCache section, but before the WordPress section. Replace /photos/ on the first line with the path to your photo album. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/photos/.*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</IfModule>Custom Photo CommentsThe plugin supports a couple third party commenting systems, replacing the comments left by Flickr users. These are free web services that allow your visitors to leave comments on your photos, without them having to login and register at Flickr. If you want to add your own commenting system, look inside the photoalbum-comments.html template file. To use a third party commenting system, instead of default Flickr comments, add the following to the TOP of your wp-config.php: For JS-Kit, add this code: (see the JS-Kit documentation for more options) define('TANTAN_FLICKR_COMMENTS', 'js-kit');For Disqus, add this code: define('TANTAN_FLICKR_COMMENTS', 'disqus');
define('DISQUS_SHORT_NAME', 'XXXX'); Note: if you already are using the Disqus commenting system for your normal blog posts, then you don't need the second DISQUS_SHORT_NAME line. If you just want to use Disqus for your photo comments (and not your normal blog posts), then replace XXXX with the short name of your site. The short name is listed on this admin screen. In the end, your wp-config.php should look something like this: <?php
define('TANTAN_FLICKR_COMMENTS', 'disqus');
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', '...');
... etc ...Popup Overlay SupportThe plugin comes bundled with 4 different display libraries, hosted on TanTanNoodles: Lightbox, Facebox, FancyZoom, and Fancybox. Here's a quick demo of these display libraries. These libraries are hosted for your convenience, you are encouraged to download these libraries and install them on your own server. If you already have a display library installed on your site and would like to use that instead of a bundled library, then you will need to modify this resource file (found in the templates directory). Follow the examples in that file (starting at around line 134) to tweak the PHP to fit your site. To use one of the hosted bundled display libraries, add the following to the TOP of your wp-config.php file: For Thickbox, add this code: (included by default with WP 2.5+) define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'thickbox');For Light Box, add this code: define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'lightbox');For Fancy Box, add this code: define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'fancybox');
For Face Box, add this code: define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'facebox');For Fancy Zoom, add this code: define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'fancyzoom');In the end, your wp-config.php should look something like this: <?php
define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'facebox');
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', '...');
... etc ...Notes:
Different sizes for the popup image can be set by adding this to your wp-config.php. define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_POPUP_SIZE', '--SIZE--');Replace --SIZE-- with either: Square, Thumbnail, Small, Medium, Large, Original. Look and Feel CustomizationNot all WordPress themes are created equal. The first thing you'll want to do is make sure the photoalbum-index.php template file closely matches your own theme's index.php or page.php. In particular, make sure any DIV tags in your own theme's files are reflected in the photoalbum-index.php.
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Hi, nice plug ! BUt i already have installed the lightbox plugin. How can i make your plug using it ? when i add : define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'lightbox'); to the wp-config i load 2 overlays at the same time !!
Thanks
what do i change in photoalbum-resources.php ...what path do i replace this with?
http://static.tantannoodles.com
the location of my wordpress directory on my own site?
The Flickr gallery plugin works great. I want to use LightBox? and have downloaded and enabled lightbox-2 (as well as wp-lightbox2). What else do I have to do to make Flickr gallery use lightbox? I don't understand.
I tried to use Fancyzoom.
I added this: define('TANTAN_DISPLAY_LIBRARY', 'fancyzoom'); and I installed fancyzoom from here http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html
but now???
Is there an existing guide to show us what files to update if we have already installed the plugin? I have it installed currently but did some extensive customization. Unfortunately its been a while ago and i cant remember what all files I messed with.
hi. i installed plugin but i can't views my album (error 404) when i follow link
http://www.mysite.it/photo/album/123456/page.html
is a .htaccess file problem?
i have the same err@@ i am also views my album but error 404
@ziegler.benjamin: I just had the same problem.
Here is how I solved it: In wp-admin you have to go to Settings -> Lightbox 2 and uncheck the option "Auto-lightbox image links".
How do you turn off paging?
Why does the title in my browser display "nothing found for albums"?
Is anyone having problems with the Flickr Plugin not randomizing their photos?
Hello, Why is it I cannot post my photos in my page? By the way I'm using WordPress? 2.6.2.
I couldn't make it show as in your examples. I copied all the files to my theme and still don't show anything.
Merci beaucoup l'integration lightbox et une turie ;) bravo
hey...
I'hve installed the tantan-flickr and i got this messege: In order to view your photo album, your WordPress? permalinks need to be set to something other than Default. what do i need to do ? please help me....:)
How can i use fancyzoom in my blog Photo album ? how to make a configure. iread everything. everything about lightbox. fancyzoom working great for my local pics http://blabla.com/blabla.pics but not working flickr pictures. any body help me please.
http://sifirarabam.com/photos/album/72157608420187646/yeniaraba.html
The shadowbox plugin will not work when I choose "Square" instead of "Thumbnail"
Hi, i wanna organize photo-album section in my blog in this way: - in the sidebar (different from default sidebar), a list (thumbnail+description) of all photo-sets existing - in the content window, all pixx of the current photo-set
What template-files should i use? How should i structure them? Thanx
Thanks for the great plugin, I'm using it at http://www.halleyhome.com and I'm right in the middle of customizing all the templates. Finding everything pretty easy to manipulate so far, thanks for the hard work!
hello mate
i have installed your plugin at http://www.cooking-outdoors.com/ I have used "Fancybox" setup.. I have inserted the code in to wp-config.php file too but still not working.. Can you please check the url and tell me the solution?
regards
Was someone able to use the ShadowBox? library? I have it installed as a wordpress plugin and would like to use it with TanTan?
I was using an older version of the plugin with WP 2.5. I finally made the jump to WP 2.7 and upgraded your plugin as well for the video support. I went back through and made the customizations to get it all to display correctly with my theme. The issue I am having is that when I click on an infidual photo to display it (not the flickr slideshow) it adds the image to the bottom of the current post and every post after that. I am at a loss for what to change to fix this and have it display one photo correctly. Any help would be grand!
Sue
I have 2 issues:
1. Sidebar widget won't load latest pictures. It's been over 7 hours.
2. Link below pictures that says, "View more photos" goes to the home page of my site, not Flickr.
Can anyone assist?
any suggestion to make the widget like this http://www.johnchow.com
I've installed this plugin on a site I'm working on and everything works fine, except that the listing of thumbnails in the first set displays as a vertical list. Check it out at st-marks.com/flickr
I've spent a couple hours trying to fix this issue, but I'm beginning to feel stumped. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?
my theme makes a menu of wp pages, how can I add a 'photo' page that links to the URL for the flickr directory created?
I have super cache installed. Where is the htaccess file so I can edit it?
How can I change the language on the sidebar at the bottom of the pictures? Relacing this link: "View more photos >
How to add widget manually from theme ? just like <php .......
I know this will make me sound like a newb, but this plug-in requires far too much manual customization to get it working with lightroom - why not just just include this on the settings page where you can select what pop-up layer you want to use?
Great idea, but still too much work.
I'm with Gabriel Tetrault. I spent 4 hours trying to work out your documentation. In the end I googled elsewhere, un-installed the plugin and removed all the files and used this - which is MUCH easier and better than the plugin outlined above: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-gallery/other_notes/
I recommend anyone with problems with the above plugin to use this.
can anyone help! im in the middle of the dillema.. how can install the fancybox! i just dont know how~ T_T
Hi, I really like your plugin and it is working great!
However, as you say: "These libraries are hosted for your convenience, you are encouraged to download these libraries and install them on your own server."
I would love to host the libraries myself, but I don't know how. Could someone please help me?
Nice plugin. When a photo is put into a post, the small size from Flickr is too small and the medium is too big (the content area is 700px). Is there a way to automatically resize the image to 700px width and retain the aspect ratio?
I love this plugin.. I may have to take some cycles out to look in to fixing the URLs it makes though.. I freakin HATE having ".html" or any flickr id info show up in my URLs..
Overall, this is an awesome plugin and inspite of really not liking the URLs, I still use it a lot - the rest of it makes up for that.
Feel free to ping me if you have tips on getting the URLs lookin epic - maybe I'm bein a n00b and jumping the gun, but I don't think there's any support yet for epic urls.
Cheers!
I love this plugin. How can I add it not as a widget but asa a php into a html or php file from my blog... Something like <?php tantan_flickr(); ?>. Is this possible?
Thanks
I love to use this plugin with lightbox.. showing flickr sets.. my only problem is... when adding a flickr set how do I prevent my blog showing all pictures from the set?? I just want one picture and the other need to be accessable through a lightbox overlay
Having trouble implementing this plugin.
Basically, I'm looking to display square thumbnails in a sidebar that gets it's content from a custom field on each page. I want the thumbnails to open a lightbox with the photo from Flickr. Think you can help me? Want to make a few bucks? Contact me at rob @ cloudesign .com because I need a bit of help!
legrand.nick - I believe if you mark the photo as private, and then select "don't show private" (or something to that effect) in the config that will work for you
Thanks for this Joe - you have done a great job and it is much appreciated. I have just sent you a donation and encourage other users to as well.
I can't figure out how to fix the CSS on my theme to make the thickbox overlay work -- the nav bar shows up in front of the picture: http://www.tatoddconstruction.com/photo-gallery/
Help!
kanne84@gmail.com
Any way to insert this manually into a template? <?php ... ?> ??
Hi, is there a way to include grab EXIF data from Flickr and show it in the photo descriptions?
I wish to show all of my groups in Flickr on my page. The max showing, I believe, is 400. I belong to 700 groups. Is there a way to at least paginate for every 200, 300, or 400? My page is http://oldschoolscholar.com/museum-galleries/ and it is popular with many people for cultural reason.
Thanks!
How to change the Thumbnail's size?Help!Thank you!
I can't set a password to the photo-album page,how can i do??
Thanks for a fantastic plugin! I have tried a heap of others and i simply couldn't get any of them to work the way i wanted! I have installed this and added the lightbox code and it is working perfectly!!! (It actually allowed me to remove some of the others I was running as well!).
Only question i have is in regards tot he sidebar widget, at the moment when someone clicks on an image in the sidebar widget it currently goes to the album specific page for that photo (which is exactly what it is meant to do), but I was wondering if it is possible to modify the code to allow either of the following:
1) When the user clicks in the sidebar I would like for it to load in a lightbox instead of going to a new page, this way it will have the same look and feel as when the user browse's the image gallery using lightbox.
2) if the first option is going to be to hard and require a lot of changes then is it possible to just make all photos in the sidebar link directly to the main gallery index page?
Hope this makes sense :) and thanks again!!!
i really love this plugin, but it's not pretty well ini my theme... anyone can help me.. i'm not to understand about html or css... please check here: http://obgynfkusu.com/gallery
suryakumara@gmail.com
I am running WordPress? 2.9.1 and I installed the tan tan Flickr Photo Album 1.1
When I am on the Photo Ablum Configuration page (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=tantan-flickr/flickr/class-admin.php), under the Flickr settings, I cannot "Configure your sidebar >." Clicking the "Enable the Flickr Widget for your sidebar" checkbox does not change anything.
It goes to this URL (http://plaingreen.blendinteractive.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=widgets/widgets.php) and dies with a permissions error:
Is this the right page? As the admin shouldn't I have the required permissions?
Several others have had problems with this, too. http://www.flickr.com/groups/tantannoodles/discuss/72157608253970046/
I have had really good luck with it here (http://siouxfallsjazzfest.com/photos/), and our clients can actually use it! But the sidebar widget does not work on this site, either (WP 2.8.4).
This fix WORKED!
Line 64 of "tantan-flickr/flickr/admin-options-flickrsettings.html" contains the following string:
Change this to:
Any advice on limiting the number of photos shown on the front page of the gallery template? The foreach loop in the code counts all of the photos from an album in the "highlight" div. I'd like to limit it to a specific number. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Is it possible to get the plugin working with the template files not in the root of theme directory, but in a subfolder?
How can I hardcode the size of the video player? the current default is too wide for my theme.
i installed plugin on wordpress 2.9.2, thesis theme 1.7, i have thumbnails from my flickr set but when I click on one I get a 404 error when I am expecting to get a larger image. http://daintytime.net/quilts/color-studies/
i installed and got my thumbnails but when I click on a photo it just go's to error I cant get them to pop open in light box. please help. Thanks http://blog.therandr.org/2010/06/bff-behind-the-show-photos/
i would like to remove the tags showing and also to have all the pictures already displaing on the page without have to click on the photo icon. as u understand i am not an expert so any help is really really appreciate it :-) here is how it looks now http://welovelondra.com/foto-e-video/ cheers
my photos show up on the actual post but in the list of archives the don't show up. how do i make it so theyre always visible so you don't have to click on the individual post to view them?
also i copied the code onto my wp-config and it is not making the face box effect happen. can someone point me to the troubleshooting?
Tried using Disqus for comments, but on each photo it shows the following message:
Disqus works OK for my blogs comments, so in my wp-config.php I used: define('TANTAN_FLICKR_COMMENTS', 'disqus');
Any ideas?
Luis
To change thumbnail size:
Copy the "photoalbum-albums-index-highlight.html" from the
change the following line:
echo TanTanFlickrDisplay?::photo($photo, array('size' => 'Square', 'scale' => 0.5, 'album' => $album, 'context' => 'gallery-index'));
the scale will multiply your current thumbnail size, so if you want to have 75px 75px thumnails instead of the current 37.5, set this to 1 instead of 0.5 like this:
echo TanTanFlickrDisplay?::photo($photo, array('size' => 'Square', 'scale' => 1, 'album' => $album, 'context' => 'gallery-index'));
You can play around with defining custom sizes in wp-config.php if you really feel like, but the above should do the trick.
I love this plugin, but I'd love it even more if child themes were supported. Any chances it's getting an update soon?
Hi,
Anyone knows how to link to the flickr .jpg image file?? Right now i selected the link to flickr, but it links to http://www.flickr.com/photos/username/5553083156/
How do i link to the .jpg file so i can use fancybox or shadowbox???
regards
some one live here? i cant see my album
http://www.agentia.com.mx/blog/galeria/album/72157627846456881/feria-del-empleo-udg.html
ERROR 404
why?
when I click on a photo it just go's to error I cant get them to pop open in light box http://makemixmoneyonline.com
I have a couple of errors I can't figure out.
1) None of the popup overlay features work correctly. No matter which one I use, it never loads the image. They just sit at the loading popup and never display the image.
2) In the popup for image insertion it defaults to "Original" size no matter what I set for "TANTAN_DISPLAY_POPUP_SIZE".
Any ideas?
how to i make the photoalbum-index.php the main page that loads on the domain and not the wordpress index.php?