Comments on: Fresh Shashin Support Thread http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/ Mike Toppa's Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24691 Mike Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:45:19 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24691 Hi Ernest - you're getting an error message from Shashin in your sidebar, so the widget is being called, but something is making it unhappy. Try using this php code in your sidebar instead of the widget: <pre><?php echo Shashin::getRandom('any',160,1,1,'n','center'); ?></pre> This will give you one random image at 160x160, chosen from any of your albums. This is the function the widget is calling in the background, so lets see if this works. Note your theme should have a statement like this in its sidebar: <pre><?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?></pre> The code I gave you needs to go after this opening "if" statement, and before the closing "endif;" Hi Ernest – you’re getting an error message from Shashin in your sidebar, so the widget is being called, but something is making it unhappy. Try using this php code in your sidebar instead of the widget:

<?php echo Shashin::getRandom('any',160,1,1,'n','center'); ?>

This will give you one random image at 160×160, chosen from any of your albums. This is the function the widget is calling in the background, so lets see if this works.

Note your theme should have a statement like this in its sidebar:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

The code I gave you needs to go after this opening “if” statement, and before the closing “endif;”

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24690 Mike Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:32:36 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24690 Hi MikeR - you found a bug! I'll fix it in the next Shashin update. Hi MikeR – you found a bug! I’ll fix it in the next Shashin update.

]]> By: Ernest http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24672 Ernest Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:59:27 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24672 Hi Mike, yeah, i have tried other widgets in the sidebar and they work fine. I also had a diff picasa plugin that used widgets and it also worked, so i dont think i have a general problem with widgets. Im not sure what u mean by "configuring" the widgets, but I did go through appearance-widgets and drag the shashin widget to the sidebar, selected the album, left the default values. is there anything else i need to do? is there any other way to get a slideshow into the sidebar, besides the "automated" way in the admin/widget section? thanks. hope ur boys are doing better! Ernest Hi Mike,
yeah, i have tried other widgets in the sidebar and they work fine. I also had a diff picasa plugin that used widgets and it also worked, so i dont think i have a general problem with widgets.
Im not sure what u mean by “configuring” the widgets, but I did go through appearance-widgets and drag the shashin widget to the sidebar, selected the album, left the default values. is there anything else i need to do? is there any other way to get a slideshow into the sidebar, besides the “automated” way in the admin/widget section?
thanks. hope ur boys are doing better!
Ernest

]]> By: MikeR http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24670 MikeR Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:27:41 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24670 Mike, Yes, the example you provided is what I am looking for. I can Beta for you if you like. My site is http://www.newmarketstingrays.org. On the right you can see the two plugins. Hover over the picture, then hover over the title link of the picture. You will see the different links. Mike,
Yes, the example you provided is what I am looking for. I can Beta for you if you like.

My site is http://www.newmarketstingrays.org. On the right you can see the two plugins. Hover over the picture, then hover over the title link of the picture. You will see the different links.

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24666 Mike Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:42:46 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24666 Hi MikeR - yes, it's intentional that the album thumbnails widget links directly to Picasa rather than using Highslide. This is because Highslide requires thumbnails of photos to be on the page so it can expand them, and this isn't practical to do with all of an album's photos in the sidebar. But in the next version of Shashin, I'll add support for Highslide's new thumbstrips, which will make this possible. You can see an example here: http://www.highslide.com/examples/gallery-thumbstrip-above.html I'm not sure what you mean by the title link pointing to your last post. Can you give me a link so I can see? Hi MikeR – yes, it’s intentional that the album thumbnails widget links directly to Picasa rather than using Highslide. This is because Highslide requires thumbnails of photos to be on the page so it can expand them, and this isn’t practical to do with all of an album’s photos in the sidebar. But in the next version of Shashin, I’ll add support for Highslide’s new thumbstrips, which will make this possible. You can see an example here: http://www.highslide.com/examples/gallery-thumbstrip-above.html

I’m not sure what you mean by the title link pointing to your last post. Can you give me a link so I can see?

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24665 Mike Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:38:27 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24665 Mike and Janne and anyone else having trouble with Picasa videos: Picasa has changed the URLs for its videos. This change happened sometime in the past month. The video URLs now expire - it appears they are good for 10 hours. I did a Google search and couldn't find any documentation of this change. Unfortunately I don't see a way to "translate" the new URLs so they'll look exactly like the old URLs (they each have different encrypted keys), but I'm going to experiment with altering them in other ways to see if I can get them to work indefinitely. The reason old videos are still ok is because Shashin doesn't check for a change in URL when syncing. For the sake of syncing quickly, it only checks for changes in certain fields. If you do something like change a caption on an old video, then it will update the URL and all the other data. Mike and Janne and anyone else having trouble with Picasa videos:

Picasa has changed the URLs for its videos. This change happened sometime in the past month. The video URLs now expire – it appears they are good for 10 hours. I did a Google search and couldn’t find any documentation of this change. Unfortunately I don’t see a way to “translate” the new URLs so they’ll look exactly like the old URLs (they each have different encrypted keys), but I’m going to experiment with altering them in other ways to see if I can get them to work indefinitely.

The reason old videos are still ok is because Shashin doesn’t check for a change in URL when syncing. For the sake of syncing quickly, it only checks for changes in certain fields. If you do something like change a caption on an old video, then it will update the URL and all the other data.

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24664 Mike Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:34:03 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24664 Hi Ernest - sorry for the delay getting back to you. I can't tell much from the error message on your site. Just to make sure, did you configure the widget in your WP admin? (the "widgets" link under the "Appearance" tab). If that part is ok, try using a widget other than a Shashin widget (if you haven't already) just to make sure you're not having a general problem with widgets. Hi Ernest – sorry for the delay getting back to you. I can’t tell much from the error message on your site. Just to make sure, did you configure the widget in your WP admin? (the “widgets” link under the “Appearance” tab). If that part is ok, try using a widget other than a Shashin widget (if you haven’t already) just to make sure you’re not having a general problem with widgets.

]]> By: MikeR http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24655 MikeR Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:09:17 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24655 Mike, I'm using two "Album Thumbnails" and "Random Images" widgets. The "Random Images" widget is behaving as I want using HIGHSLIDE. However the "Album Thumbnails" is not firing HIGHSLIDE. I looked into the code and see that _getDivMarkup does not have the javascript code in it in ShashinAlbum.php. Is that by design? As a consequence of the javascript not taking over the click event, I also see that the title link points to my last post, not to picasaweb.google.com as the link on the picture does. I don't believe that is by design. regards, MikeR Mike,
I’m using two “Album Thumbnails” and “Random Images” widgets. The “Random Images” widget is behaving as I want using HIGHSLIDE. However the “Album Thumbnails” is not firing HIGHSLIDE. I looked into the code and see that _getDivMarkup does not have the javascript code in it in ShashinAlbum.php. Is that by design?

As a consequence of the javascript not taking over the click event, I also see that the title link points to my last post, not to picasaweb.google.com as the link on the picture does. I don’t believe that is by design.

regards,
MikeR

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24636 Mike Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:50:29 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24636 Hi,great pluggin! I am having a similar problem as Janne, with videos only playing for a couple of hours after adding them. I am also having a problem with highslide and videos - they will only play in highslide if I am logged in. Photos work fine, logged in or out. Many thanks, Mike Hi,great pluggin!

I am having a similar problem as Janne, with videos only playing for a couple of hours after adding them. I am also having a problem with highslide and videos – they will only play in highslide if I am logged in. Photos work fine, logged in or out.

Many thanks,

Mike

]]> By: Ernest http://www.toppa.com/2009/fresh-shashin-support-thread/#comment-24508 Ernest Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:26:06 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=2648#comment-24508 Hi, thanks for the great plugin! I'm having some trouble getting the widgets/sidebar to work. when i try i get the "unable to retrieve photos error". It seems to work okay when i just input in post/page.(see site pls) all albums show up (with pics) in the admin page, and i believe i am using all updated software thanks! Hi,
thanks for the great plugin! I’m having some trouble getting the widgets/sidebar to work. when i try i get the “unable to retrieve photos error”. It seems to work okay when i just input in post/page.(see site pls)
all albums show up (with pics) in the admin page, and i believe i am using all updated software
thanks!

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