The Zooomr Plugin for Wordpress

Jun 29, 2006 | by S.Tabani | Read | Jump to Comments

The Official Page of the ZooomrRSS Plugin is moved to the ZooomrRSS page.

Consider this the official release of the ZooomrRSS Plugin for Wordpress. This plugin will allow you to add Zooomr images using the features of Zooomr RSS. At the moment, it’s based off of flickrRSS plugin. Another thing of note is that it allows image chaching, and all the features of the FlickrRSS plugin. The images sizes don’t really work, so are disabled, but an added width and height chooser is added. It’s currently in it’s alpha releases, and i’m still doing some beta testing to make it work. If you have any problems, please contact me.

  • Download here (ZIP Format): ZooomrRSS.zip
  • Download here (RAR Format): !currently unavailable!

As for the versions, there are two. The regular version uses the get_zooomrrss function while the compatibility version uses the default get_flickrrss function (for themes that have flickr built in). Both are included in the packages above.
As for those who want to know how to install, at the moment it’s the exact same as flickrRSS. You can find further instructions in the Readme file, or drop me a line by the contact page.

Update 1: Removed the download link since I had to remove the download. Coming Soon, I promise.

Update 2: Thanks to the comments, I have fixed some things to make the lists work.

Update 3: Fixed more stuff, and thanks to the wonderful work of Kristopher Tate (founder and developer of Zooomr, added options to change the image size). No more manual change of width and height.

Update 4: Fixed the RSS feed problem for the different file names in certain accounts. Basically, it should work now. Suggestions welcomed (real.techie (at) no.spam gmail (dot) com). Bumped version to 1.0, tested as much as possible. Wrong again. The cache dosn’t work, hopefully will get it to work by tonight. Also, some other problems. Don’t use this plugin. period.

Update 5: Fixed Caching, figured that the plugin can’t be used without local caching. Will write a new readme and upload as soon as possible. Moved the development news to it’s dedicated page at TechiecityOS

Update 6: Fixed Download Link. Testing in WP2.1 is limited, it does work, but cache may not.

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  1. Robert Day says:

    July 4th, 2006 at 1:50 am (#)

    Hi,
    What are you going to do with TechieCity.net?

    Thanks for commenting on my blog aswell! Keep up the good work on this theme..

  2. stabani says:

    July 4th, 2006 at 5:36 pm (#)

    probably going to turn it into my webdesigning site, not too sure really.

  3. Amos Griffin says:

    July 11th, 2006 at 10:07 am (#)

    stabani, thanks for the plugin, been hoping someone might have plugerized zooomr. however i couldn’t get it to work. downloaded it, uploaded and activited it without any problems. visited the options page. entered my zooomr photo url, saved cahnges and placed the flickr call into my template. nothing showed up though.

    i tried different parameters but got nothing, no error message, just a blan space where my flickr photos used to go. i was using flickrrss prior to this so feel somewhat knowledgeable but there’s a good chance i’m doing something wrong. maybe it’s the css styling i have for my flickr photos?

    nonetheless, much love for putting the time into this.

  4. stabani says:

    July 11th, 2006 at 10:25 pm (#)

    ooops, tested it out on my personal server, not much else. New version will be up as soon as I get rid of the annoying Mate1.com Spyware crap.

  5. Amos Griffin says:

    July 12th, 2006 at 2:17 am (#)

    no problems stabani. could be something i’m doing on my end but i’m a patient man. i’ll be watching for the update. looking forward to getting my zooomr photos on the blog.

  6. stabani says:

    July 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pm (#)

    Amos: No Idea what’s happening at that end. Are you sure you entered your userid correctly? For me it was 1151500705_8701, but depending on your login method it might be different. Also, make sure you are using this function: < ?php get_flickrrss(); ?>. Don’t pass manual parameters, use the options page alone. If not that, pass me your userid and I’ll check out things from my end.
    cyao

  7. Amos Griffin says:

    July 12th, 2006 at 9:11 pm (#)

    i think i’m doing it correctly, i’m not adding any parameters and to keep it simple i’ve used the default settings on the option page, but i’m still getting an empty place where the pictures would go. i tired placing the php in various places, sidebar, bottom block, but no luck anywhere. my zooomr user id is wetslam

    thanks for taking a look. appreciated.

  8. stabani says:

    July 13th, 2006 at 3:02 pm (#)

    hmm, i guess you are right. I’m perplexed by this, but Zooomr2.0 is taking place and I’m guessing that a lot of things will probably be broken. So I’ll take a look at it after zooomr is back on.

  9. Lisa says:

    July 21st, 2006 at 4:50 pm (#)

    Love the blog -I always look forward to the posts here !!

  10. Jason says:

    July 23rd, 2006 at 6:39 am (#)

    Love that someone did this.

    However, just tried using it and since I already have flickrRSS loaded, trying to activate it gave me a fatal error due to it using the same function names. I probably should have realized it would do that, but you may want to add a note saying not to try using both at the same time. :)

    That all being said, is making the two play together somewhere on your roadmap?

  11. stabani says:

    July 24th, 2006 at 12:14 am (#)

    yes, its actuallly not hard. I just haven’t done it yet since during testing I didnt want to mess around with having another call. If you want it, I’m more than happy to email you a zooomrrss call version.

  12. Michael says:

    July 24th, 2006 at 4:24 am (#)

    Hi! I like your plugin. Found some errors: The height of the picture was not shown correctly. Line 102 and line 105 are using $option_width, I couldn’t find this variable in the script. You are using $width in line 26 for reading the option from the DB. I changed the names and the plugin worked in Firefox and IE.

  13. stabani says:

    July 24th, 2006 at 1:48 pm (#)

    @Michael: Thanks, don’t know what really happened there, but it “was” working on my test site. Will take a look at it and change it

  14. Craig says:

    August 15th, 2006 at 11:26 pm (#)

    Great someone wanted to do this, but Error 404 :/

  15. stabani says:

    August 16th, 2006 at 3:00 pm (#)

    Sorry about that Craig, I plan on re-releasing it soon, but the current version just kept on breaking everything.

  16. not yet found » Blog Archive » Folter says:

    August 21st, 2006 at 3:22 am (#)

    [...] Verdammt, eigentlich wollte ich in Ruhe ein Zooomr Plugin für die Sidebar einbauen. Aber ich habe kein brauchbares gefunden, dass ich hier auf Strato benutzen kann. Vielleicht sollte ich mir doch einen dedizierten Rechner mieten? Das Plugin von Stabani ist leider immer noch nicht erreichbar. [...]

  17. Zooomr Plugin Re-Released at stabani.com v.4.0 says:

    August 26th, 2006 at 2:23 pm (#)

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  18. ZooomrRSS at stabani.com v.4.0 says:

    August 27th, 2006 at 7:21 pm (#)

    [...] Yet another update to the ZooomrRSS plugin. More like a major update, now  it supports different sizes thanks to some last night upgrades by  Kristopher Tate of Zooomr. More details at this page.  [...]

  19. Amos says:

    August 27th, 2006 at 10:18 pm (#)

    Once again, your work on this is much appreciated. However, it’s still not displaying my zooomr photos. I’ll dump a bunch of info here. Maybe it’ll help, maybe not.

    I downloaded the file above and put the zooomr.php file into my plugins folder, activated it, navigated to the ZooomrRSS options page, entered in my zooomr url (http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/wetslam). For the “Display” I used a variety of options (trying to see if any combination would work) and for “Before/After” I used li tags

    I then put the php call (, without the space there) in between ul tags into my sidebar. Nothing showed up. I tried the example you give in your read me (, without the space) and that did display a “Zooomr not configured correctly” message in the sidebar. Other than that I can’t get it to call up the photos.

    As I said before it could be something I’m doing or not seeing, but I’m keeping it simple.

  20. stabani says:

    August 28th, 2006 at 1:50 am (#)

    @Amos: Sorry for your troubles. Check the email for a customized version till I figure it out

    *EDIT* New Version (1.0) should fix that all out.`

  21. Blogs says:

    September 2nd, 2006 at 5:32 am (#)

    Hi. I am started a blog which pretty much has every subject. We generally post on coins or various subjects.

  22. killercup says:

    September 2nd, 2006 at 1:04 pm (#)

    good work! i ve ever searched for this plugin!
    i ve downloaded the newest version, activated and configured ist but when i enable caching no photos will show up, there are only links to the photo pages. whats this? i ve thought you ve fixed this bug!

  23. stabani says:

    September 4th, 2006 at 12:43 am (#)

    @killercups: Please insure you have the right paths in the options panel. Otherwise, the feature won’t work. Also, try without cache as well.

  24. Zooomr Plugin Re-Released at stabanibeta says:

    September 28th, 2006 at 2:39 pm (#)

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  25. Ash says:

    October 1st, 2006 at 8:48 pm (#)

    hello,

    perhaps you could tell me what´s wrong with my zooomr plugin. i´m testing both plugins (zooomrrss_comp.php/zooomrrss.php). upload it, activate it, but nothing happens in my sidebar. this code i insert in my sidebar:

    Zooomr

    there are no error messages :-) and no photos.

    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/ash

    thanks for helping

  26. stabani says:

    October 1st, 2006 at 8:52 pm (#)

    @ash should do the trick. Don’t use the comp. version in this case

  27. Ash says:

    October 1st, 2006 at 8:52 pm (#)

    Ups, i´m a idiot!

    i typed in the options menu
    user id: http://beta.zooomer.com/photos/ash

    great plugin :-D

  28. The Official Blog of Darin, on IM [.net] » Blog Archive » New Theme/Lighthouse/Zooomr Update/Foto Friday says:

    October 18th, 2006 at 5:17 pm (#)

    [...] I’ve also decided that I’m going to put all of my ‘photography’ pictures there too, so from now on everything I take that I think is decent, or would perhaps want to share, will be found there. Perhaps you want to bookmark that site if you haven’t already. When I switched themes and decided to go all-out Zooomr, I also installed the Zoomr Plugin for Wordpress and you can see the 20 latest images on my Zooomr page. Pay no attention to the label that says Flickr… The Zooomr plugin is just a hack of a Flickr one, and it looks like I’ll need to figure out how to get rid of that on my own. [...]

  29. Elliot says:

    October 31st, 2006 at 2:08 pm (#)

    Hello,
    Just wondering if anyone could help. I did something stupid and started my blog using a numerical archive system, and now I'd like to change it so that the post title is part of the URL for SEO reasons. Is there any Wordpress plugins that anyone knows of that could switch it without sending Googlers to invalid pages? Maybe some sort of redirector to the correct page?

    Thanks.

  30. complex » Blog Archive » complex 11/02/2006 says:

    November 3rd, 2006 at 9:00 am (#)

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  31. zooomrRSS (LootiX.com - Dein Teamspeak, Dein Blog) says:

    December 23rd, 2006 at 1:50 am (#)

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  32. Phil Bowell says:

    January 3rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm (#)

    Hi, firstly great plugin I have found it very useful. I use the version which replaces the flickr one and uses its CSS etc, but I have come into one issue. Mainly that the feed for the photos still brings up the flickr rss. Anyway you can do it so it brings the Zooomr one. I use this account more as I have pro4life status on it.

  33. stabani says:

    January 3rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm (#)

    ooops, sorry about that. forgot to change it on my own site as well. Expect a new (and fixed version) soon, though i make no promises.

  34. Phil Bowell says:

    January 8th, 2007 at 12:15 am (#)

    I managed to do something earlier while updating WordPress and plugins, I think it’s my error completely. I ended up reinstalling your plugin, which was working superbly before, but now it doesn’t seem to be working.

    I get this error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_zooomrrss() in /home/electr/public_html/phil/wp-content/plugins/zooomrRSS/zooomrrss_comp.php on line 135

    any ideas why?

  35. AJ says:

    January 10th, 2007 at 10:07 pm (#)

    Hi,
    I tried to download the page but the server times out. Same for the new perma page for the plugin on your alternate site.. Any idea when that server will be up?

  36. Mike says:

    January 21st, 2007 at 10:00 am (#)

    I’m also having trouble connecting to the techiecity.net server. I tried from Singapore, Indiana and Alberta and none of them found the server. Are you hosting the plugin anywhere else?

    Thanks!

  37. rbnet.it weblog » Archivio blog » Blog aggiornato a Wordpress 2.1 says:

    January 28th, 2007 at 4:47 am (#)

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  38. sado44 says:

    February 5th, 2007 at 1:30 pm (#)

    nice post

  39. LOLO punto ES » Blog Archive » Marchando una de plugins says:

    July 4th, 2007 at 11:23 am (#)

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    July 12th, 2007 at 4:23 pm (#)

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  41. German says:

    September 5th, 2007 at 11:49 pm (#)

    Hi,

    I’m looking for a plugin similar to “Crossroad” plugin, to can put individual Zooomr images in my posts.
    So, if you can do it, you’ll make me happy :)

    Thank you!

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    September 19th, 2007 at 8:26 pm (#)

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