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. 
Bryan
at 09:24 via website
19 Jul 2008
Simon,
The plugin is great! But also, I have to thank you for taking the time to make sure ALL of my questions were answered.
I really appreciate the time and the plugin.
Thanks
Klaus
at 22:47 via website
19 Jul 2008
Hi Simon,
love the plugin! I just scanned the comments so probably someone already mentioned this: it would be great having the option to directly display the contents of an album without having to click the front cover. Also: there’s a pretty huge step in thumbnail sizes between 144px and 72px. having a size in between (100px?) would be fantastic!
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Simon
at 10:30 » Author comment «
21 Jul 2008
Hi Klaus,
thanks for your feedback – I’m glad you like it. This is a good idea, I’ll put it on the ToDo-List. The available thumbnail sizes are all sizes supported by the picasaweb-API, so unfortunately we all have to choose one of the values they provide for the thumbnails
MrPete
at 22:12 via website
21 Jul 2008
Simon, here’s a link to a universally compatible way of handling the options ‘nonce’… looks like they may fix the underlying problem soon: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7277
Holroyd
at 01:19 via website
22 Jul 2008
Hi Simon,
Love your plugin – but -
It works fine to bring up ALL my albums [picasaView] – but [picasaView album='MyAlbum'] returns error “MyAlbum does not exist.”
Can you help?
Simon
at 09:48 » Author comment «
22 Jul 2008
@MrPete: thanks! I’ll take a look. the nonce-thing is really odd!
@Holroyd: this message really only appears when there is no album with the specified name. Are you sure you spelled it correctly? The name is case-sensitive. If this doesn’t work, please send me an email with your picasaweb-user and the album-name you specified. I’ll then take a look what’s the problem is.
Jeff
at 23:11 via website
01 Aug 2008
Simon,
I am having the same problem as Holroyd;
It works fine to bring up ALL my albums [picasaView] – but [picasaView album='MyAlbum'] returns error “MyAlbum does not exist.”
I tried each of the three options;
CURL (supported on this server)
file_get_contents() (supported on this server)
fsockopen() (supported on this server)
I tried adding an ending forward slash on my server-url ‘http://picasaweb.google.com/
Were you able to figure out what the problem was for Holroyd?
Simon
at 09:46 » Author comment «
02 Aug 2008
Hey Jeff,
Holroyd hat just a configuration error. Besure you specify exactly the same name as it has in your picasaweb-library. For example, if you made an album named “My wedding photos” you have to use [picasaView album='My wedding photos'] and not the shortened name picasaWeb generates. If this doesn’t help, please send me a screenshot of your admin-settings and I’ll take a look.
Pepawo
at 12:35 via website
02 Aug 2008
Hello, version 0.7 breaks my theme (top half of screen is black). Return to previous one is OK.
Simon
at 12:41 » Author comment «
02 Aug 2008
Hi,
strange.. if you customized the templates / stylesheet, be sure to start from scratch with the default ones again as some things have changed here (and the custom templates must reside with the template dir now, see readme.txt). If this doesn’t help, is it possible you can tell me the theme you used? Maybe then I can find out what’s the problem is.
ジェイソン (Jason)
at 02:13 via website
04 Aug 2008
I just installed 0.7 on my server, and it works beautifully. Thanks for making this plugin available! It’s going to save my quite a bit of hassle with my stupid webhost and their CPU-load restrictions.
Hansi
at 20:24 via website
09 Aug 2008
Hallo Simon,
erstmal Kompliment für das schöne Plugin – ich würde es echt lieben, wenn ich es zum laufen kriegen würde
Lokal geht’s, online bekomme ich die Fehlermeldung:
‘picasaView plugin: oops, this plugin requires simplexml_load_string() coming with PHP5. I’m sorry – you won’t be able to use it
`
PicasaView-Einstellungen bringt folgende Meldung:
Schlechte Nachrichten: picasaView benötigt mindestens PHP5. Verfügbar ist lediglich4.4.8
Aber php_info() auf dem Server bringt mir version 5.2.6 (schick dir gerne mal den Link wenn’s weiterhilft…). Wäre wirklich super, wenn du ne Idee hättest – besten Dank im Voraus!!!
Gruß,
Hansi
fryevhen
at 09:31 via website
10 Aug 2008
Greetings from Ukraine! Great plugin! Thnxs!:)
autworld
at 00:07 via website
11 Aug 2008
great plugin, thanks!
Simon
at 09:37 » Author comment «
11 Aug 2008
Thanks guys!
@Hansi:
irgendwie hört sich das erstmal so an, als ob dein PHP-Info unter einer anderen Umgebung als WordPress läuft. Kann es evtl sein, dass bei deinem Provider unterschiedliche Versionen möglich sind, z.B. jenachdem wie die Dateien enden? Hast du die phpinfo im gleichen Verzeichnis wie deine WordPress-Installation liegen? Schick mir doch bitte mal den Link zur PHPinfo (und wenn möglich zu deinem Blog, sofern er nicht privat ist), dann schau ich mal, ob ich was rausfinden kann.
marYn
at 00:38 via website
18 Aug 2008
Very nice plugin. Is it possible to show album thumbnails directly in my wordpress post? Currently there is only album link and when clicked my desired thumbnails appears. But I’d like to have them directly in the post. Please help.
Danke!!
JoaoVr
at 12:52 via website
26 Aug 2008
Hi,
Is there any way to center [picasaView]?
[picasaView] dont work for me.
Thank You
Simon
at 14:11 » Author comment «
26 Aug 2008
Hi JoaoVr,
you can customize the picasaView-templates (see readme.txt for instructions), which gives you the possibility to edit the html and css just as you wish.If you’re not firm with html and css send me an email.
What do you mean with “[picasView] don’t work for me”? Doesn’t it work at all? Or do you get an error message?
JoaoVr
at 14:24 via website
26 Aug 2008
Hi,
But wordpress removed the code.
I typed “p align center [picasaView] p” dont work for me
Can you explain the minimum changes to align center the album? ty
Simon
at 14:58 » Author comment «
26 Aug 2008
I sent you a mail with the instructions.
JoaoVr
at 15:18 via website
26 Aug 2008
Thank you for all your help. When I update the plugin do I need to change again?
Simon
at 15:25 » Author comment «
26 Aug 2008
You’re welcome. No, they won’t be overwritten on an update, so you don’t have to change them again.
alphageek
at 15:13 via website
02 Sep 2008
Hallo,
das plugin läuft, ich bekomme allerdings das Zusammenspiel mit LightBox nicht hin. Die Bilder werden so geöffnet, als wäre LightBox nicht installiert. Woran könnte das denn liegen?
freeflyair
at 22:44 via website
29 Sep 2008
Really cool plugin!
I was looking for an easy way to display photos hosted on picasa, and you’ve done it…
I can’t wait for the possibility to directly display the gallery without the entry image.
When are you planning to release the next version?
Congratulations, and thanks again…
Christian
at 19:05 via website
09 Nov 2008
Moin, die Demo sieht ja sehr gut aus, leider funktioniert bei mir das ein oder andere nicht. Die Bilder werden angezeigt, soweit läuft’s. Allerdings funktioniert weder das Javascript-Blättern (es blättert einfach weiterhin per PHP) noch Lightbox. Ich verwende Lightbox2 von http://www.m3nt0r.de/blog/lightbox-wordpress-plugin/ , aber erst hat Lightbox das Bild nicht geladen und jetzt geht es gar nicht mehr auf. Dafür lande ich bei Google auf einer Fehlerseite, die mir solange meldet, die Datei existiere nicht, bis ich die exakt gleiche URL von Hand aufrufe – sieht nach einer Sperre aus, so dass ich keine Fotos verlinken darf. Allerdings funktioniert es auch aus dem Blog heraus, _nachdem_ ich das Bild einmal von Hand aufgerufen habe. oO
Wenn es helfen würde, würde ich auch das von Dir empfohlene Lightbox-Plugin benutzen, das tut auch was ich haben will, allerdings verstehe ich die Installation nicht… in welche Datei soll ich diesen Header einfügen? Und ist es richtig, dass das Plugin nicht bei den Plugins erscheint?
Viele Fragen… hoffe Du kannst mir helfen. Gerne auch per Mail.
Viele Grüße,
Christian
freeflyair
at 02:07 via website
04 Dec 2008
Hi Simon,
For some reason, the plugin doesn’t work anymore. This is the message displayed on my website, any idea?
Warning: fsockopen() has been disabled for security reasons in /mnt/102/sdb/9/a/rohana/wp-content/plugins/picasaview/picasaview.php on line 442
Thanks for your help…
Thomas J Powell
at 23:04 via website
21 Dec 2008
Are there plans to update this plugin for WP 2.7? I really like using it but it does not seem to work with 2.7.
Simon
at 00:46 » Author comment «
22 Dec 2008
@Thomas: Yes, I’m planning to release an update within this year, so that picasaView works with WordPress again.
Martin
at 07:54 via website
07 Jan 2009
There appears to be a faulty analysis of the system configuration: I am under php v 5.2.8 (Bluehost) and your plugin activation indicates: “Bad news: You need PHP5 to run this plugin, sorry. You have installed PHP 4.4.9″ Please advise
Thanks
Simon
at 11:56 » Author comment «
09 Jan 2009
Just for the sake of completeness: Martin’s blog did indeed run on PHP4.
Martin
at 18:49 via website
09 Jan 2009
Thanks Simon,
I have the plugin working well now, after activation of php5 for my WP 2.7 site. I am now trying your customise options. First remark, you say in your readme.txt to copy all template files into a ‘picasaview’ folder in the WP themes directory. First I don’t understand why this place (non standard WP practice, I think would be better in wp-contents) and secondly when editing these files, the changes are NOT apparent. Is the plugin using the templates in picasaview plugin folder? Second I have Lighbox2 activated, I see the rel=”lightbox” instruction in the themes/templates files but no lightbox display? Any suggestions?
dSyre
at 22:12 via website
10 Feb 2009
Hi,
I love your plugin and it has worked perfectly. Do you have any idea, why all of a sudden it gives a “could not load data from picasaweb” error? Nothing was changed in the settings and the connection settings haven’t changed… ;-(
Thanks for your reply in advance!
d’Syre
Victoria
at 00:43 via website
14 Feb 2009
Hi Simon!
Love, love, love the plugin! Fantastic job! Having the same problem as d’Syre though – just this week I’ve started seeing the error “could not load data from picasaweb” all over my page. The only thing that I know has changed was the recent WP update. Any suggestions on fixing it?
Thanks so much for a great feature!
-Victoria
Simon
at 19:04 » Author comment «
17 Feb 2009
Hi Victoria and everyone else – the problem was a temporary connection error with the picasaweb site at google. I think they fixed this now and the plugin should work again (at least just waiting did solve this for d’Syre). If not, just drop me a message.
David
at 20:20 via website
23 Feb 2009
I noticed you are using lightbox 2. How are you getting lightbox to display your total number of pictures? (ie: 3 of 20) I can only get light box to display the current 9 pictures of the picasa album. I’d like to be able to flip through them all; I have 121.
Simon
at 23:15 » Author comment «
01 Mar 2009
it should be enough when you choose the option “use JavaScript for paging” in the picasaView-options (or optionally set “Images per page” to “0″ when you don’t want paging). This will echo all links to the images in the gallery on the page, but only showing the amount of images at once which you set in the “images per page” option.
Greg
at 16:08 via website
12 Mar 2009
Hey Simon, great plugin. I’m trying to extend the plugin a bit for my site but cannot quite figure out the logic. What I’m trying to do is make another option of albumlist for the [picasaView] tag so that it will list the contents of the album in a post (as if you clicked the album from the album option) instead of the first thumbnail and a link to the rest.
I cannot seem to figure out where it decides which option has been passed to it and add another.
Thank you for the great plugin!
Pmphone
at 19:48 via website
13 Mar 2009
all is ok now Thanks
Ashish
at 05:53 via website
20 Mar 2009
Thanks for the excellent plugin… Will you support displaying the Captions created in Picassa as well? Also, I want my albums to remain private on the Picassa web, but I want to display them in my blog so I really need you to add private album support.
Thanks again.
Simon
at 11:12 » Author comment «
20 Mar 2009
Hey everybody, I will answer your questions soon – but currently I have problems with my internet connection at home
Maryloo
at 01:20 via website
22 Mar 2009
Hi,
Thanks for this great plugin!
I have a little trouble trying to customized the apperance of the gallery.
In safari and Firefox it look perfect, but then in explorer I get this blue (default link color) stroke around each thumbnails, which is horrible. I would like to have a white stroke or nothing, but not blue.
I’m usally good in CSS but after playing around in it for more than 3 hours I just can’t figure it out.
I’ve copied the template folder in my wp-content/theme folder like you’ve said and it still don’t work. I’ve been able to make many other changes without any trouble. I must don’t have the right CSS code to tell explorer to use my code instead of is default blue stroke link.
Please help…
Thanks
Chris
at 23:55 via website
08 May 2009
Hi,
ich hab gerade WordPress neu aufgesetzt und seit dem nicht nur das Problem, dass ich die Bilder nicht in 1024, sondern nur bis max 800px Größe anzeigen lassen kann (darüber hatten wir ja schonmal geschrieben), obendrein geht jetzt auch noch das Javascript-Blättern nicht mehr. Gibt’s da bekannte Probleme, die dazu führen? Ich verwende WP 2.7.1 DE-Edition…
Viele Grüße,
Christian
basanta
at 15:38 via website
27 Jul 2009
Moin,
danke erstmal für das brauchbarste Picasa-Plugin, das ich bisher finden konnte.
Einbindung der Alben und Darstellung der Galerien funktioniert einwandfrei, aber beim Anklicken eines einzelnen Bildes kommt man auf eine Fehlerseite des Picasa-Servers (“Not Found”). Ruft man die Seite aber durch einfaches Enter-Drücken in der Adressleiste erneut auf, so erscheint das gewünschte Bild. Ist dies einmal geschehen, so lässt sich das Bild nun auch direkt aus der Galerie aufrufen.
Irgendeine Ahnung, woran das liegen kann?
Ich verwende WP 2.8.2.
Dank und Gruß,
basanta
Simon
at 23:03 » Author comment «
27 Jul 2009
Hi, ja, das Problem ist bekannt und liegt an der Größe der Bilder (wird vermutlich bei dir jetzt der gleiche Grund sein, nehme ich an). Bei picasaView kann man leider seit ein paar Monaten die großen Größen (ich glaube ab 800 Pixel) nicht mehr auf anderen Seiten verlinken. Deswegen funktioniert das Direkt-Aufrufen im Fenster, aber nicht mehr das direkte Verlinken auf der eigenen Seite (wenn man es dann z.B. mit Lightbox anzeigt). Das ist leider eine Limitation von picasaweb, die man nicht umgehen kann.
In der nächsten Version wird darauf dann zumindest im Adminpanel hingewiesen, umgehen kann man es leider nicht, solange Google das verhindert.
John
at 21:15 via website
15 Aug 2009
Hey Simon,
Love your plugin. I literally went through over 15 plugins before I found yours and discovered how simple and effective it was.
My only question is this: How do i make my paging work like yours in the demo? I’m not sure if you’re using ajax or javascript or what, but i would LOVE to be able to flip through the paging without a page reload every time.
Thank you, and keep up the amazing work!
Alex
at 16:43 via website
18 Aug 2009
Hallo!
Zuerstmal: tolle Arbeit! Ich hab tonnenweise Picasa-Plugins für WP getestet, bevor ich bei deinem hängen geblieben bin.
Hab das Plugin bei mir sofort eingebaut, funktioniert aber leider nicht 100%ig. Wenn ich nur [picasaView] verwende, dann läuft es problemlos, ich bekomm meine Alben angezeigt. Wenn ich aber einen Albumnamen spezifiziere (z.B. [picasaView album='090816 - Falkensteig']) dann bekomm ich nur die Fehlermeldung, dass das Album nicht existiert. Hab das Album auch schon umbenannt und ein anderes Album angegeben, hat leider auch nicht geholfen… vielleicht hast du ja eine Idee, was schief läuft…
Danke schonmal & Grüße,
Alex
Simon
at 20:09 » Author comment «
25 Aug 2009
danke, freut mich, dass es dir gefällt
Demnächst gibt’s auch ne neue Version, bei der man die Bilder dann direkt im Beitrag ohne Umweg anzeigen kann.
Bei deinem Problem liegt’s vermutlich daran, dass du den falschen Namen für das Album verwendest. Wenn du dein Album aufrufst, hast du ja einen Link wie z.B. “http://picasaweb.google.com/simon.sattes/NurnbergDieBurg”, der dann in der Adressleiste steht. Das Album heißt eigentlich “Nürnberg, die Burg”, aber dieser Titel funktioniert nicht.D a musst du stattdessen dann diesen hinteren Teil nehmen, also in diesem Fall “NurnbergDieBurg”: [picasaView album='NurnbergDieBurg']. Picasaweb verkürzt intern die Namen für die Adressen, und diesen Namen muss man dann hernehmen.
Raffe Bergwall
at 11:48 via website
13 Sep 2009
Please help me.
I have no problems with getting [picasaView] to work, it shows all the albums nice and smooth, but [picasaView album='analbumnameonmypicasaweb'] doesn’t work!
I get the error message “picasaView plugin: the album analbumnameonmypicasaweb does not exist.”
I’ve tried with and without the “#” that comes when you enter a specific album on Picasa Web. And I tried with about 10 albums now, it stil doesn’t work.
WP 2.8.4
/Raffe Bergwall
Stefan
at 13:39 via website
13 Oct 2009
Hi,
I tried to setup the plugin. Entered the google addres .nl and .com
my id: stefsegers
left the rest untouched.
Then I gone to my page and added [picasaView]
After that I get the same error as anybody else
picasaView plugin: Could not load data from picasaweb.
I checked with php info and yes it supports everything it needs to
What can I do about it?
Stef
Simon
at 14:05 » Author comment «
13 Oct 2009
can you please try the following: tick the checkbox “show debug output” in the picasaview-options page in the admin area, this should give more infos why the plugin failed. If this doesn’t help, please send me this message and if possible a screenshot of your options-page in the admin-backend – then I can take a closer look.