Mike Toppa

Shashin does not currently work with featured images. Shashin shows images that are on Google+, Youtube, etc – it does not store them locally. Featured images need to be stored locally. I have a to-do item to make Shashin work with featured images (by “sideloading” them). I could probably make it work with random images, but it would mean downloading a new random image each time, which is probably not a good idea for performance reasons.

Your photo’s takenTimstamp value is -2147483648, which converts to Fri, 13 Dec 1901. I’ve assigned takenTimestamp to be an “unsigned int” in the database, which means it’s not expecting negative numbers. This is also the first time I’ve heard of this problem, but it probably should handle negative values (in case someone scans a really old photo and sets the EXIF date, which may be what’s happening here).

..So to fix this in your code, change lines 96-98 in shashin/lib/ShashinPhoto.php from this:

'db' => array(
    'type' => 'int unsigned',
    'not_null' => true),

to this:

'db' => array(
    'type' => 'bigint'),

Then deactivate and reactivate Shashin (I forgot to mention that step in my previous response). That should trigger an update to Shashin’s photo table in the database. Please let me know if it works for you.

I’ll make this same revision in the next version.

Thanks for the suggestion. A fundamental aspect to Shashin’s design is not having to store the photos locally, so this isn’t a practical thing to change.

Sorry for the delay. The problem is that your theme (or one of your plugins) is loading an older version of jQuery from http://ajax.googleapis.com instead of using the more recent version that’s included in WordPress – this is not considered good practice. Shashin requires jQuery 1.7 or higher.

easton7000, I don’t know the answer offhand, but js and/or css files not being loaded sounds like a theme issue.

jhaarsma, if you have a current version of WP then you should have a compatible version. But there are themes and plugins that can force WP to load a different version.

You have your Shashin shortcode inside a div with the class “widget-area” and your theme’s stylesheet has set its width to 220px, so the Shashin thumbnails are wrapping to stay within that width. The old version of Shashin was probably breaking the width of that div (which it should not have). So you’re seeing this now that I’ve made improvements to how Shashin manages its thumbnail layout.

Shashin uses the WordPress WP_Http library to read the Picasa RSS feed. This error indicates your hosting provider is not allowing outgoing requests. See the suggested solutions for the same error with the Jetpack plugin here