I missed providing the change log for the last couple of Photonic releases, but both were fairly minor and dealt mostly with stabilization. Anyway, for the sake of completeness, here goes: 2.44 I removed the capability to show “more buttons” on archive views. This was a feature that was rarely used, if ever, but took […]

I have released version 2.43 of Photonic. This is a stability patch addressing the following issues after last week’s big 2.40 upgrade: Trying to create a new post on PHP 5.6.x was causing a fatal error. This should be fine now. There was a corner case conflict between the use of the standard WP hook, […]

I released a patch for Photonic via version 2.42. This has primarily the following bug fixes: On the gallery wizard, if you clicked “Load More” for a SmugMug gallery, that was not working. The Beaver Builder integration was partially broken. Galleries for Google Photos were not showing up on the dedicated gallery page. Just calling […]

Version 2.40 of Photonic is now out. This has been the biggest rewrite of Photonic since its beginning, though the changes are mostly under the hood here unlike version 2.00 that focused on adding the Gallery Wizard. So, let’s get the details out of the way Fully OO In coding parlance OO stands for Object […]

In version 2.33 of Photonic (released a few hours back) I had to patch a few problems in version 2.32: There were two lines of code that wouldn’t work for versions of PHP < 7.0 - I have corrected them to work for PHP 5.6 If you are using an alternative shortcode for Photonic, there […]

Version 2.32 of Photonic is now out. I posted a few days back about the likely disruption of Instagram galleries. This is now officially a reality. Due to COVID-19 Facebook has had to suspend their Individual Verification process. So, while they have established that Photonic is good to go, they are not yet sure about […]

In a weird case of procrastination I forgot to post the release notes for version 2.28 of Photonic, which has now been live for over 2 weeks! These are the changes for this version: Instagram made a change to its API scopes and that was causing an error when Photonic was trying to authenticate or […]

I have just released version 2.27 of Photonic. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons this took longer to release than my previous versions, and this is mainly down to a combination of personal and professional factors taking priority. This is mainly an optimization-specific release with the following changes: Removed dependency on jQuery Migrate: Whenever any […]

Over the past one week Flickr made some undocumented changes to its uploads, so that when a user uploads photos, a few things were changing: Some URL formats stopped being supported. In particular if users were relying on the official documentation, they were likely to be facing some issues. New videos started getting their URLs […]

In version 2.24 of Photonic I had introduced a change to the behaviour for handling the filter attribute for Google Photos. The change I had made would internally make calls to Google so that all listed albums would get fetched. I have generally been against such automated calls, as they tend to hit API rate […]