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. 
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?
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.
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?
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
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
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
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?
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!
Paolo
at 04:36 via website
03 Dec 2009
never mind, I got it to work by toggling all plugins. Weird. Thanks a mil!
Simon
at 10:26 » Author comment «
03 Dec 2009
Strange.. glad it works now though :-/
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 ?
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
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.
some ideas?
I need to use pages
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.
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.
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)
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?
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
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?
Simon
at 13:28 » Author comment «
31 Dec 2009
(all answered by e-mail)
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
ukasiu
at 21:26 via website
21 Jan 2010
Feature request: optional link to the album at picasaweb.google.com
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
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
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?
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Tim P
at 17:06 via website
15 Feb 2010
First, Buslain: the userid is the id you have a Picasa, you can find it in the link to your albums, in the URL is your usename.
MY QUESTION: why can’t i search the text on my page from this album overview ? http://rcheli.dk/pictures2/ it would be very nice if i could search for the album texst on the album overview !!! i don’t get why it is not working ??
Tim P
at 17:07 via website
15 Feb 2010
SEO is what i was referring to
Simon
at 13:47 » Author comment «
16 Feb 2010
I guess it’s because the content gets rendered at runtime. When you open a page with the albums on it the images and the text is fetched from google, it’s not saved within WordPress somewhere. I’ll take it on the list for the next update. Maybe you can get it working with a Cache-Plugin for WordPress if you can’t wait (and it can last a little bit, cause I’m moving right now).
mariposa
at 21:48 via website
17 Feb 2010
Hi, where can I get spanish language files? thanks!
Aonghas
at 13:53 via website
16 Mar 2010
Hi there,
Is there a code/shortcode I can use that will grab the most recent album I have uploaded to Picasa? Or a random album?
Thanks
Aonghas
Simon
at 13:19 » Author comment «
18 Mar 2010
not in the current version, I’m sorry. But it’s a good idea – I’ll put in on the todo list for the next release.
Sheel
at 15:14 via website
19 Mar 2010
Why does my plugin picasweb album not look like yours. If I downloaded it. I don’t have the option of framing my pictures when they are seleted or going through them as they are enlarged. I hate that the gallery doesn’t display from teh beggining and that i have to click on a link to open it. I like it but if you can make the above changes I would appreciate it.
Emeric
at 21:48 via website
29 Mar 2010
Hi there, do you need french translation?
Charles
at 22:32 via website
31 Mar 2010
Hi!
Congrat’s!! The plug in is excelent!!
But i’m having troubble with the columns…. I need a 2 or 3 columns layout (like the demo).
Do you know what can I do to resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance!
Charles
Aonghas
at 16:34 via website
04 Apr 2010
Hi there,
Is there a way to page split the main page into multiple pages, especially if you have heaps of albums!
Thanks
Aonghas
Shawn Weaver
at 06:11 via website
16 Apr 2010
Are you possibly willing to allow a setting for viewing the albums to display in rows so that a simple grid of images can be viewed rather then images just squeezed in where they fit? Other then that this is the best plugin I have found.
mariposa
at 15:12 via website
27 Apr 2010
Hi, I’ve been trying to show the instant view thumbnails in 160 cropped, but it keeps bringing 72px non cropped thumbnails. in album view the main thumb is cropped but the other ones aren’t. the -c does not print in img tag, neither the specified img size s160. how did you manage to do it with your own album? thanks!
Simon
at 11:59 » Author comment «
02 May 2010
[answered by mail]: If you did not enable cropping by default in the settings, a typical call could look like this:
[picasaView album='Hamburg2009' instantView='yes' cropThumbnails='yes']
Simon
at 12:03 » Author comment «
02 May 2010
[answered by mail]: Did you try modifying the templates (see the readme.txt for instructions) to change the appearance of the album list? You have all options in html and css to style it the way you want with the templates. Or what exactly are you trying to do if this doesn’t help?
Kyle Bailey
at 12:14 via website
09 May 2010
I use both Picassa and Flickr for sharing photos over the internet but i use Flickr more often than Picassa.~’`
????? ????
at 03:58 via website
17 May 2010
nice plugin
lang arabic :
http://www.r-sn.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=picasaView-ar.zip
please add to next version .
thanks
Mitch
at 21:11 via website
18 May 2010
Hi. I looked at every Picasa plugin… I like this the best. Very nice. Thank you.
Couple questions:
I would like to be able to create a gallery of images based on “tags” irrespective of their album. For example any image tagged “abc” in any of the albums “def” or “xyz”. Does this work?
Also, is there a way to have the full set of images open in a child page instead of an expanded main page? For example, when you clicked the image instead of showing on the same page, the gallery iof images opens on its own child page.
Thanks again. I looked at 79 Picasa plugins. Nice work here.
Mitch
at 21:39 via website
18 May 2010
dang. Seems as if this plugin conflicts with Featured Content Gallery. Is this a known issue and are there any recommendations?
Thank you.
Rick Gontarek
at 02:34 via website
19 May 2010
Your plugin looks like a great solution, but I can only link to all of my Picasa albums by adding [picasaView]; when I try to link to a single album by adding the name of the album like this: [picasaView album='ALBUMNAME']I get an error that says “picasaView plugin: there are no albums available for this user in picasaweb” when I view the published page. If you have a few minutes to help me troubleshoot I would appreciate it.