flickpress 1.9.1

Posted on 7/22/2010 by isaac

This release adds one big feature, refines a few things introduced in the last release, and fixes some bugs.

First the bugs: A discussion about WP_DEBUG on the wp-hackers list inspired me to turn it on track down the avalanche of warnings, notices, and errors that flickpress was causing. Actually, it wasn’t that bad and fixing the issues didn’t take long. The major change was in the widget code – I was still using pre-2.8 widget functions. So, if you’re using the widget you may will need to check re-enter your settings. I also found and fixed a few breadcrumb problems in the popup tool.

Refinements: Thanks to some feedback from Gustav, I changed the before/between/after caption text fields to allow HTML. This can be used for a variety of things, such as breaking the caption into two lines or wrapping the caption with a tag to use custom style. The last version added simple ThickBox lightbox support, but in case you wish to use another lightbox method I added a custom lightbox option that works with plugins like LightBox Plus.

New feature: On the settings page you can now specify default licenses for photo searches. This will save you a few clicks if you always search for photos licensed the same way.

Get flickpress 1.9.1 at the WordPress Plugin Directory or by upgrading as usual in your WordPress admin panel.

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oEmbed FlickrLinkr 0.4

Posted on 7/18/2010 by isaac

This update adds a bunch of options to customize the appearance of embedded Flickr images and their captions. Here’s what you can do now:

  • Specify classes for the container div and image to control their layout/appearance.
  • Change the order of the title and author in the caption, or omit the author from the caption.
  • Specify text (including HTML) to insert before, between, and after the caption elements.

Get oEmbed FlickrLinkr 0.4 at the WordPress Plugins Directory.

Here’s an example with aligncenter on the div and some HTML in the text at the start of the caption (might change if I change the settings later – that’s how oEmbeds work):

Leafy

Flickr photo:
Leafy by izik

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flickpress 1.9

Posted on 7/8/2010 by isaac

This update adds some caption options, ThickBox support, moves the widget into the main plugin, and updates the phpFlickr library to 3.0. The new caption options let you switch the order of title and author, and put arbitrary text before, between, and after the caption parts. I moved the widget into the main plugin, so you may need to make sure it’s still in your sidebar. If you enable ThickBox support in the options then clicking an inserted Flickr image will display the largest image size available (up to Large) in a ThickBox window.

The plugin should work with the latest version of WordPress, currently 3.0.

Get flickpress 1.9 at the WordPress Plugin Directory or by upgrading as usual in your WordPress admin.

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oEmbed FlickrLinkr 0.2

Posted on 3/24/2010 by isaac

oEmbeds make it ridiculously easy to embed content from other sites in blog posts. Unfortunately, Flickr oEmbeds are not linked to Flickr by default, which seems silly and probably violates Flickr’s Community Guidelines. This plugin enhances your Flickr oEmbeds by linking to the photo page at Flickr and optionally adding a caption with the title and author.

Get oEmbed FlickrLinkr 0.2 at the WordPress Plugins Directory.

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Photopress2 0.4

Posted on 3/23/2010 by isaac

I added another field to the tags table for a “display tag” – a version of the tag that can contain spaces and whatnot. Using these it’s possible to get the new tags page looking more or less like the main album page in old Photopress. You’ll need to deactivate and reactivate to get the database table upgraded.

The other big deal is a template function to list tags for an image attachment. The function accepts 2 arguments: what to put before the tags and what to place between them. It doesn’t output anything if the image is not tagged. Here’s an example with “Image tags: ” before the list and a space between each tag.

<?php if (function_exists('photopress2_image_tags')) photopress2_image_tags('Image tags: ', ' '); ?>

This version also fixes a few bugs, such as the totally wrong tagged image count.

Get Photopress2: pp2.0.4.zip

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flickpress 1.8

Posted on 3/22/2010 by isaac

I got a report of a conflict with a plugin called Scribe, so I’m hoping this version fixes the issue – if you use Scribe please let me know. At some point I’ll rewrite flickpress to be more immune to these conflicts, but in the meantime the changes I made should help.

In addition, this version fixes a small bug in the popup’s menu and uses a built-in WordPress function to make better (I think) page navigation links.

Report bugs early and often!

Get flickpress 1.8 at the WordPress Plugin Directory or by upgrading as usual in your WordPress admin.

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Photopress 1.8.1

Posted on 3/16/2010 by isaac

I finally figured out why some of the migrated images get assigned strange “autosave” post parents – the query I was using to get the parent post wasn’t checking for a “publish” post status. This version should fix this issue.

Get Photopress 1.8.1: photopress.1.8.1.zip

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Photopress2 0.3

Posted on 3/15/2010 by isaac

Cosmetic changes: I made the album a little prettier. The page menu now has nicer style. There are image counts all over the place. I also added ThickBox support for images that don’t have attachment pages, which can be enabled or disabled at Settings:Photopress2.

New feature: I added a tag editor at Tools:Image Tags, where you can modify and delete image tags.

Download Photopress2 0.3: pp2.0.3.zip

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oEmbed Photolinkor 0.1

Posted on 3/5/2010 by isaac

oEmbed in WordPress is pretty great – it makes embedding things in posts a lot easier. The way it handles Flickr photos annoys me though – shouldn’t they be linked back to the Flickr photo page as Flickr asks in their community guidelines? This really simple plugin just links to oEmbedded photos using the provided URL.

This plugin only seems useful if you embed Flickr photos. For Photobucket photos it doesn’t do anything special because Photobucket oEmbeds aren’t handled properly in the first place – oEmbed only handles direct links to Photobucket photos, not links to photo pages. So you’ll just get a link to the image you already embedded. I have no idea why they’re wasting the opportunity to get links back to their site…and all those ads.

Get oEmbed Photolinkor 0.1: oembed-photolinkor.0.1.zip

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flickpress 1.7.1

Posted on 3/4/2010 by isaac

When I tried to post a photo earlier today over at my little photo blog flickpress gave me a notice saying my API key was no good. I think Flickr does expire keys from time to time, so I checked my key. It looked correct so I did some further testing. I finally figured out that the Flickr API no longer includes the flickr.test.echo method, which flickpress was using to test API keys. It seems silly to me, but the easiest way to test now appears to be to just fetch a recent photo – so that’s what flickpress does now.

This version also fixes some cosmetic issues in the popup tool. It should be fully compatible with WordPress 3.0, but I’ll wait until the actual release to claim it really works. I’ve done a little testing with WP 3.0 in MU-mode and flickpress seems to work, but others have reported it doesn’t work.

Get flickpress 1.7.1 at the WordPress Plugin Directory or by upgrading as usual.

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