Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
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 […]
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 […]
It has been almost 4 months since Gutenberg was released (on 6th December 2018) or foisted upon unsuspecting users, depending on your point of view. I had posted about it on my blog earlier as well as on the WordPress Reviews section, but I did want to revisit it now that I have had some […]
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 […]
This post essentially marks the end-of-life of support for Suffusion from this website. The Aquoid Support Forum was the one-stop-shop for Suffusion support as well as for support provided for other plugins I have built over the years. However it was beset by problems, primary among them being the insanely high number of spammers who […]
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 […]