Flickr

Inserting Photos from Flickr (🔗)

You need some preliminary steps to make Photonic pull photos from Flickr. Once you are done you can start building your galleries. In the Classic Editor you can use the “Add / Edit Photonic Gallery” button:

For Gutenberg you can use the Photonic block:

In the resultant dialog click on Flickr to get started

In both cases you can alternatively use a shortcode to build your galleries. By default Photonic uses the galleryshortcode, but you can configure that from Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Generic Settings → Custom Shortcode.

Using Photonic with simple parameters you can display almost everything from Flickr:

• Photos
• Photosets
• Galleries
• Collections
• Single Photos
• Authentication

You can also control various skinning aspects of how the thumbnails are displayed.

Steps to Make Flickr Work (🔗)

Getting Photonic to work with Flickr is a two-step process:

1. Get an API Key
   Every Flickr call needs to have an associated API key. Theoretically I could have bundled my own API key with Photonic, but this presents a challenge: API Rate Limiting. API Rate Limiting is a process by which a service provider (Flickr in this case) puts a limit on how many calls can be made by an application. Flickr caps this at 3600 per hour for free API keys. Given the large number of users of the plugin, if I bundled my key, visitors of your website would start seeing errors as soon as the threshold of 3600 was reached. Photonic is free software in every sense, so I cannot apply for an expensive commercial key. Hence the plugin requires users to specify their own keys.
2. Start building your galleries
   Really, it is that easy! You can insert your galleries into posts or pages with a very simple interface as linked in the documentation above.

Obtaining an API Key (🔗)

Use of the Flickr capabilities in Photonic requires a Flickr API key. Obtaining a Key for Flickr is easy but essential. To get one:

1. Go to the Flickr App Garden page.
2. Determine if you require a commercial or non-commercial key, and then click on the link that says “Apply for your key online now“. On the resultant page click on the option applicable to you.
3. You will be brought to a page where you can fill out details of your request.
   

   

4. Click “SUBMIT”, and you will be taken to a page that looks like this:
   

   

   
   The above can be seen from https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/by/your-user-name as well.
5. Copy the information into the Flickr Settings page of Photonic, reachable from Photonic → Settings → Flickr → Flickr Settings:
   

   

6. Save the Photonic settings.

That’s it! You are now ready to roll with Photonic for Flickr, now!