Title: Simple Flickr Photostream
Author: Bensventures
Published: <strong>March 29, 2010</strong>
Last modified: March 27, 2015

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# Simple Flickr Photostream

 By [Bensventures](https://profiles.wordpress.org/validben/)

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## Description

Simple Flickr Photostream widget is another Flickr photo display. I exists because
no other plugins were doing what the author needed.

The plugin is essentially a widget that will show pictures from a chosen Flickr 
source, be it your own photostream, someone else’s, one of your sets, a group, your
favorite, etc…

The code is based on [FlickrRss](http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/) plugin
made by Dave Kellam and Stefano Verna and improves by placing the controls in the
widget itself rather than an admin page. This new approach, combined with the way
WP 2.7 handles widgets makes it multiwidgets enabled with different options for 
each widgets.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

If you are upgrading from previous version, do not forget to backup!

 1. Upload `simple-flickr-photostream-widget.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go the widget page and drag the “Simple Flickr Photostream” widget in your sidebar
    area.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Flickr Photostream” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Bensventures ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/validben/)

[Translate “Simple Flickr Photostream” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-flickr-photostream-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-flickr-photostream-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-flickr-photostream-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-flickr-photostream-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-flickr-photostream-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.7

 * Fixed missing “T” in the curl timeout option added in 1.3.6. Thanks Chris.

#### 1.3.6

 * Added author_url and author_name tags for widget template
 * Added curl timeout when retreiving the data to not lock the page if Flickr is
   down.
 * Added “default template” button to go back to the default template if you’ve 
   messed things up.

#### 1.3.5

 * Fixing bug introduced in 1.3.4 where the widget would always display 1 random
   picture. Noob error sorry…

#### 1.3.4

 * Added possibility to have 1 random picture out the 20 returned by flickr. In 
   the dropdown for the number of pictures select “Random (1)”. You will probably
   also want to disable caching with this option.

#### 1.3.3

 * Implementation change: now using cURL instead of deprecated magpie RSS parser.
   Falling back to file_get_contents if no cURL found.
 * Bug fix: cache problem that was showing always the same pics.

#### 1.3.2

 * Bug Fix: when multiple sizes where used in the template, only the first occurrence
   was taken into account

#### 1.3.1

 * wrong cache duration, set to 1 hour now

#### 1.3

 * Improved caching system. The cached pictures should be deleted automatically 
   when the cache expires. You will need to manually clean up the old cache files
   if you are upgrading from previous version and where using the cahcing system.
   Backup before upgrade!
 * minified javascript in admin head
 * code change to make it a bit more OOP

#### 1.1

 * Fix a bug in source dropdown. When a user was selecting a source for the first
   time, before saving the widget, some input fields where not hiding correctly.

#### 1.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.7**
 *  Last updated: **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations: **90+**
 *  WordPress Version: ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to: **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-flickr-photostream-widget/)
 * Tags:
 * [flickr](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/flickr/)[flickr widget](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/flickr-widget/)
   [photostream](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/photostream/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-flickr-photostream-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Bensventures ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/validben/)

## Support

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