With picasaView you can easily view your picasaweb-albums in your WordPress blog. To achieve this, all you need to do is to insert a placeholder like:
[picasaview album='ALBUMNAME']
or
[picasaview album='ALBUMNAME' instantview='yes']
(to view all images instantly)
in your content where you want your album to appear. To view all your public albums just use:
[picasaview]
It’s now possible to view non-albums, but in this version only when viewing an album directly. It will not work when viewing all albums (not yet). Just use the tag like this (the token is generated by picasaweb, so you have to look there):
[picasaview album='ALBUMNAME' authkey='AUTHTOKEN']
The plugin supports localization, paging and its look can be easily customized by changing the external templates and the stylesheet which reside within the plugin directory in the subfolder templates. That means you could use Lightbox or any other image viewer by simply editing the html-templates to suit your needs, for example to work with Rupert Morris’ excellent Lightbox2 Plugin.
Through the backend settings you can additionally adjust the size of the used thumbnails and full size pictures as well as how much images should be shown on a page. Nearly each default setting on the settings page can be overwritten in the tag. So it’s possible to view different albums from different users in different sizes on your blog.
Please refer to the readme.txt for more detailed customization information.
Download picasaView (via wordpress.org)
(requires PHP5)
For a complete history of what has changed, please visit the history page.
If you found any bugs or have ideas for improvements or want to contribute a new language file please write a comment. 
Juan
at 20:00 via website
19 May 2010
Hi,
Are there any template tags to include in a template, or any quick tutorial on how to call the functions directly from a template, i would like to display random pictures on all pages.
Cheers
Mitch
at 18:10 via website
20 May 2010
Posting here this for others who may have this issue:
An update. The error with Featured Content Gallery (and Dynamic Content, as well) specifically happens when you check the js box in the PicasaView setting. However, if you uncheck that box, the photos do not load in a lightbox. Adding Lightbox2 does not solve the problem. The only plugin that I found that works with FCG and/or DCG and PicasaView (with the js box unchecked) and still allows for a lightbox effect is Shadowbox JS.
At least that’s where I am at now.
Thanks again Simon for your help here and via email. And thanks for considering the ability to base the Gallery on “tags” and have a child page option.
Darren
at 23:21 via website
27 May 2010
Hi,
Trying to activate the latest version of picasaView Version 1.1.3 on WP 2.9.2 however I am getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in F:\EasyPHP5.2.10\www\blog\wp-content\plugins\picasaview\picasaview.php on line 637
Regards
Darren
Sarah
at 07:44 via website
29 May 2010
I just downloaded the newest version and tried installing it on WP 2.9.2 and received the following error when I tried activating it:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homepages/27/d211397332/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/picasaview/picasaview.php on line 37
Any clue? I’d love to use this plugin. It looks great in the demo!
peter
at 11:07 via website
02 Jun 2010
hi,
I have the following problem: i use the simple [picasaView] tag to display all albums.
The plugin finds the albums, but displays the ‘loading’ icon all the time, and not thumbnails. They are “flashing in” sometimes for a second, but they disappear after.
Although the images are available if a click the “loading” icons, they open in the lightbox2 plugin.
br,
Peter
peter
at 09:39 via website
03 Jun 2010
forget my previous post, it is resolved. The plugin was in conflict with another one (wp events calendar). That one also uses [...], for tags, and tried to parse the [picasaView] tag.
br,
Peter
مدونة رسين
at 23:49 via website
04 Jun 2010
- How to insert the code [picasaView]in a file.php.
- Please support the pop windoos.
thanks
Aaron Sternke
at 20:36 via website
08 Jul 2010
Hi there! Awesome plugin. Works great on one of my sites (http://www.willamettechurch.com) but I am getting a “fatal error” when trying to install it on another (http://www.willamettestudents.com/hs). Here’s the error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c03/h01/mnt/48858/domains/willamettestudents.com/html/hs/wp-content/plugins/picasaview/picasaview.php on line 37
Any ideas?
Aaron Sternke
Sarah
at 21:01 via website
16 Jul 2010
Hey, I am having trouble getting the instantView tag to work. My tag looks like this:
[picasaView album id='Agriculture' instantView='yes']
It works without the instantView tag, but when I add that, I get this error:
picasaView plugin: Could not load data from picasaweb.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Nash
at 14:46 via website
28 Jul 2010
Hi,
i have the same problem as most posters above but didn’t read any solution to it. About the one column to 2 or 3 columns. There is no option in the backend to change this. how can i do this?
many thanks.
Simon
at 18:03 » Author comment «
28 Jul 2010
Basically this is a question of template design and css. You can copy the picasaView-templates from the plugin directory to your theme-directory and edit/style them as you like (see the readme.txt) – this should give you the opportunity to make multi-column layouts.
rvq
at 12:56 via website
01 Aug 2010
I’ve try to activate in wordpress 3.0.1 but i get this error
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /WWWROOT/61566/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/picasaview/picasaview.php on line 37
johannes
at 18:52 via website
05 Aug 2010
I get the same error as Darren (27th may) when trying to activate the plugin. I use WP 3.0 and php5.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\picasaview\picasaview.php on line 637
Any news on this? The demo looks great.
Andrew
at 17:45 via website
08 Aug 2010
Is there a way to display my unlisted albums? In PicasaWeb it shows an authorization key in the URL, but not sure if there’s a way to enter that in the plugin?
Demo looks great, I’d love to get this working.
Simon
at 21:16 » Author comment «
18 Aug 2010
It’s now possible since version 1.1.4 (as written per mail)
Simon
at 21:17 » Author comment «
18 Aug 2010
Note to everyone: the reason was a PHP4 installation – the plugin requires PHP5
matt
at 12:06 via website
21 Aug 2010
Hi there
Love this plugin, however could you make a VITAL change.
On this page, it still says ‘instantView’ however it should say instantView=’yes’
Will help the newbies, who read this instructional text, rather than the txt
Simon
at 18:59 » Author comment «
22 Aug 2010
Hi matt, thanks for the hint, I corrected this mistake! I guess I never had noticed this…
ixray
at 10:47 via website
29 Aug 2010
hi, ich bekomme den fehler
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in M:\TEMP\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\picasaview\picasaview.php on line 641
bei der aktivierung des plugins.
ich verwendet xampp 1.7.3, PHP 5.3.1, wordpress 3.0.1 und picasaView 1.1.4.
grüße
ixray
Daniël Bos
at 09:57 via website
30 Aug 2010
There is a serious problem with the Javascript view, in that the fall-back behaviour isn’t correct. This is important because Search Engines don’t use Javascript.
The problem is that the Previous and Next URL is always generated, even when there is no previous or next content. This results in an infinitely deep link scheme. (You can always continue to press next of previous, ad infinum) Search Engines DON’T like this (especially if you don’t have a canonical URL, because you are basically creating infinite copies of your content)