Plugin / Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug, Google Photos & Others

Sayontan Sinha
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Obviously, your galleries will not show. If you are using Gutenberg you don’t have to worry about anything. If you are not using Gutenberg and you are using the native gallery shortcode, you will not see any empty shortcode tags on your site. But if you are not using Gutenberg and you are using a custom shortcode that shortcode tag will now show up.
Yes, the plugin is working. Unfortunately the integration of Photonic with the visual editor is complex, and there is a likelihood of conflicts with other TinyMCE-specific plugins. If you come across such a conflict, please report it on the support forum. In the meanwhile you can disable the visual editing capability of Photonic (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Disable shortcode editing in Visual Editor) and you should still be able to edit the gallery shortcode directly through the text editor.
Yes, the plugin is working. The issue you are facing is that you have another plugin (typically some sort of a lightbox plugin) that is modifying the markup generated by Photonic. Of course, it would be easiest if you were to disable that plugin. If a lightbox is all you need, Photonic’s lightbox can be used to display regular photos as well, from your admin dashboard under Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Photonic Lightbox for non-Photonic Images. This will ensure consistency across Photonic and non-Photonic images. However, if you really wanted to keep that plugin, Photonic offers a way out there too! For each provider (e.g. Flickr, Google Photos etc.) go to the Settings page, e.g. Photonic → Settings → SmugMug → SmugMug Settings → Disable lightbox linking and set that option.
Yes, the plugin is working. Here is what happened: version 1.57 of Photonic moved from API v1.3 of SmugMug to API v2. Your API keys probably were created for v1.3 and need to be authorized for v2. See here for instructions.
Not with effect from January 2019, when Google terminated the Picasa API. It does support Google Photos though. See the documentation pages for instructions.
The plugin has code to support 500px.com, however 500px.com has shut down its API access with effect from mid June 2018, so you will not be able to obtain an API key for it, and if you have an API key already, it will have stopped working.
Suggestions are welcome for other photo-sharing platforms.
Currently Colorbox, Fancybox, Fancybox3, Featherlight, Image Lightbox, Lightcase, Lightgallery, PrettyPhoto and Swipebox are supported. Inbuilt support is also present for the non-GPL Fancybox2 and Strip. Both lighter and heavier alternatives are being considered. If you have specific suggestions please feel free to contact the plugin author. Note that there have been slight modifications to some of the above scripts to make them interact seamlessly with JQuery tooltips.
As explained in the “Description”, the Instagram API has been coded to support hashtags and locations, but Instagram itself has not provided Photonic access to those features. Also, the TinyMCE integration for the plugin is complex, predominantly since Photonic doesn’t rely on a separate shortcode. This can cause potential conflicts with other plugins. If such a situation arises, please report it in the Support Forum, and disable the visual editor capability for the shortcode by specific post-types (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Disable Visual Editing for specific post types). If that doesn’t work, you can go thermonuclear on Photonic’s visual editing (Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Disable shortcode editing in Visual Editor) – you will still be able to edit the shortcode using the Text Editor in WordPress. The “Mosaic” layout may sometimes show 1px wide gaps betweeen images if you set the padding between images to 0. This happens due to rounding errors in the height and width calculations. To avoid this, it is recommended that you use a padding > 0 between images for this layout. Apart from these, while the plugin can handle pretty much whatever you throw at it, Lubarsky’s Law of Cybernetic Entomology states: There is always one more bug. Bug reports are welcome, and handled enthusiastically.
Yes, but only for the plugin front-end and the interactive workflow. The admin panel is not translated at this point. Also note that any strings included in the third-party JS scripts are not translated.

Ratings

4.7
113 reviews

Rating breakdown

Details Information

Version

2.31

First Released

13 Sep, 2016

Total Downloads

309,984

Wordpress Version

4.9 or higher

Tested up to:

5.2.4

Require PHP Version:

5.6 or higher

Tags

flickr Google Photos Instagram SmugMug Zenfolio

Contributors

Sayontan

Languages

English (US) Spanish (Spain)

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