Change Thumbnail Size

Is it possible to make the albums bigger on the page, to look more like they do on Flickr’s website?

The largest square thumbnail that Flickr provides as a standard size is 150px. Anything else that is provided is not square in shape. Flickr does not give you an ability to automatically crop photos either. Even on its own website, for album thumbnails they artificially crop the images – this technique often has unintended consequences, as it tends to sometimes remove objects of focus from the photos.

So, long story short – if you are using square thumbnails, the maximum size you can use is 150px, not more.

Thanks for getting back to me. I’m just a little confused, because if you look at our wb page here: https://thenotforgotten.org/how-we-help/flickr-photos/

The thumbnails look a lot smaller than on Flickr here: https://flickr.com/photos/191784994@N06/albums

Could you clarify why there’s a difference and if there’s something I can change in the Photonic settings (or through code) to make them look more similar?

On this page your thumbnails are 150px square thumbnails, as per Flickr’s API definition. For sure, you can use a larger size, but the image is not going to be square.

On this page, the underlying images are larger, but Flickr is forcefully setting the displayed size to something like 279px. This results in cropping of sections that you might not want cropped. E.g. look at the album, “Respite Break in France 2019”, where the actual image that Flickr is using is https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51002320265_ffdb70e29a_z.jpg, but due to the arbitrary trimming of the image, the head of the person is getting cropped in the albums page.

Photonic only pulls the actual, available sizes without modifying the aspect ratio and without applying any crop by itself – 279px is not a standard size published by Flickr; it is just something that they are currently using for their album pages (this changes from time to time). Hence the difference in the layouts.

Ok, thanks! Sorry for the bombardment of questions. I’m working for a charity and this plugin is very new to us – but great! Final thing – is it possible to remove the number of photos from the title?

is it possible to remove the number of photos from the title?

Sure: Photonic → Settings → Flickr → Photoset / Album Thumbnails (with other Photosets / Albums) → Hide Photo Count in Title Display

Thanks, Sayontan! I just tried that and it isn’t working, sadly!

That looks like a bug in the code. I will release a fix this evening.

This should be working now – I released version 2.73 last evening.