I have released version 2.24 of Photonic. This is a minor release with some mid-size changes: Improved Google Photos behaviour Google has the worst-in-class limits on how many photos and albums you can retrieve in one shot, and Photonic has a policy of not making calls to get the remainder of the photos in an […]

A common malaise I have seen with multiple themes (particularly those obtained from beyond https://wordpress.org/themes, such as Divi, Avada and a bunch of ThemeForest themes) is the inclusion of buggy scripts from other sources. Such scripts often cause unintended conflicts with well-coded plugins for no fault of the plugins’. One issue that had dogged Photonic […]

I had made a rather uncharacteristic error in the previous version of Photonic, which necessitated a patch so quickly. I have made version 2.22 of Photonic public today with the following changes: The conditional inclusion of scripts was not working for Gutenberg blocks. This was a careless error on my part, and I have rectified […]

Photonic Version 2.21 is out. The core focus of this release is performance, and there are several pieces that should help here. Conditional and Deferred Loading: Photonic has two main components on the front-end – JavaScript and CSS. In this release I have ensured that the JS for Photonic gets included only on pages where […]

I had to patch the version of Photonic that I released yesterday. Version 2.20 contains the following changes: A fix for sites running PHP 5.4 and below. Older versions of PHP were throwing a fatal error due to some additional checks that I had put in. You should be able to safely run Photonic on […]

Version 2.19 of Photonic is now available. One of the big things I had intended for this release was the drastic simplification of authentication for Google. As most users are aware, getting an API key for Google Photos is a lot more cumbersome than newbies bargain for, and authentication is riddled with challenges. The simplification […]

I have just now released version 2.17 of Photonic. The following are covered in this release: Flickr private albums were not showing up in the interactive gallery builder – this should be working now There was an apparent conflict with Divi due to Divi overriding some of WP’s native styles. This was causing the WordPress […]

Happy New Year! On my second day back from my break I have been able to release version 2.17 of Photonic. This version has the following bug fixes: Zenfolio photosets with “smart” names were not being pulled up correctly. E.g. If you had a photoset that had an id such as “birthday”, that wouldn’t show. […]

In the middle of the holidays I managed to quickly code up some improvements to Photonic. This release has the following changes: I added a “filter” capability in the interactive workflow to generate shortcodes. Particularly in cases where you have way too many albums, the filter will let you rapidly narrow your search results. I […]

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I will be taking a break for a couple of weeks, traveling internationally. In the meanwhile I have released version 2.14 of Photonic. Like the previous version this one too has minor fixes: In some scenarios Flickr collections were not showing nested collections. This […]