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Flickr favourites and Zooomr smartsets as slideshows

Just for completeness, here are demonstrations of Flickr favourites, and Zooomr SmartSet as slideshows. The xsl for the Flickr one will be added to the distribution shortly.

My Flickr favourites:

My “Star jumps” smartset at Zooomr:

You might notice that some images on Zooomr sets and favourites appear very blocky. This is due to them being old images, uploaded before the Zooomr team changed the URLs of the large images, so that they were predictable from the thumbnail image URL. In case you’re wondering, the change happened some time between the 12th and the 27th of August 2006, so photos uploaded then or earlier will appear blocky. Unfortunately, there’s no way to fix it.

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5 Responses to “Flickr favourites and Zooomr smartsets as slideshows”

  1. kf Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    Hi dave!

    Your plugin looks great! Unfortunately I got stuck getting it to work with my zooomr smartset.

    I want to show this smartset
    http://beta.zooomr.com/smartsets/kifo/13123

    So I figured I have to include this in my post
    !slideshow!ss1!http://beta.zooomr.com/smartsets/kifo/13123!xslt=xsl/zooomrset.xsl!

    Is that right? Or do I have to copy that zooomrset.xsl to somewhere else?

    Thanks!

  2. Dave Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    kf,

    You’re almost right. Try xslt=dge-slideshow/zooomrset.xsl instead.

    Cheers,
    Dave.

  3. kf Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Hi Dave,

    Thanks for your response! I tried your solution but it didn’t work for me.

    I shall try copying the zooomerset.xsl to other directories and see if it works. Or must that xsl file remain in wp-content/plugins/dge-slideshow/xsl ???

  4. Dave Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    Sorry, I just realised you’re using 0.391. In that case, use xslt=dge-slideshow/xsl/zooomrset.xsl

    You’d be better off in the long run setting up a preset for this purpose to save you some typing. Go to wp-admin >> options >> slideshow and adding a preset with name “zooomrset”, value of “xslt=dge-slideshow/xsl/zooomrset.xsl” (remove the quotes though). From then on you can just type
    !slideshow![id]![url]!preset=zooomrset!

    Cheers,
    Dave.

  5. Dave Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

    By the errors on your page, it looks like you don’t have php 5. That’s a requirement at the moment for the slideshow. I don’t know enough about using xml and dom manipulation with php 4, but if you find a fix, I will happily incorporate it into the code. Unfortunately, I don’t have any spare time just now to learn php4/dom.

    Sorry,
    Dave

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