Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
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 […]
It has been a while since I have posted here! Over the past few months a combination of factors have kept me from posting an update to Photonic – pressures at work, complexity of updates etc. However, there was one big-ticket item that needed doing – an Instagram API update. For the lack of features […]
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 […]
After almost 10 years this website features a new theme, Kon-Tiki. I started working on this quite some time back, but various priorities kept pushing this to the back-burner until I finally decided to go ahead and release it live on a couple of my sites. My personal page has had this for over a […]
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 […]