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WordPress Flickr Manager's latest release now supports Lightbox 2. I've also added new "Optional Settings" such as "Enable lightbox support by default" and "Default lightbox picture", which lets you specify a default size of the image being displayed by Lightbox.

The 'Browse Photos' panel has had a bit of a face lift, it now allows for more solid control over inserted Lightbox elements such as specifying the Flickr image size to be displayed in Lightbox from picture to picture.

If you've got a suggestion that you'd like to see in a future version of Flickr Manager, let me know.

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Today I have a little surprise for all of you, I've written a new plugin which I find extremely useful, I've dubbed it "Plugin Updater". Not the most imaginative name, I know. Once it's installed it adds a new button to the plugin update notification bar, shown in the image to the right.

When you click the "Update Now" button it will automatically download the update from WordPress extend and extract it to your plugins directory.

Installation instructions:

1. Upload the folder `plugin-updater` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
2. CHMOD 777 /wp-content/plugins
3. CHMOD 777 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-updater/packages
4. Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress.

This isn't an official release, I've still got a lot of testing to do so I'm not offering any support.

If you find any bugs it would be greatly appreciated if you let me know.

NOTE: There's a known conflict issue with my "Flickr Manager" plugin, which I've since had to patch, so if you're experiencing troubles with it not doing anything when you click the "Update Now" button, please redownload Flickr Manager (or deactivate and click "Update Now" for versions earlier than 1.4.01).

It's a bit of a rushed release because I'm pretty busy at the moment, so I didn't have time to test it as much as I would have liked. I introduced a couple new features to Flickr Manager in this release, the main one being optional Lightbox support. You'll notice now on the "Browse Photos" tab an added "Insert with lightbox support" check box. When this is selected, the inserted image will display the Medium Flickr sized copy of the photo in the Lightbox window. This means if you insert a square, thumbnail or small image it will display a larger version when viewing the Lightbox image. It also allows you to specify which images load with Lightbox and which don't. For Example:

CLICK ME! I do stuff.

I'm boring and just take you to Flickr

Also another feature I added was if you don't have cURL installed on your web host it will now use fopen instead.
NOTE: File uploads to Flickr won't work unless you have cURL installed. So if everything is working except uploads, you must install cURL!

Like I said earlier, I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to test this so I'm releasing it as a beta. If you find any errors, please let me know. Thanks.

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As Nick so succinctly put it

It's like raising two children, one of whom is completely retarded

Well I just got back from my Christmas break and started to follow up the feedback I received while I was away. This led to several bug fixes and a few changes, one of which being you now simply click on the photo and it will be inserted into tinyMCE rather than drag and drop. Although drag-drop will still function, if you want the image to be wrapped in it's associated link as stated in the Flickr Community Guidelines just click on the image once you've selected your size.

A few bugs have been resolved such as when trying to upload or browse photos with a low privileged account returned "Unauthorized Access". A problem with the Flickr panel not maintaining the current page after changing the image size has also been fixed. If you find any other bugs please let me know.

As usual the updated version can be found at the WordPress extend page.

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