Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
I released version 2.60 of Photonic earlier today. This is a major release that completes the modernization of the underlying framework of the plugin. Without much ado, here are the key highlights of this release: Switch to Modern JavaScript Undoubtedly one of the biggest undertakings in Photonic’s history, this update delivers a rewrite of the […]
I released version 2.46 of Photonic a couple of hours back. Contrary to what I was planning for the release, this ended up being a much smaller patch to address a few things: Instagram oEmbed Deprecation I have often railed at Facebook for making things needlessly complicated when it comes to Instagram. In this latest […]
Ever since I started work on WordPress in 2009, I have been a big proponent of jQuery. Up until recently almost all my projects used jQuery, with Kon-Tiki eventually breaking the trend by discarding JavaScript altogether. The jQuery library came into prominence with a host of contemporaries – MooTools, Scriptaculous etc. It propagated the concept […]
I missed providing the change log for the last couple of Photonic releases, but both were fairly minor and dealt mostly with stabilization. Anyway, for the sake of completeness, here goes: 2.44 I removed the capability to show “more buttons” on archive views. This was a feature that was rarely used, if ever, but took […]
I have released version 2.43 of Photonic. This is a stability patch addressing the following issues after last week’s big 2.40 upgrade: Trying to create a new post on PHP 5.6.x was causing a fatal error. This should be fine now. There was a corner case conflict between the use of the standard WP hook, […]
I released a patch for Photonic via version 2.42. This has primarily the following bug fixes: On the gallery wizard, if you clicked “Load More” for a SmugMug gallery, that was not working. The Beaver Builder integration was partially broken. Galleries for Google Photos were not showing up on the dedicated gallery page. Just calling […]
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 […]