I’ve been having a problem with my Flickr Photo Album plugin–when selecting photos with the plugin to appear in a post it seems some are replaced with a “This Photo is Currently Unavailable” error image.  This would happen even though the photos are available.

After much research I learned that this error happens when you update a photo because Flickr plays some tricks with its urls making the plugin think that the photo isn’t there, even though it is.

Its nice to have a diagnosis, but what’s the treatment?  Well, Google wasn’t much help.  But, stumbling around the plug I did manage to find a way to fix the problem.

So, after you have updated a photo flickr…

View your full photo album in Wordpress.  You can do this either by

• going to http://your_blog_root_url/photo-album/

Or

• Open your Wordpress admin
• Select “Settings”
• Select “Photo Album”
• Click the link /photo-album/ next to the “Photo Album Syndication” label

Then all you need to do is click the “Refresh Photos” button.  But, that will only refresh the photos displayed on that screen.  Some of your albums might have more screens.  If so there will be a  “Next Page” link.  Click it, and click the “Refresh Photos” button again.

Repeat till all those error images are gone.

I’m sure there’s a better, faster way to do it, but this is the only way I’ve been able to figure out

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