I don’t know what’s up, but zooomr is returning error pages instead of the favourites and sets pages, and my plugin’s broken as a result. There’s nothing really that I can do at the moment. Follow progress in this discussion thread on Zooomr.
Yesterday I tagged version 0.4 of my slideshow plugin (and 0.93 of the underlying inlinerss plugin), and upgraded this site to use it.
The surprise new feature that I managed to knock together over the weekend is a full-screen mode. It was easy at first, taking a couple of hours on Saturday, but then I looked at it in Internet Explorer and it was a mess. The sooner IE6 is dead, the better. 7 is a huge improvement.
If you’re here for the slideshow plugin, please bear in mind that all Zooomr feeds and pages are currently down due to the upgrade to Mark III. I expect a few glitches once the site returns too.
This Wordpress installation uses the latest stable versions of my slideshow plugin. To see what’s around the corner, visit the Testing Grounds. Be warned though: you might be disappointed as it could well be broken.
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.
I managed to get Zooomr sets working by modifying the xslt from last night’s post, but it was too easy, so I’ve knocked up new translations to grab my Zooomr favourites page instead.
2008/03/22: Sorry, this seems to be broken, but I don’t have to figure out why. I imagine it’s because of the recent zooomr upgrade. The zooomr smartset example still works though.
Once again demonstrating the power of xslt, here is a Flickr photoset pulled into a slideshow. The actual photoset is here.
I’ll explain how I did it tomorrow, and attempt the same for Zooomr. Time for bed, at last!
The Zooomr team seem to have fixed their feeds now, as Flickr did in December. This means that all plugins that use XSLT to transform a Zooomr feed need to change their “media” namespace declaration, as outlined in the link above.
If you’re using my slideshow plugin you should either update to the latest version from wp-plugins.org, or hand edit your forward.xslt and reverse.xslt files to add the / on the end of the media namespace definition.
This post is for “ovidiu”, whoever you are.
The request (from a comment on another post) was to do a slideshow from images found in a wordpress feed on his site. All I had to do was modify my XSLT file a little to convert your category feed into the format the slideshow expects.
Flickr has fixed a bug in their RSS feeds which will affect a lot of people who write tools based on the feeds. Read on for more.