...Grid gives you the most flexibility so you can truly customize it however you like. Caption data source WordPress media library fields (metadata) for each area. WordPress posts title, excerpt, taxonomy, date, time, author. 3rd party source's data: Facebook, Flickr, RSS. NextGEN gallery's data including title, description, tags. Looks Text and background color with opacity. Gradient background or background that...
...achieved by a JS plugin, Pixastic. When Jetpack plugin's Photon module (a CDN) is enabled, the special effects are turned off. It is due a JavaScript security policy for images served from another domain. In most cases, special effects can show normally as thumbnails are hosted on your domain even for Facebook and Flickr. How do the settings look like?...
I had to choose one... Customizability! Wow, this does everything. Support is the best I have ever, ever encountered on the web. Honestly. The developer is fantastic. You have made my website so flexible with this plugin being able to use Flickr for fast sharp images in my photography without having to upload to WordPress which is a horrible, horrible...
...No alternative for this kind of use After looking at plenty of other solutions, it seems that there is no proper alternative besides Jetpack Photon. Thumbnail creation for JIG needs to fulfill this needs: Works with external images from various sources, such as Facebook, Flickr, RSS feeds (YouTube, Vimeo, 500px, DeviantArt and so on). The retina ready feature needs thumbnails...
...could mean the end of an era. It's like how Twitter changed their mind about their API some time ago, giving custom Twitter widgets a very hard time. Yet many themes still use those today. So maybe their approval is as easy to get as applying for a Flickr API key? Or more serious like Facebook's apps? Read more about...