Comments on: Shashin 2.4 Available at WordPress.org

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:48:57 +0000

Hi Jim – Shashin has an option to display the name of the album in the photo caption, but currently the album title is not linked. But it’s a good idea to make it a link. I’ll add this to the to-do list for the next version. If you’d like to edit your current version of Shashin to do this, let me know, and I’ll help you with the code.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:45:44 +0000

Hi Prasad – can you show me the code you’re using for the random images in your index.php file? If you selected “Use Highslide” on the Shashin settings page, then it should use Highslide for displaying your random pictures. Are you sure you’re not trying to display album thumbnails? I ask because the only time this settings does not apply is when you have album thumbnails in your sidebar. In that case Shashin points to the the album at Picasa, since it wouldn’t be practical to try loading all the album thumbnails in the sidebar.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:19:10 +0000

Hi Ocassio – please show me exactly how you’re using the tag so I can try to help you.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:12:36 +0000

Hi Prasad and Jim – I haven’t forgotten you – I’ve had a busy few days, and I’ll check into your questions tomorrow.

By: photo pingalerie

photo pingalerie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:28:24 +0000

Hi Mike,
exactly, my question was: I can attach a navigation-led above and down to the next and previous side.

Much it harms that it did not also funktiniert unfortunately with you. Nevertheless I am very enthusiastic by your Plugin and thank you for the fast answer and your efforts.

I wish still another beautiful day and many greetings from Berlin

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:27:41 +0000

Hi pingalerie – the Highslide documentation lists above and below as options for positioning the navbar (that it, placing it completely above or below the photo itself, which is what I think you’re asking), but in my testing I was not able to get it to work.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:24:19 +0000

For anyone curious about DM’s question, he and I are emailing each other to figure out what’s happening with the random photos on his site. So far it seems to be unique to how he is using Shashin. I’ll post an update when it’s resolved.

By: Occasio Gee

Occasio Gee — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:49:15 +0000

For some reason my site is not recognizing the tag. Any idea what I’m missing

By: Jim Reitz

Jim Reitz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:25:28 +0000

Michael – thanks as always for your hard work on Shashin. After using Shashin – here’s one feature I’d love to see:

RANDOM PHOTO FEATURE – my friends and family like seeing the random photo that I have displaying in the WP sidebar. Several of them have asked “How do I find which album that photo is from, so I can see more of them?”. Would be nice if there was some way to display the name of the containing album, along with a link to open that album.

Is this feasible? Seems like it would depend on how easy it is to inject HTML into a Highslide caption. Thanks again…

By: Prasad

Prasad — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:18:16 +0000

Thanks Mike!
Perhaps the best tools around! I was about to spend a lot of time writing custom code to read out the Picasa feed and display a photo gallery. Shashin works great on WP 2.7.1
Btw, out of curiosity, what does Shashin mean?

Also, I’ve used a custom front page (created my own index.php). The Random Images plugin there does not use HighSlide but instead opens the link in Picasa? That’s too bad for me since my posts pages jazzily open up the images whereas my welcome page goes to Picasa. Can you please help?

Thanks again.