In this final release of 1.5.0 I’ve added photo set support that allows you to browse your personal photo sets as well as take advantage of the Lightbox photo set functionality when inserting photos into posts. An example:

Wordcamp Melbourne 2007

Also PHP 5 is now required to use this plugin otherwise you’ll receive the following error:
ERROR: You’re currently running 4.x.x and you must have at least PHP 5 in order to use Flickr Manager!

If you don’t have PHP 5 and have no way of installing it I believe version 1.4.5 will still function in some of the later releases of PHP 4.

The new Browse Panel

So some of you may have noticed already that yesterday I released version 1.5.0a of my Flickr Manager plugin. The main point of this version update was because of all the development that’s been going on lately, the code has been getting rather thrown together and confusing, so I’ve restructured and rewritten most of the code to make it easier to understand and develop future releases. Because of such a major overhaul a few bugs may have slipped through so this is the reason for releasing it as an alpha. So please if you try the new release of the plugin and are experiencing problems let me know with as many details as possible. Otherwise if you’re not game enough to try out the new version please revert back to 1.4.5 (available here).

I’ve also added a “Limit size of images in the browse window” option, which keeps all the images in the browse panel to maintain a constant size of either square or thumbnail depending on your preference to save loading times.

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.

Well I’ve spent a good portion of my day bug fixing and managed to stumble upon some fairly huge ones. One in particular wouldn’t let you save or publish posts and pages. Little did I realize WordPress use a hidden field called ‘action’ which was being broken by a hidden field in the Flickr Manager panel called ‘action’. Another bug I found was that the AJAX script I wrote wasn’t functioning properly under IE because it seems to parse links differently when compared to Firefox.

So anyway I’ve issued a new version ‘1.2.0′ release of my WordPress Flickr Manager on the WordPress extend page. If you’re experiencing issues with the plugin please upgrade to the latest version. If you’ve noticed anything buggy about the new version I’d really appreciate it if you let me know.

Please download the updated version of the plugin available here.

After about three weeks of waiting my Flickr Manager Subversion repository finally got approved over on the WordPress.org extend page. I’ll be using that to release the latest versions of my plugin, and because it’s only relatively new I’m in a frantic effort to iron out as many bugs as possible, so please email me or leave a comment with as many specific details as possible of any finds. Also if you have any great ideas or improvement suggestions just let me know, I’m always looking for ways to improve it.

Since its release on WordPress.org I had to make a minor release change to account for the change in directory name on my repository. WordPress Flickr Manager v1.1.1 contains a few bug fixes and a plugin directory name change and is available here.

Edit: I just released 1.1.2, in which I converted all AJAX requests to use the prototype library. 

At long last! If you’ve been waiting on the edge of your seat for the release of WordPress Flickr Manager 1.1, your week long journey is finally at an end. With this latest arrival, I added a few bells and whistles which have made my ‘Flickring’ and blogging all the easier, such as the new ‘Flickr Manager’ panel that appears now just below the tinyMCE editor in your administration panel. This new addition is feature packed, it allows for drag-drop image insertion into your posts, as well as a new and improved upload form.

The browse panel allows for filtering of images through the use of a tag search, as well as the selection of the various image sizes that Flickr have to offer (remember you can still customize the size of the image from within tinyMCE). The time where you would have to leave your post, go to Flickr and copy the code for your image is at an end. Now it’s as simple as drag and drop. This brings me to the next tab on the panel, the shiny new upload form.

From here I can upload new images, including various meta details such as the title, tags, and the description. It’s now all strapped together with AJAX style functionality so you’ll never have to leave your post for anything.

The files are available in zip and tar.gz.