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1. Posted by Matias Kalwill on Friday 21st September

   Hello, your plugin looks great, it’s what i was looking for the blog + archive i’m making for my work

   Anyway flattering is not the motif of this comment, just I didn’t find an email address and wanted to let you know, your Slideshow 2 is not displaying the ‘NEXT’button/image, although when clicking on the right-side 50% it works… This I see from my Mac OS 10.39, Firefox 2. Check if it is just mine or there’s some problem your files

2. Posted by Arly on Friday 5th October

   Thank you for making nice plugins for free.

   When I have activatet “Polaroid on the Fly Wordpress Plugin”, I get this error message when I try to publish any post.

   “Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/web/217349/blog/wp-content/plugins/polaroid-on-the-fly/polaroid-on-the-fly.php:387) in /usr/home/web/wno217349/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331″

   I get the same error message when I try to deactivate the plugin.

   Arly

3. Posted by Matt on Saturday 6th October

   Arly: What version of Wordpress are you using?

4. Posted by c.k. on Sunday 7th October

   Hi Matt,

   Plug-in looks great, I’m puzzling over the requirement for Imageshack - I have to host my images there? I’m testing it and when I save the entry it returns to a blank screen. On viewing it, the lightbox portion works but the polaroid thumbnail does not show. Its currently referring to an image that’s elsewhere.

   Thanks in advance,

5. Posted by Arly on Sunday 7th October

   Hei Matt

   I have now started from the begining with new database, Wordpress 2.3, default theme, but I still have the same problem!

   Do you have any idea…

   I am working on a Mac with Safari web-browser.

   Arly

6. Posted by Matt on Monday 8th October

   c.k. : You do not have to host your images at imageshack. Polaroid-o-nizer users imageshack as a cache for the image creation instead of using a local cache. Your image can be located anywhere you like it. I would suggest using the full url to the image. If you are still having issues please feel free to contact me via the contact link in the navigation menu above. It would make diagnosing the problem easier if you send me both the <img ....> tag you are using as well a link to a post that has this plugin in use.

7. Posted by Nítio on Saturday 13th October

   @Arly: Try to convert the file from DOS formato to UNIX (dos2unix utility). I was having this error and identified that it’s because the end-line controls were breaking stuff. Works like a charm after this :)

8. Posted by Rafael on Thursday 18th October

   Hi,
   I’m would like to use the polaroid on the fly plugin. It looks really cool.

   But it doen’t work with my wp 3.2 installation.

   If I add link to the image in the post
   eg.

   the image doesn’t appear in the browser :-(

   Am I doing something wrong?

   Regards
   Rafael

9. Posted by Matt on Thursday 18th October

   @Rafael: Can you post the html you are using for the img tag? Also please make sure that you are using the code editor and not the visual editor. In addition can you give me a link to the page that you are trying to use this plugin on?

10. Posted by leadbased on Friday 19th October

    Hi Matt, I am having the same issue as Rafael… can you thin of how I might resolve this?

    By the way, as you can see, I like your style…Thanks in advance, Chad

    IMAGE TAG

    PAGE POST
    http://leadbased.com/wordpress/?p=4

11. Posted by Matt on Friday 19th October

    That is ok…I was able to determine the code used for the image tag by the output when browsing the source of that page.

    Looks like the cause is that you are using bild-1.thumbnail.png which is below the minimum resolution (200×200) for Polaroid-o-nizer. Try using bild-1.png instead.

    I’ll look into creating some sort of error message when the photo is out of the Polaroid-o-nizer ranges and update the plugin.

    So in short the answer is that this plugin will not work with images smaller than 200×200 px and greater than 2000×2000 px.

    And I also noticed that you didn’t have quotes around polaroid (ie rel=polaroid should be rel=”polaroid”)

    In addition if you want the nice javascript popup/overlay you will need to install Lightbox

12. Posted by Samy on Monday 22nd October

    Hi, I’ve just installed the plugin, but can’t make it work.
    The url i use is:
    Pic is 1024×768.

    Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

    Samy

13. Posted by Matt on Tuesday 23rd October

    With that little information I couldn’t even begin to tell you why. But I would suggest making sure that you have the PHP GD module installed.

14. Posted by Moebius on Thursday 25th October

    I’ve a problem with this plugin and with the original polarodonizer script
    I’ve installed and seems it works good, but I can’t see the border of polaroid! I see a black bordr only.

    Here what I can see… http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/1708688899_d676303552_o.jpg

    PS: server has good setting

15. Posted by youtube on Thursday 25th October

    is a nice plugin, thanks

16. Posted by Matt on Thursday 25th October

    Well, first I am going to assume that the screenshot you have linked above is of your site and you are just using my demo picture. So there are a few possibilities. The first is that in the options page you changed the background color to 0,0,0 which is black which would account for the black border around the polaroid. The drop shadow around the image will not be visible when the background color is black.

    Another possibility is that the browser you are using is displaying the image incorrectly.

    Is it possible for you to post the link to the post where the plugin is in use rather than just getting a screenshot?

17. Posted by Matt on Thursday 25th October

    I tested the demo above with IE and Firefox and it does appear to be working fine for me. As for the code for the slideshow/Next button that is Lightbox which I am not affiliated with. Feel free to contact me via the contact link in the navigation menu above if there is anything additional that I can assist you with.

18. Posted by Moebius on Thursday 25th October

    Well,
    In option page the background colour value is 255,255,255 and i’ve not changed.
    And yes… the image is yours. :)

    this is the link http://www.city2.net/blog

    PS: I’ve installed the original script http://polaroidonizer.b3ta.org/ here http://www.city2.net/polaroidonizer_v0.7.2 and if you test it you can see the same results! :(
    I don’t understand… my server values are ok (PHP, GD libraries ecc…)!

19. Posted by Matt on Monday 29th October

    Looks like after further inspection that it is a server issue as we discussed via email. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with.

20. Posted by Aimzter on Tuesday 27th November

    Hi there, wanted to say thanks for the plugin, i have just installed it and think its great. i have a simple question I believe How do i have the polaroid thumb open in a new window??

21. Posted by jd on Wednesday 28th November

    hiya,

    first i wanne say, thats what i need … but i might have some ideas for the next release. right at the moment im not familiar with your code, but specialy for i load sites it would be nice to be able to cache those images. maybe you do it already or make use of the own cache that wordpress is using if activated, but it might be a cool feature.

22. Posted by Mark on Wednesday 5th December

    Is there a way to make the thumbnail bigger?

    Thanks,

    Mark

23. Posted by Matt on Wednesday 5th December

    Great idea for the next release.

    In the mean time if you wish to modify the code yourself you can edit polaroid-on-the-fly.php. Find “height=150 width=123″ and modify the values. There are 2 locations where this needs to be modified.

24. Posted by Matt on Wednesday 5th December

    Great idea for the next release.

    To do this in the mean time you would want to modify polaroid-on-the-fly.php. Find the $replace variable and add the code to open in a new window. (html code target=”_blank”)

25. Posted by Mark on Wednesday 5th December

    Thanks! Works fine this way.

26. Posted by Mark on Wednesday 5th December

    Matt,

    I am trying to add a caption to the polaroid.

    Do you what I need to add to get a caption in there? Something like: title=”my caption”>image #1

    Maybe you can give an example?

    Thanks,

    Mark.

27. Posted by Matt on Thursday 6th December

    In wp-admin, Go to Options>Polaroid on the Fly

    Set “Use Image Captions” to “Yes”. Click “Update Options”.

    Now the text in the alt tag will appear as the caption. Keep in mind however that it will only show 8 characters in the polaroid.

    Using the example from above:

    <img src=”http://domain.tld/directory/to/image.jpg” rel=”polaroid” alt=”Picture” />

    The text “Picture” will show up as the caption.

28. Posted by Mark on Thursday 6th December

    Thanks again!

29. Posted by Aimzter on Wednesday 26th December

    fantastic, i will give this a try and let you know… also, with the intergration with lightbox on my site, it doesnt give me the next, previous options so a viewer has to click out of the picture, then click on the next thumb they want to view, any ideas?

30. Posted by Carlos on Saturday 12th January

    Hi,

    I’ve just installed your plugin but I can’t make it work (I can’t see the image thumbnail)

    PHP GD Module and Lightbox are installed and working.

    Please have a look at http://www.wesnai.com/?page_id=9

    Thanks a lot,
    carlos

31. Posted by Matt on Monday 14th January

    Another thing this plugin requires is the ability to make an http request from the server wordpress is running on to the server the image is hosted on. Perhaps your hosting provider does not allow you to make HTTP requests. There are a number of possibilities, you could always do some testing to see what the problem is. If you have SSH access to the server you could issue “wget http://url.to.image/image.jpg” and see if it can download it. Another way to check would be to try executing:

    wget http://www.wesnai.com/wp-content/plugins/polaroid-on-the-fly/gen-polaroid.php?img=MjU1LDI1NSwyNTV8fGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2FybG9zbGxlcmFuZGkuY29tL1BhbnRhbGxhem8wNy0wNi0yMDA3LTE4LjM5LjQ2LmpwZ3x8MHx8MHx8MHx8

    from the server to see if it downloads anything.

32. Posted by Carlos on Monday 14th January

    Hi,

    Thanks for your fast answer.
    I’m afraid I do not have ssh acces to the server where my web is hosted on so. Anyway, my web and the images I’m trying to use with your polaroid plugin are hosted on the same server. I’d really like to use your plugin. Any other idea on how to solve my problem?.

    Thanks a lot,
    regards,
    Carlos

33. Posted by Joseph O'Donnell on Friday 18th January

    Hi Matt,

    How would I change the default link of the polaroid from that of the source picture to a specific URL? What code would I need to change? - Thx, Joe.

34. Posted by Matt on Wednesday 23rd January

    @Joe: I assume you want to use a different frame for the final image. In that case you can either replace frame.png in the polaroid-on-the-fly directory with the one you wish to use or edit gen-polaroid.php and change the reference to frame.png on line 145.

35. Posted by eightysix on Monday 28th January

    First the code is like this :
    <img src="http://domain.tld/directory/to/image.jpg" rel="polaroid" alt="Picture[album]" />

    When I want to manage my post it changes in this direction and doesn’t work anymore:
    <img rel="polaroid" src="http://domain.tld/directory/to/image.jpg" alt="Picture[album]" />

36. Posted by Matt on Monday 28th January

    @eightysix: Make sure you never use the Visual editor when managing a post containing the code for this plugin.

    Under the Usage section I list “NOTE: Do not use the visual editor for doing the above use the code editor.”

37. Posted by Jill-Renay on Monday 28th January

    I just recently upgrade from version 5 to version 6 and now the Plugin is not working. I’m not seeing any pictures on my blog. Any idea what’s going on?

38. Posted by Jill-Renay on Monday 28th January

    Okay, seems like that was just a flinch. Everything is fine.

39. Posted by Jill-Renay on Monday 28th January

    Okay, sorry to keep posting here. But now it seems that if a user is using IE, the Polaroid is not working, but in FireFox it does. Any idea?

40. Posted by Matt on Tuesday 29th January

    @Jill-Renay: Are you sure that the problem with internet explorer isn’t just that you need to clear the cache. Try using Ctrl-F5 in IE to force a full refresh of the page.

    This plugin shouldn’t care whether or not the browser is Firefox or IE as all of the work is done server side to create the image.

    If you are still experiencing issues contact me via the contact link in the navigation menu above and give me the URL to the post containing the image.

41. Posted by Lorelai on Wednesday 30th January

    I’m having a couple issues. First off, I have text between my polaroids but it’s not showing up. Any reason why?

    Also is there a way to make the polaroids not links to the original image?

42. Posted by Gary on Wednesday 30th January

    Matt, kickarse little plugin you’ve made there, brother. Thank you very much, keep up the great work!

43. Posted by Lorelai on Wednesday 30th January

    So I’ve gotten it mostly fixed but I still need to know how to get rid of the links on the photos and also i’m adding the alts for titles under each photo and for some reason they start quoting rel= as part of the photo title. heres the site with the problem: http://yruustar.org/contact

44. Posted by Matt on Thursday 31st January

    @Lorelai: You need to make sure that all of your img tag attributes are formatted properly. All attributes should have quotes surrounding the value after the equals (=) sign. For example:

    <img src="http://domain.tld/directory/to/image.jpg" rel="polaroid" alt="Picture" />

45. Posted by Matt on Thursday 31st January

    In addition please remember to use the code editor and not the visual editor when making these changes. And do not use the visual editor in the future when making changes to this page/post.

46. Posted by miss c on Saturday 16th February

    I am trying to use the Polaroid on the Fly plugin on my ‘about’ page (to begin with) and it works fine to display, but clicking on the pictures is a drag - it just opens the image in the browser window and my site is gone, which is not great.

    I want the Lightbox style pop up window (I have lightbox installed and using wordpress) so how do I do this?

    and how do I use the new features -
    # Added option to select how the image will open. (ie. new window, self)
    # Added option to specify the hright and width of the thumbnail

    I want my thumbnails to be double the size.

    thanks,
    cb

47. Posted by Matt on Saturday 16th February

    @ miss c: I think there was something incorrectly formatted in the <img ... /> that you are using. First, please make sure that you are not using the “Visual” editor but are using the “Code” editor.

    Second, here is a sample of the first image that you have on your about page:

    <img src="http://www.bellaphonic.com/images/clare1.jpg" rel="polaroid" alt="miss clare[me]" />

    Third, you will want to go to log into the Admin area and go to Options>Polaroid on the Fly. Set “Use Lightbox” to yes. And double the Width and Height.

48. Posted by Jenn on Friday 22nd February

    First of all, I love this plugin.

    I do have one question. Is there anyway to set the dimensions of the plugin based on each photo instead of all photos having to be the same size? How often I actually use the plugin will be based on my ability to conform the photo to the dimensions I have set for the polaroid without stretching the photo out of proportion. Is there a way to adjust the polaroid based on each individual photo?

49. Posted by Matt on Friday 22nd February

    @Jenn: Currently there is no way to set the size of the Polaroid thumbnail on a per image basis. I can add this feature to a future version as I have thought about it before.

    However, in regards to the proportion of the photo, I had always assumed that when resizing the thumbnail that one would do so by keeping the same proportions of the frame.png image which is 245×301. Because the Polaroid-o-nizer script uses an image as the frame for the final image the proportions will always be in the ratio of 245×301 so if changed to something like 301×245 the image will look distorted.

    If you are trying to resize the thumbnail to something different than that ratio it will always look out of proportion. There really is not way to make the Polaroid-o-nizer script do what you are looking for it to do.

50. Posted by Egon on Thursday 10th April

    Hi,

    I just installed your plugin, and I’m using Wordpress 2.5.

    I keep getting “Source URL Incorrect of does not Exist”. But when I click on the picture I get the picture, so it must be correct.

    I am using Lightbox JS v2.04 to load the pictures when clicked on.

    The server has this GD stuff enabled as far as I can see

51. Posted by Egon on Thursday 10th April

    Oh, the code thing didn’t go to well.

    The PHPinfo tells me GD is bundled with all enabled and with freetype.

52. Posted by Matt on Friday 11th April

    @Egon: This plugin also requires that your web hosting provider allow you to make outbound HTTP connections. Some hosting providers do not allow this. If the plugin cannot download the image using PHP (server side execution) then it will return an error stating that the source url is incorrect or does not exist.

53. Posted by Egon on Friday 11th April

    Hi,

    Thank you for the reply.

    Is there a way to check this? I do not have SSH. Can I see that somewhere or is there a test site for this?

54. Posted by BlackyM on Sunday 20th April

    What do I need to change in order to have more then 8 capitons…can you make screenshot or somehting similar

55. Posted by Matt on Monday 21st April

    @BlackyM: It is not that simple. The reason that I have limited it to 8 characters is due to the font size. it would require multiple edits that I’d rather not go into in detail in a comment. If you are familiar with PHP and would like to know more information about this contact me via the contact link at the top of the page.

56. Posted by BlackyM on Wednesday 23rd April

    I’m not familiar with php :(

    But no problem, it’s still nice widget…Then this could be suggestion…little smaller font with more capitons available would be maybe better.

57. Posted by R. Richard Hobbs on Monday 28th April

    this is very kewl any idea if it could be implemented to pull in random photos from a flickr set? … in a sidebar widget… or best I get in there with a hammmer and monkey wrench and try to figure out how to do it?

    thx
    RH

58. Posted by Pablo DiCiacco on Sunday 27th July

    I really like this plugin. It still works with v2.6 which is great. The only conflict I have found so far as I test for photo-gallery-plugin conflicts is that it doesn’t like “Lightbox” or “Lightbox2″. Makes a real mess of things if either are activated.
    Do you think you will be updating this any time soon?
    Idea: photo caption
    Pablo
    gallery test site = http://tinyurl.com/6z5evw

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