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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='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.

Click here for a demo.

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. :-)

170 Response

  1. gravatar

    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

  2. gravatar

    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.

  3. gravatar

    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

  4. gravatar

    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!

  5. gravatar

    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

  6. gravatar

    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

  7. gravatar

    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

  8. gravatar

    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

  9. gravatar

    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!

  10. gravatar

    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.

  11. gravatar

    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.

  12. gravatar

    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

  13. gravatar

    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.

  14. gravatar

    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.

  15. gravatar

    Simon

    at 21:16 » Author comment «

    18 Aug 2010

    It’s now possible since version 1.1.4 (as written per mail)

  16. gravatar

    Simon

    at 21:17 » Author comment «

    18 Aug 2010

    Note to everyone: the reason was a PHP4 installation – the plugin requires PHP5

  17. gravatar

    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

  18. gravatar

    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…

  19. gravatar

    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

  20. gravatar

    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)

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