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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Baron on July 14, 2008 at 1:47 am

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards

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Ben on July 14, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Interesting to hear they’ll be using CI in the next EE release. That should make it very streamlined when adding your own extensions.

“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.”

From my experience WP performance has been fine (on 4-5 different server setups). WP uses the database a fair bit and this is often a weak point on some servers. I always start my theme from scratch so it only contains what is required. One installation has over 5000 posts and has no sign of slowdown. eBay, CNN and New York Times also use WordPress, so it can work on heavy load sites. I’ve not found the need to implement any caching but there are some options available to replicate static page creation.

Thinking again about Code Igniter.. if only it attempted to automate more of the tedious parts of coding. They also have not upgraded it for a while, but hopefully if they are using it for EE after this they will add more advanced features.

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Jeannot Muller on July 14, 2008 at 10:46 pm

Hi Ben,
well interesting to hear, may be I have to further dive into my installed plugins on Wordpress, guess bad programming of some of my favorites could be one reasons for my issues.

May be following links are interesting to you in regards of expression engine and code igniter:

ExpressionEngine 2.0: fully CodeIgnited!
ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Preview
Preparing for ExpressionEngine 2.0

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Ãlvaro Degives-Mas on August 3, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Hi Jeannot, thanks so much for applying Ben’s suggestion! There’s another, for me much more important advantage of using the square bracket or simplified tags method: due to WP’s finicky (to use charitable term) editor, any tags that don’t look like standard, basic HTML tend to be wiped out. E.g. any occurrence of iframe and your custom setid codes will be eliminated if you’re not careful preselecting the “pure” HTML editing mode. It’s happened a few times to me that I went in to correct a silly typo, only to find (much) later that I also inadvertently killed the Flickr slideshow… Using the square brackets, your slideshow is and will be safe always, no matter the editing mode chosen or switched to. So, it’s a precautionary / user input safety issue as well. Anyway: thanks again for your great plugin!

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Jeannot Muller on August 3, 2008 at 6:43 pm

Ãlvaro,
pleasure, I’m glad to hear that my plugin is helpful to you. Agree with all your points. The “issue” was obviously that I moved mainly from wordpress to expressionengine.com (for different reasons) and had basically not to suffer too much from my own programming ;-).
From a programming perspective the new wordpress release does offer more sophisticated hooks to embed square bracket based code, but at the moment I do not have the time to update the code. Anyhow, it does work the way it’s implemented and their are no performance issues, but still from a pure coding perspective there is still room for improvement. I’ll see if I’ll find time in near future to make new adaptions. Again thanks for your kind words!
Regards
Jeannot

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Ãlvaro Degives-Mas on September 4, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Hi Jeannot, I’m still in love with FSSW! Do you think it’s possible to also incorporate Slideflickr quicktags (shortcode), so that one can post, say: [slidef="abcdefg"] instead of the angled brackets? Reason being, that I’ve just tried to post someone else’s slideshow, and of course that doesn’t work straightaway - but with the built-in support of Slideflickr.com that’s a perfect solution. With that shortcode addition, it’d be much easier to post a slideshow! Thanks again (and sorry for bugging with another request… The shortcode that you’ve already put into FSSW is a real time saver!)

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Ãlvaro Degives-Mas on September 5, 2008 at 5:06 pm

I’ve decided to go ahead and apply exactly the same modification to the plugin code as you made in the preg_replace parse/replace routine for the [setid] bit and… it works! So, now I can use [slidef=abcdefg] but without quotes, to keep the analogy intact with the other shortcode implementation. Wonderful!

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Jeannot Muller on September 7, 2008 at 11:05 pm

Ãlvaro,
for your convenience I just added your changes to the new release 4.6.0. I hope this will now work fine for you.
Many thanks for having participated to optimize my plug-in.

Regards
Jeannot

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Henryk on September 8, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Hi,

after updating i get a failure:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_replacece() in /home/www/web147/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/flickr-slideshow-wrapper/flickr-slideshow-wrapper.php on line 120

There must be something wrong
Thanks for a fix or so
Greetz
Henryk

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Jeannot Muller on September 8, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Opps,
software … :-(.

The error is obvious: preg_replacece() has to be replaced by preg_replace() …

Wondering why I didn’t get any errors in my test environment?!?

I kindly ask everyone to make this small change by its own. I’ll release bugfixing in version 4.6.1 later tonight (in approx. 9-10 hours). Alternatively (if no clue how to edit .php files, please use last stable version).

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Jeannot

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