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 […]

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 […]

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 […]