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Plugin: Flickr Photo Album For WordPress

Posted By Marco On July 24, 2010 @ 00:39 In WordPress Stuff | No Comments

I finally found a new (and almost excellent) working plugin to integrate your Flickr photos and albums into your WordPress blog (see my photos page [1]):

After giving up on other plugins like Slickr Gallery [3] or Falbum [4], this one seems to work quite nicely (after adjusting the template, that is, which took quite some time).

Unfortunately, there are still at least two three issues:

  1. In the title bar, every child page to my photos page [1] shows a “404 File Not Found” error, although the page is being displayed correctly. It works well with the main “/photos/” link, since I have created a page with that name. I know this issue is a known bug, but has anyone found a solution to this, yet?
  2. Private photos can be excluded, but they are still counted, which means that e.g. one of my albums shows only one public photo, but can be clicked through 8 pages that show no photo at all. On top of that, the photo count (… – … of … photos) is wrong. How about not counting the private ones in the first place? This should solve the problem (because I think the paging is calculated by the number of photos altogether divided by the maximum number of photos shown on one page), but I don’t know where in the code the actual count is being made.
  3. In the tags template, “Umlaute” (ä, ö, ü) are not linked correctly, therefore e.g. clicking on “göttingen” leads to “g%C3%B6ttingen” – which, of course, does not result in a valid request (I have taken the tags from the main template so far).

I hope there will be an update soon that fixes those issues.


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URLs in this post:

[1] photos page: http://www.saphod.net/photos/

[2] tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/: http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/

[3] Slickr Gallery: http://www.saphod.net/2007/08/27/wordpress-plugin-slickr-gallery/

[4] Falbum: http://www.saphod.net/2007/06/17/falbum-causing-trouble-with-3-columns/