Unable to View Flickr Albums

Hi Graeme, have you checked the following URL? Have you also updated the plugin to version 1.50?

Hi Graeme, is your issue resolved?

I had the same question. The link you referred to above does not mention Albums. I tried using my album id in the following code for photosets, but nothing is displayed on the page: [gallery type='flickr' photoset_id='xyz]

Can this plugin be used to display albums, and it will retain the custom sort order that I have arranged using Flickr Organizr?

Thanks.

@streetcore,
As far as I know, what an album is on Flickr’s front-end is really a photoset in the back-end (it used to be called photoset at both places).

In your case, you are missing a closing quote for your photoset_id. If you provide me with the actual album id that you are trying to pull, and / or the website where you have the shortcode, I can help you troubleshoot.

Thanks for the quick response. The missing closing quote in my message above was a typo. Here’s the actual code with the album id: [gallery type='flickr' photoset_id='72157662300527274']

Here’s the test page it should be displaying on: https://www.arossphoto.com/wordpress/comm-interiors-photonic-flickr/

I don’t know what happened, but the gallery just appeared. I was playing around with the header options in the theme and suddenly the gallery was there. I don’t if it was a coincidence, or if there was some conflict the theme, but I will play around some more to see what happens.

Something else that’s strange is the section at the top of the gallery that links to flickr and shows the total image count (see screen grab below) comes and goes depending on the header settings. Is there a way to hide that permanently?

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Thanks again

I just found the “Hide Photo Count in Title Display” in “Flickr Photoset Thumbnails (with other Photosets)” settings. Thanks again for responding so quickly. I’m not sure why it didn’t work earlier, but it seems to be okay now.

I’ll take some more time to play with the different settings, but it looks pretty good so far. I’m glad to see it maintains the custom sort order from Flickr.

Sorry for all the posts, but I’ve tried the page in Firefox and Chrome and refreshed a few times to check load times. The page seems to load differently once in awhile, sometimes without the Photo Count in the title and sometimes with it. Did I use the right setting to hide it?

Sometimes it takes a little awhile for the thumbnails to load as well and there is no “loading” icon or anything to indicate that something is happening. If it takes more than a few seconds to load I’d be afraid that visitors would assume the page is blank and move on. I’m comparing this plug-in to Flickr Album Gallery and it does have graphic to indicate thumbs are loading.

Not sure why you are occasionally seeing the count, however you can put in something in your child theme’s CSS to permanently block it:

.photonic-flickr-set { display: none; }

The “Random tiled layout” will take a bit of time to load, because it tries to download full-sized images. The “Square” layout will render a lot quicker. One thing you might want to try is to use a midway size for the random layout tiles (Photonic → Settings → Flickr → Flickr settings → Tile image size). That will make it faster.

I was considering putting in a “loading” icon for the random layout – I can look into it for the next release.

I just refreshed the page a couple times and the album didn’t load at all. Just the count ??

I’ll try some different layouts and tile sizes, and see if it works better. I hope so, because I liked the way it looked with the “Random tiled layout”.