Comments on: WordPress SmoothGallery Plugin

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:59:05 +0000

Hi Sylwia,
unfortunately, I don’t know very much about all the details of Flickr. That said, I can’t tell how to grab the large image. My best idea would be to create the SmoothGallery by hand, i.e. insert the markup that you can normally find in the SmoothGallery box on the post/page edit screen and change the URLs to the images to the large images on Flickr. As a last resort you might import the images in question into WordPress, attach them to the post/page you’d like to show the gallery on and simply use the shortcode that comes with the plugin; don’t forget to set the dimensions of the gallery accordingly.

By: Sylwia

Sylwia — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:49:05 +0000

Hi, thanks for the plugin.

I’d like to use it to show Flickr images, but I can’t find out how to make them large. I mean really large like 1000px wide.

Thanks for your help!

By: Mauricio Roa

Mauricio Roa — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Hi Christian:

I have updated the plugin some days ago and now I have this problem:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_picasa_images() in /home/granig5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/smoothgallery/utils.php on line 420

Do you have some idea about the solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Regards & Happy New Year,

Mauricio.

By: Tom Ranson

Tom Ranson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:53:04 +0000

Thanks a lot Christian, I’ll be giving this a go.

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:42:55 +0000

Hi Tom, this is how you do this:

upload the first set of photos to a page
upload the second set of photos to another page; this may be just a placeholder, you don't necessarily have to publish it.
insert the shortcode on, e.g., the first page, use the attribute iframe=1 and adjust the gallery to suit your needs.
insert the shortcode once again, use the attribute iframe=1 again and add the ID of the second page to the shortcode, e.g. if the page ID is 42 you'd add id=42 to the shortcode.

This way you've got two independent galleries. Adding images to the galleries is as easy as uploading them to one of the two pages you created.

By: Tom Ranson

Tom Ranson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:33:05 +0000

After reading all this I am still not sure how to display several galleries on the same page. I have two sets of photos that I want to display in two separate galleries on the same page. Putting in the shortcode for a second time doesn’t display a second gallery and further photos added just go into the original gallery. Can you help?

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:15:27 +0000

Hi Mauricio,
I added your information above into the Picasa section – thanks for the research.

By: Mauricio Roa

Mauricio Roa — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:06:29 +0000

Christian: After looking some examples of Shashin plugin, I found the parameter in Picasa that permits resize the image on the fly, called imgmax. So, the problem is solved. Maybe you can update your documentation on the picasaweb section and tell this little tip to other PicasaWeb and SmoothGallery users. This parameter will resize the image coming from Picasaweb album to fit on the frame of SmootGallery. An example follows:

[smoothgallery iframe=0 width=640 height=480 embedLinks=false
 timed=true delay=6000 bordercolor=fff imgsize=640x480
 picasaurl=https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/puntaitata/albumid/5271971015774168305?imgmax=640]

Great work, Christian!

By: Mauricio Roa

Mauricio Roa — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:05:16 +0000

Hi Christian:

Thanks for your work! I have read several users asking for a resize capability. Even if wordpress have one, I’m using Picasa web albums with some large pics, and need this feature, as I cannot resize all the fotos on Picasa and, correct me if I wrong, Picasa only has one thumbnail size that the plugin is ignoring. I think if you add that, your plugin will rocks on the Picasa/Wordpress users!

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