Version 1.66 of Photonic is now out. This release has the following items: Video Support This is the big ticket item in this version. Like everything Photonic, video support is very comprehensive. I have added support for videos within Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, Zenfolio and Instagram, as well as self-hosted MP4 files, and videos from YouTube […]

After a hiatus of almost 14 months I have been able to release a new update for Photonic. While this version comes after a long time, I have been extremely active on the support forum, often responding to issues in minutes. It is just that this release featured one big ticket item, which took me […]

I have just released Photonic Version 1.64, with quite a few big features: Masonry Layout Masonry layouts had never been a part of Photonic because, to be honest, I never got results that I desired with the jQuery Masonry script. So after 6 years of the plugin’s existence when I decided to integrate Masonry, things […]

Photonic Version 1.63 has been released with two major updates requiring contrasting levels of development skill: TinyMCE Integration One of the most frequently raised support topics for Photonic was that upon inserting a gallery the user was presented with “No Items Found”. In each of those instances, upon performing troubleshooting what I found is that […]

Version 1.62 of Photonic is now out. The following are included in this release: Slideshow Layout Up until now the native WP galleries could be displayed in a slideshow mode, by setting style=’no-strip’, style=’strip-below’ or style=’strip-above’. Now you can do this for any type of gallery. Since the other galleries don’t have a style attribute, […]

I have had to release version 1.61 as a patch for older PHP versions. There was a line of code that was causing the Flickr interface to crash (and occasionally bring down websites) if the PHP version was old.

Version 1.60 of Photonic is now out. This version has the following updates: “Count” support in SmugMug Photonic interfaces for all providers have had a capability to restrict the number of photos pulled. Flickr has per_page, Google Photos / Picasa max_results, Zenfolio limit, 500px rpp (results per page), and Instagram count. The big exception to […]

I have just released version 1.59 of Photonic. This is a very big release, with a lot of far-reaching changes: Rewritten Instagram Integration: Some time in June 2016 Instagram made several changes to its API. Every service provider makes changes to APIs (SmugMug has done it, Twitter has done it, and, notoriously, Google has done […]

At the cusp of the new year, I have released a new version of Photonic with some big, and difficult changes. Deep-Linking This has been a very, very difficult thing to implement. Every image in a Photonic gallery is now assigned a unique id, which, when appended to the URL, is called a deep-link. This […]

As outlined in my previous post, I updated Photonic to use the latest version of Smugmug’s API, v2. Apparently this causes your API keys to stop working unless you provide some authorization. Don’t worry – it is a lot easier than it sounds. This is what you do: Login to your Smugmug account. Go to […]