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Author: sayontan

Photonic lets you use the WordPress gallery shortcode and ramps it up with a lot of added functionality. It adds support for several new parameters to enhance your galleries. It supports Flickr photos, Photosets, Galleries and Collections, along with Picasa photos and albums, SmugMug albums and images, and 500px photos.

Flickr Support

The following Flickr concepts are supported in Photonic:

• Photos
• PhotoSets
• Galleries
• Collections

For demos of Flickr support visit the Flickr page.

Picasa Support

The following Picasa concepts are supported in Photonic:

• Photos
• Albums

For demos of Picasa support visit the Picasa page.

SmugMug Support

The following SmugMug concepts are supported in Photonic:

• User Tree
• Photos
• Albums

For demos of SmugMug support visit the SmugMug page.

500px Support

Photos on 500px.com are supported in Photonic.

Enhanced Native Galleries

Your existing gallery insertions are left intact. However you can add a style parameter to it for special effects. The permitted values for style are:

1. strip-below: Displays a thumbnail strip with a running slideshow above.
2. strip-above: Displays a thumbnail strip with a running slideshow below.
3. no-strip: Displays running slideshow with no thumbnails.
4. launch: Doesn't display a running slideshow, but shows all thumbnails. On clicking a thumbnail a popup slideshow is shown.

You can also specify a parameter called fx to add special effects. This parameter can take any of these values: fade , scrollUp, scrollDown, scrollLeft, scrollRight, scrollHorz, scrollVert , slideX, slideY, turnUp, turnDown, turnLeft, turnRight, zoom , fadeZoom, blindX, blindY, blindZ, growX, growY, curtainX , curtainY, uncover, wipe. See the JQuery Cycle site for demos of the effects.

Parameters such as speed can control the slide transition speed, and thumbnail_size can control the size of the thumbnails.