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 […]

The last few days have been interesting. Ever since WP 5.0 has released, I have watched, bemusedly, as the ratings for Gutenberg plummeted at unimaginable speeds – before the release of WP 5.0 the plugin had around 960 single-star ratings, but once the new version landed, this number shot up to 1120+. It managed twice […]

If you haven’t heard, WP 5.0 featuring Gutenberg is here. If you haven’t had a chance to form your opinion about it, do ensure that you download a copy of the “Classic Editor” plugin to recover from any shock caused by Gutenberg. Displaying behaviour that has been symptomatic of Gutenberg all along, I will move […]

I have released version 2.11 of Photonic with the following changes: JavaScript Optimization When Photonic started out in September 2011 it only had support for two lightboxes – Colorbox and Fancybox. About a month later I added support for PrettyPhoto, and then for a long period of time I didn’t add anything else. About 4 […]