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Flickr Manager I18N

Trent Gardner — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:35:48 +0000

To bring in the new year, I bring you Flickr Manager 2.1. The updated version contains a number of bug fixes, interface revamps, but the main new feature is the support for internationalization.

EDIT:

A Launchpad translation project has been setup: Click here to view a list of all currently available translations. Very briefly, Launchpad will enable a community of translators to help translate the plugin into whatever language is needed.

How to translate with Launchpad

Setup a Launchpad.net account.
Select your preferred languages. This will be the language you want to translate.
You should see your language show up in this list. Simply click the name to get started with the translations. The system will try to offer suggests where available (retrieved from other open source projects).
Your translations are saved as you proceed. When it comes time to package a release, your translation will be automatically included in the release for everyone to use. Thanks for your help!

Flickr Manager gets photo sets in 1.5.0

Trent Gardner — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:26:45 +0000

In this final release of 1.5.0 I’ve added photo set support that allows you to browse your personal photo sets as well as take advantage of the Lightbox photo set functionality when inserting photos into posts. An example:

Wordcamp Melbourne 2007

Also PHP 5 is now required to use this plugin otherwise you’ll receive the following error:
ERROR: You’re currently running 4.x.x and you must have at least PHP 5 in order to use Flickr Manager!

If you don’t have PHP 5 and have no way of installing it I believe version 1.4.5 will still function in some of the later releases of PHP 4.

The new Browse Panel

Flickr Manager gets a new Framework

Trent Gardner — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:40:00 +0000

So some of you may have noticed already that yesterday I released version 1.5.0a of my Flickr Manager plugin. The main point of this version update was because of all the development that’s been going on lately, the code has been getting rather thrown together and confusing, so I’ve restructured and rewritten most of the code to make it easier to understand and develop future releases. Because of such a major overhaul a few bugs may have slipped through so this is the reason for releasing it as an alpha. So please if you try the new release of the plugin and are experiencing problems let me know with as many details as possible. Otherwise if you’re not game enough to try out the new version please revert back to 1.4.5 (available here).

I’ve also added a “Limit size of images in the browse window” option, which keeps all the images in the browse panel to maintain a constant size of either square or thumbnail depending on your preference to save loading times.

WFM 1.4.5 – Lightbox 2 Support

Trent Gardner — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:07:44 +0000

WordPress Flickr Manager’s latest release now supports Lightbox 2. I’ve also added new “Optional Settings” such as “Enable lightbox support by default” and “Default lightbox picture”, which lets you specify a default size of the image being displayed by Lightbox.

The ‘Browse Photos’ panel has had a bit of a face lift, it now allows for more solid control over inserted Lightbox elements such as specifying the Flickr image size to be displayed in Lightbox from picture to picture.

If you’ve got a suggestion that you’d like to see in a future version of Flickr Manager, let me know.

WordPress Plugin Updater Beta Test!

Trent Gardner — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:26:20 +0000

Today I have a little surprise for all of you, I’ve written a new plugin which I find extremely useful, I’ve dubbed it “Plugin Updater”. Not the most imaginative name, I know. Once it’s installed it adds a new button to the plugin update notification bar, shown in the image to the right.

When you click the “Update Now” button it will automatically download the update from WordPress extend and extract it to your plugins directory.

Installation instructions:

Upload the folder `plugin-updater` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
CHMOD 777 /wp-content/plugins
CHMOD 777 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-updater/packages
Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress.

This isn’t an official release, I’ve still got a lot of testing to do so I’m not offering any support.

If you find any bugs it would be greatly appreciated if you let me know.

NOTE: There’s a known conflict issue with my “Flickr Manager” plugin, which I’ve since had to patch, so if you’re experiencing troubles with it not doing anything when you click the “Update Now” button, please redownload Flickr Manager (or deactivate and click “Update Now” for versions earlier than 1.4.01).

WordPress Flickr Manager now with Lightbox Support

Trent Gardner — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:20:30 +0000

It’s a bit of a rushed release because I’m pretty busy at the moment, so I didn’t have time to test it as much as I would have liked. I introduced a couple new features to Flickr Manager in this release, the main one being optional Lightbox support. You’ll notice now on the “Browse Photos” tab an added “Insert with lightbox support” check box. When this is selected, the inserted image will display the Medium Flickr sized copy of the photo in the Lightbox window. This means if you insert a square, thumbnail or small image it will display a larger version when viewing the Lightbox image. It also allows you to specify which images load with Lightbox and which don’t. For Example:

CLICK ME! I do stuff.

I’m boring and just take you to Flickr

Also another feature I added was if you don’t have cURL installed on your web host it will now use fopen instead.
NOTE: File uploads to Flickr won’t work unless you have cURL installed. So if everything is working except uploads, you must install cURL!

Like I said earlier, I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to test this so I’m releasing it as a beta. If you find any errors, please let me know. Thanks.

WordPress Flickr Manager v1.2.1

Trent Gardner — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:47:56 +0000

Well I just got back from my Christmas break and started to follow up the feedback I received while I was away. This led to several bug fixes and a few changes, one of which being you now simply click on the photo and it will be inserted into tinyMCE rather than drag and drop. Although drag-drop will still function, if you want the image to be wrapped in it’s associated link as stated in the Flickr Community Guidelines just click on the image once you’ve selected your size.

A few bugs have been resolved such as when trying to upload or browse photos with a low privileged account returned “Unauthorized Access“. A problem with the Flickr panel not maintaining the current page after changing the image size has also been fixed. If you find any other bugs please let me know.

As usual the updated version can be found at the WordPress extend page.

WordPress Flickr Manager v1.2.0

Trent Gardner — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:12:22 +0000

Well I’ve spent a good portion of my day bug fixing and managed to stumble upon some fairly huge ones. One in particular wouldn’t let you save or publish posts and pages. Little did I realize WordPress use a hidden field called ‘action’ which was being broken by a hidden field in the Flickr Manager panel called ‘action’. Another bug I found was that the AJAX script I wrote wasn’t functioning properly under IE because it seems to parse links differently when compared to Firefox.

So anyway I’ve issued a new version ’1.2.0′ release of my WordPress Flickr Manager on the WordPress extend page. If you’re experiencing issues with the plugin please upgrade to the latest version. If you’ve noticed anything buggy about the new version I’d really appreciate it if you let me know.

Please download the updated version of the plugin available here.

Flickr Manager now on WordPress extend

Trent Gardner — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:37:25 +0000

After about three weeks of waiting my Flickr Manager Subversion repository finally got approved over on the WordPress.org extend page. I’ll be using that to release the latest versions of my plugin, and because it’s only relatively new I’m in a frantic effort to iron out as many bugs as possible, so please email me or leave a comment with as many specific details as possible of any finds. Also if you have any great ideas or improvement suggestions just let me know, I’m always looking for ways to improve it.

Since its release on WordPress.org I had to make a minor release change to account for the change in directory name on my repository. WordPress Flickr Manager v1.1.1 contains a few bug fixes and a plugin directory name change and is available here.

Edit: I just released 1.1.2, in which I converted all AJAX requests to use the prototype library.

WordPress Flickr Manager plugin v1.1

Trent Gardner — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:08:19 +0000

At long last! If you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for the release of WordPress Flickr Manager 1.1, your week long journey is finally at an end. With this latest arrival, I added a few bells and whistles which have made my ‘Flickring’ and blogging all the easier, such as the new ‘Flickr Manager’ panel that appears now just below the tinyMCE editor in your administration panel. This new addition is feature packed, it allows for drag-drop image insertion into your posts, as well as a new and improved upload form.

The browse panel allows for filtering of images through the use of a tag search, as well as the selection of the various image sizes that Flickr have to offer (remember you can still customize the size of the image from within tinyMCE). The time where you would have to leave your post, go to Flickr and copy the code for your image is at an end. Now it’s as simple as drag and drop. This brings me to the next tab on the panel, the shiny new upload form.

From here I can upload new images, including various meta details such as the title, tags, and the description. It’s now all strapped together with AJAX style functionality so you’ll never have to leave your post for anything.

The files are available in zip and tar.gz.