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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]

(to view all images instantly)

in your content where you want your album to appear. To view all your public albums just use:

[picasaView]

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.

Click here for a demo.

Please refer to the readme.txt for more detailed customization information.

Current version: 1.1.2
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. :-)

131 Response

  1. gravatar

    David

    at 05:26 via website

    18 Oct 2009

    I get the following error when trying to install your plugin:

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /var/www/vhosts/hpcyouth.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/picasaview/picasaview.php on line 37

    Any ideas?

  2. gravatar

    Simon

    at 09:45 » Author comment «

    19 Oct 2009

    Is your WordPress installation running on PHP5? If not, the plugin won’t work. If you are running PHP5 then try re-installing it, maybe something went wrong during the installation process.

  3. gravatar

    David

    at 06:42 via website

    20 Oct 2009

    yes it is running PHP5. I have the latest version of WP and it gave me the warning that this plug in hadnt been tested on it yet. Could that be the problem?

  4. gravatar

    basanta

    at 22:04 via website

    23 Oct 2009

    Hey!

    Ich habe gerade auf WP 2.8.5 sowie PicasaView 1.01 upgedatet, und habe nun ein unerwünschtes Verhalten: Wenn ich auf einer Seite mehrere Alben habe und nun eines davon anzeigen lasse, erscheint dieses Album in Vollansicht an der Stelle ALLER Alben auf der Ursprungsseite, d.h. mehrfach untereinander.
    Ich meine, dieses Verhalten sei neu!

    Dank & Gruß,
    Basanta

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    Anthony

    at 18:32 via website

    30 Oct 2009

    Hi, I’m liking your plugin so far, good job! Unfortunately, I can’t seem to call the shortcode from within wordpress with “do_shortcode(‘[picasaView]‘)”. Any help or information would be really appreciated, and thanks for your time.

    Tony

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    kjappert

    at 06:06 via website

    07 Nov 2009

    Hi,

    I am using PicasaView to place al my picasa images on my website. It’s a beautiful solution. The only thing i really miss is the possibility to show the dates of albums and/or photos. I have checked and the date is shown in the rss feed.

    Can this be fixed and how. Is there a simple hack?

    Thanks

  7. gravatar

    S_Mike

    at 20:26 via website

    21 Nov 2009

    Hi,

    I want to translate your plugin to polish, but I don’t have PO file. Where can I get it?

  8. gravatar

    Paolo

    at 04:24 via website

    03 Dec 2009

    Hi,

    The galleries work fine but I can’t get it to work with lightbox2/slimbox. The images just get viewed. It also breaks the slimbox/lightbox of my other pages when activated (if it’s not on, lightbox works fine). I’m using the wordpress plugins version of lightbox2/slimbox, by the way. Any help?

    Thanks!

  9. gravatar

    Paolo

    at 04:36 via website

    03 Dec 2009

    never mind, I got it to work by toggling all plugins. Weird. Thanks a mil!

  10. gravatar

    Simon

    at 10:26 » Author comment «

    03 Dec 2009

    Strange.. glad it works now though :-/

  11. gravatar

    Jerome

    at 13:19 via website

    14 Dec 2009

    This plugin is really nice but too bad it does not handle private albums. An update is planned ?

  12. gravatar

    Mac

    at 02:36 via website

    16 Dec 2009

    Nice plugin, it works well also with Lightbox but I’m not able to display thumbnails in columns (like in your demo), only one col it’s working, I need 2 or 3.
    Where I must change something?
    TIA

  13. gravatar

    Mac

    at 15:04 via website

    16 Dec 2009

    Update: when the plugin is used in page, works in one column, when in articles, works correctly in multiple columns.
    I need to use pages :( some ideas?

  14. gravatar

    Gantoo

    at 01:34 via website

    26 Dec 2009

    Hi,

    i’m new with Wordpress, and looking for a clear and beautiful plugin to embed my picasa galleries.

    Yours look quite perfect…

    Except that, once installed on my local mamp server ( mac, with apache and php 5 ), i can’t get the same result as your demo.

    The gallery is loading, and i have the images. But they all appears in only 1 column. And a clic on image doesn’t display the clean pop-up. It just opens a new ugly white page with the image.

    I guess this is an additional plugin, or something i didn’t activated.

    ( sorry for my english).

    One again, quite usefull and simple plugin

    Thanks.

  15. gravatar

    Gantoo

    at 03:24 via website

    26 Dec 2009

    Hi Again. It’s now ok for the classy popup. Just installed LightBox2.

    But i still got all images in only 1 column. And the ‘Next’ link on the main article page isn’t viewable entirely ( the one used to navigate in gallery where there is moto images then the max allowed per page). Seems like the detailed Gallery is too wide.

    I’m currently using the LightWord theme.

  16. gravatar

    Gantoo

    at 03:27 via website

    26 Dec 2009

    Damn, it’s late, and it seems like my eye are no more facing their holes.

    i meant : “the one used to navigate in the gallery when there is more image than the max allowed per page”.

    Sorry… time to sleep :) . ( 3 o’clock)

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    basanta

    at 17:26 via website

    26 Dec 2009

    Hi!

    The instantView is giving me trouble: if I just type instantView nothing happens but when I enter instantView=’yes’ as it says in the readme, I get a bad request from Google.

    Any idea?

  18. gravatar

    Bryan G.

    at 20:02 via website

    26 Dec 2009

    Hi,

    Love the plugin, but I’m having trouble with InstantView. For some reason it’s simply not doing anything. Someone else on here mentioned the option is actually InstantView=’yes’, but that’s not working either. Any info?

    thanks
    Bryan

  19. gravatar

    Ronnell

    at 23:50 via website

    30 Dec 2009

    Hi,

    Great plugin — I especially like the way the demo is styled. Is that style available for download by chance?

  20. gravatar

    Simon

    at 13:28 » Author comment «

    31 Dec 2009

    (all answered by e-mail)

  21. gravatar

    Jerome

    at 11:12 via website

    19 Jan 2010

    Hello,

    I have a problem with the plugin since yesterday evening.
    I get the following error: “picasaView plugin: Could not load data from picasaweb”
    I have nothing changed on http://picasaweb.google.fr/ and I have the right settings in the plugin options in the dashboard of Wordpress. I tried to deactivate and activate the plugin in WP but still the same error message.
    Have an idea you could suggest?
    Thank you for your help.

    WP Version: 2.8.6
    PicasaView Version: 1.1.1

  22. gravatar

    ukasiu

    at 21:26 via website

    21 Jan 2010

    Feature request: optional link to the album at picasaweb.google.com

  23. gravatar

    Mac

    at 01:09 via website

    26 Jan 2010

    As Simon said, there was a “” tag in the source code of the page and this cause view on one column.
    I don’t know how that tag was there, anyway deleted it from html source, all works perfectly, now.
    I use last version of both WP and PicasaView.
    Thanks Simon for your great support and my wishes for your marriage :)
    Mac

  24. gravatar

    Keichi

    at 01:41 via website

    26 Jan 2010

    I have the same Problem with the “one columm” view.. I just can’t find the error in the source oO

    Oh and btw.. You should really implant some wrapping, on the Album view. Cuz it sucks if you cant read the Description because its halfway under the Sidebar ;)

  25. gravatar

    Simon

    at 20:43 » Author comment «

    28 Jan 2010

    Keichi, well it heavily depends on the site layout, that’s why I made it template based so it can be fully customized. What layout do you use?

  26. gravatar

    Núria

    at 15:58 via website

    30 Jan 2010

    Hi, great job Simon!
    But i have exactly the same problem that Basanta, so is:
    “The instantView is giving me trouble: if I just type instantView nothing happens but when I enter instantView=’yes’ as it says in the readme, I get a bad request from Google.”

    Do you know how to resolve this issue?
    Thanks in advance!

    Núria

  27. gravatar

    Simon

    at 10:48 » Author comment «

    31 Jan 2010

    Strange, can you tell me how you specified the picasaview-tag? (I wrote you an email)

  28. gravatar

    Núria

    at 11:51 via website

    01 Feb 2010

    Thanks Simon, as you say in the email you wrote me, the solution is in the name of the album, I put the whole name of the album (this without the instantwiew option runs correctly) but its better and necessary “to use the shortened name that picasa generates for your album, not the original one. You can see it when click on an album on picasaweb and look at the url,”
    So is:
    [picasaView album="NameOfTheAlbum" instantView='yes']
    instead of:
    [picasaView album="Name Of The Album" instantView='yes']

    Thanks!

    Núria

    Núria

  29. gravatar

    Pablo Fernando Sanchez

    at 01:59 via website

    02 Feb 2010

    Simon:

    I’ll be glad to contribute with a Spanish language file. Please, tell me what to do.

    Bests,

    Pablo

  30. gravatar

    Simon

    at 11:11 » Author comment «

    02 Feb 2010

    Hi Pablo,

    thanks a lot for your offer – but I just got a Catalan and Spanish translation yesterday, so it’s not necessary any more :-)

    But thank you very much!

    Cheers,
    Simon

  31. gravatar

    BUSLAIN

    at 18:44 via website

    03 Feb 2010

    Hello,
    I don’t understand what’s is the Picasa User Id for this application. I search this User Id ? Where can I find the user id ? Thank uou. Sincerely,
    JFB

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