I am very close to releasing the new Phanfare Widget for WordPress. My request for subversion space has been submitted to WordPress. This is based on the Photo Sidebar widget, with various improvements.
- Uses SimplePie for parsing, rather than Magpie (allows for faster, easier parsing, with caching of feeds)
- Improved the random selection algorithm to speed up display. Should be faster with larger RSS feeds
- The feeds are verified during the widget configuration.
- Clicking on thumbnail will: (do nothing, show larger image, bring up a lightbox slideshow)
- The size of the thumbnail image can be specified
- When multiple resolutions are available in the feed, the closest size is used to avoid excessive browser scaling.
- Currently works with Phanfare, PicasaWeb, SmugMug, and Flickr
