fssw

Wordpress Plugin to embed flickr slideshows into your blog.

You can find the original files as well at wordpress:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-slideshow-wrapper/

Many thanks to Cory Shubert who authorized me to use some of his pictures for the screen shots you can find in the deployment package and below!

Change-Log:
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download latest stable release:

31-12-2008: Version 4.7.5 (stable)
Final version for 2008, only minor changes on the documentation, no functional change. I wish my almost 3000 downloading users a Happy New Year. I got exactly 0,00 EUR of donation but the development was fun anyhow.

18-12-2008: Version 4.7.4 (stable)
Compatibility tested with Wordpress 2.7, all 2.7 RC and 2.8 alpha

17-12-2008: Version 4.7.3 (unstable)
~~Compatibility tested with Wordpress 2.7, all 2.7 RC and 2.8 alpha~~ not published.

16-11-2008: Version 4.7.2 (stable)
Compatibility with Wordpress 2.7 beta3 and newer

08-11-2008: Version 4.7.1 (stable)
Compatibility with Wordpress 2.7 beta2 and newer

25-10-2008: Version 4.7.0 (stable)
Compatibility with Wordpress 2.6.3

08-09-2008: Version 4.6.1 (stable)
Correction of parsing error in 4.6.0

07-09-2008: Version 4.6.0 (unstable)
Upon request from Álvaro Degives-Más this version now includes his code enhancement and allows you to use <slidef=XYZ> as synonym for <slidef=”XYZ”>.

03-08-2008: Version 4.5.1 (stable)
Integrated compatibility to new Wordpress 2.6.

14-07-2008: Version 4.5.0 (stable)
User Ben made the comment that square brackets can be used in both HTML and Visual view, instead of arrow brackets. I added for the set_id this new function in parallel to the original one.
Starting with this version you can now use:
<set_id=”72157606099554039″> OR
[set _ id=72157606099554039] (without the blanks before and after the underscore)
The latter having the advantages mentioned above and originally by Ben. If their is the need for the other tags to be changed, I’ll incorporate this as well, depending on any feedback I’ll get through emails or comments on this blog.

01-07-2008: Version 4.2.2 (stable)
final release.

15-06-2008: Version 4.0.7 (stable)
minor coding improvements.

08-06-2008: Version 4.0.5 (stable)
minor coding improvements.

31-05-2008: Version 3.8.0 (stable)
With <set_tag=”tag1, tag2, etc.”> your are able to compile your own tag-based set from flickr. Please refer to idgettr.com to get the relevant information. Some minor changes on stability and major changes on documentation.

27-05-2008: Version 3.7.8 (stable)
Small but effective change and fix to avoid redeclaration of functions in case of dirty installation or similar issues.

25-05-2008: Version 3.7.3 - 3.7.7 (stable)
Possibility to update automatically through Wordpress. If you encounter any issues by upgrading you should delete your original version and re-install 3.7.4.

24-05-2006: Version 1.2-3.7.3 (all unstable and deleted)

22-05-2008: Version 1.1 (stable)
Correction of the documentation.

18-05-2008: Version 1.0
First stable release.

Screenshots:
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This picture shows the possible settings:

And the following pictures shows how a slideshow can look like:

Clicking on a picture will show you the detailed view, from where you can jump into your flickr photostream:

FAQ:
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Q: I can’t seem to get Firefox to work. The plugin works on all other tested browsers that I have as well as Mac/PC, but Firefox on the Mac the Flickr plugin just errors saying no photo’s available.

A: You often have installed just a lot of plugins in your browsers, which can avoid FSSW to work correctly. FSSW itself is calling only standard Flash Slideshow from Flickr, hence most often and most probably any challenges occur due to errors on client-browser side. Please try first to disable all extensions.

I recommend you to ask as well Magic Donkey for testing your installation in principle an please use fantastic tool browsershots.org to get your installation tested in most common current browsers.

If you still encounter an issue, please post your question but please don’t forget to mention your browser release and version number and the OS you are using.

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Jeannot Muller on June 5, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Cory, good to hear!

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Ben on July 6, 2008 at 4:50 pm

This plugin works great in IE.

But I think it 100% does not work in any Firefox because Flickr’s javascript generates a permissions error within the iframe.

Has anyone managed to get this working in FF? Right now this is a show stopper.

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Jeannot Muller on July 9, 2008 at 12:11 am

Hi Ben,

sorry for my late reply, as I spend some time to move my page from Wordpress to ExpressionEngine. However I’ll continue to further support my fssw plugin.

Well it worked for me on Mac OS X 10.5.4 with Firefox 2.0.0.14. After some ‘google-ing’ it seems that their are known issues with some FireFox plugins, so that FF is not displaying Flash correctly.

Could you please double check this?

Furthermore you could ask http://www.flickr.com/help/test (Magic Donkey) if your installation works in principle.

And again for final testing it might be useful to test your side with https://browsershots.org/ as this enables you to test with vanilla version of browsers not having any fancy plugins installed.

Cheers
jmu

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Jeannot Muller on July 9, 2008 at 7:19 pm

@Joy,
everything should work now - enjoy.
Regards
jmu

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Jeannot Muller on July 11, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Just tested it on windows PC with Firefox. No probs so far.

Cheers
jmu

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Joy on July 11, 2008 at 4:07 pm

thanks jmu! i haven’t really had the time to update it. i’m currently using your stand alone version of the flick-slideshow-wrapper and tags. it’s working fantastic-ally.

oh, and no worries about the button, glad you found it amusing. i couldn’t help but smile when i made it too

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Ben on July 11, 2008 at 4:30 pm

Thanks for your reply jmu.

Looks like was a little hasty in reporting that problem. It only seems to be happening on one network with Firefox 2. Tried it on three computers there and all have the same trouble, I will look into what plugins they are running.

I have updated the preg_replace functions in the code to use square brackets instead of arrows. This is because square brackets can be entered in either the visual or HTML view, whereas arrows have to be typed in HTML view. Also, to make it a bit simpler no quotes are required.

[set_id=72157606099554039]

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Ben on July 13, 2008 at 3:48 pm

I’ve tried Drupal and Joomla many times but both have their problems that I wouldn’t use them on a live site yet. For many straight forward sites WordPress is the best CMS to use and is very powerful for a PHP developer. If you have WordPress set up with multi blog (http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/virtual-multiblog/) you can create new sites off a single install very quicly.

EE is meant to be good but the commercial pricing has always put me off giving it a try. It is $550, then $40 per year and $50 per additional site. For a team running a single site or network of sites it could be great, but for someone making lots of sites all the multiple payments look like a hassle.

On a related note I have used the PHP development framework Code Igniter, also by Ellis Labs, and the documentation is quite good but it doesn’t have the great admin area Django has.

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Jeannot Muller on July 14, 2008 at 12:29 am

Ben,

sounds like a very reasonable change you made. I incorporate this now in release 4.5.0. But at this stage only for the set_id tag. So as you describe you can now use both:

OR
[set_id=72157606099554039]

The latter having the big advantages you mentioned. If their is the need for the other tags to be changed, I canincorporate this as well, depending on any feedback I’ll get.

I know that some users are not familiar with programming and I want to keep in mind compatibility for those, who are just upgrading without reading release notes.

Cheers
Jeannot

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Jeannot Muller on July 14, 2008 at 12:50 am

Ben,

valid comment and may be even reasonable someone brings a little additional objectivity too my original post ;-).

Wordpress is definitely not bad and for a lot of users just right, as for expression engine’s pricing you’re right if talking about multi-instance implementations. Price is half for standard single implementations. Still, it costs money, but in comparison to software like vbulletin.com I always felt the prices to be competitive, the return of value better and the same for the service they offer.

Do you have any workaround for tuning Wordpress? This is what made me suffer most. All my wordpress implementations used to slow down quite quickly after a certain amount of posting.

By the way, next release of EE will be based on CodeIgniter. Some promising pre-views can be found on expressionengine.com.

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