Edit : Latest update http://www.sandaru1.com/2008/04/04/wordpress-picasa-plugin/
I just updated the picasa widget. Thanks for the comments on the early version. Now, you can select the image size. Then, picasa username field get bit complicated.
If you want to use your whole picasa album you can just type your username. If you want only one album then you can put the album name within brackets(Without spaces). Here is an example : username(album).
If you want to get photos from more than one user, then type all usernames separated by space. You can even use brackets with the usernames.
Or else you can have...
#1 by Tide on January 18th, 2008
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thanks a lot, updated wordpress and got it to work
#2 by dadang on January 21st, 2008
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thank’s great plugin, i am using wp 2.3.2 and work.
#3 by Marquis on January 28th, 2008
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Is there a way to position the title above the image?
Thanks
#4 by Marquis on January 28th, 2008
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Or to format the title?
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#5 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on January 28th, 2008
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Marquis, change the line 89 to this :
$str.=”<p style=\”text-align:center\”><a href=\”$selected[link]\” rel=”nofollow”>$selected[title]<br/><img border=\”0\” src=\”$photo\” alt=\”$selected[title]\”/></a></p>”;
#6 by Ivan on February 2nd, 2008
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For some reason, picasa widget only displays the pics from the first album I created. I don’t know why, because there’s only my username in the config – I did not specify any album.
Any hint?
#7 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on February 2nd, 2008
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Check whether your albums are public – RSS feed only gives the public albums
#8 by Ivan on February 2nd, 2008
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I checked that too, they are public… Still puzzled…
Where can I check the rss list that plugin downloaded?
#9 by carla on February 2nd, 2008
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hello… i just downloaded the picasa widget to my mac, and when i opened the file it opened up in Dreamweaver…??? i am not sure what to do with that, how do i get it to be on my Wordpress blog page??
help please…
#10 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on February 2nd, 2008
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Ivan, In picasa.php, picasa_get_photo function, put a
print_r($photos);
after line 79, which is $photos = (array) get_option…..
Carla, You have to upload the file to your web server’s “/wp-content/plugins/” directory. Then login to wordpress admin console and activate the plugin, then configure it.
#11 by Ivan on February 2nd, 2008
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Still didn’t work. This only printed all photo names in that particular album, but ignored all other photographs.
I don’t know how exactly this widget works, I know it has to do with RSS. Well, my site is now using feedburner as a RSS and I have a feedburner plugin. When I installed my first album I used the built-in RSS feed for Wordpress, not FB.
Does this make any sense to you?
Thanks.
#12 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on February 2nd, 2008
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It has nothing to do with wordpress RSS feed. It’s taking photos from picasa RSS feed.
May be you can try setting “rss delay” to “0″. It will download the photo information from picasa again then.
The RSS results are cached, and re-downloaded according to the delay. Make sure you reset “rss delay” to larger value after that, otherwise it’ll download RSS feeds from picasa each time the page is views, which will make the page loading very slow.
#13 by Julio Anguita on February 12th, 2008
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Hi!
I’ve tried your plug in, but it didn’t work to me. I have Wordpress 2.3 and my Picasa Web Album address is this: http://picasaweb.google.com/julio.anguita
May be the period between name and last name is bothering, isn’t it?
I’ve been using this in the Widget as follows:
Picasa username: julio.anguita(FamiliaMiSobrinaMathilde)
Is that OK? Is my syntax all right?
Thank you very much and good job with that plug in!
Cordially,
Julio Anguita
Buenos Aires, Argentina
#14 by beth on February 12th, 2008
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Hi there, i love this plug in but for some reason it’s not working. When I had my original site it worked fine and I had to wipe it out and start clean. I downloaded and activated the plugin and put in my username for picasa – littlemustard but still no pics. If you look on my site you can see it is xxxx where the pics should be. Please let meknow if you have any idea why. Thanks! Beth
#15 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on February 12th, 2008
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Beth,
I tried your site, but it was a text widget with your picasa address.
Julio,
Try julio.anguita(Familia – Mi sobrina Mathilde). Make sure you change the RSS Delay to 0, when changing.
I’m going to fix some bugs and do a new release this weekend, anyway. I hope it’ll make configuration much easier.
~ Sandaruwan.
#16 by Saska on February 12th, 2008
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I installed your plugin. Great, I just love it. But last week I added a whole new album http://picasaweb.google.com/SasaGercar/StareSkeniraneFotke and since than I’m desperately waiting when any of those photos would appear on my blog. Nothing up till now
What do I need to do in order random choose will come up to this album as well … and later on also some new ones?
#17 by Steven R on February 14th, 2008
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Hey! Your widget looks promising, and it’s not giving me errors like the other 3 I’ve tried. But it’s not showing the pictures.
URL: http://www.oxnardtroop228.org/wordpress/
I’ve installed the widget sidebar plugin, and I’m using WP 2.0.5. My username for picasa is oxnardtroop228.
Any idea why it’s not working?
#18 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on February 14th, 2008
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Saska,
It should show up the photos after the number of days in RSS delay. You can set it low if you want.
Steven R,
I checked your site. Unfortunately, there is nothing much I can do without debugging. However, I think it might be because of the old wordpress version. It’ll be a good idea to upgrade.
~ Sandaruwan.
#19 by Saska on February 14th, 2008
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Sandaruwan; First I had it empty and since nothing happened 3 days after I uploaded new album, I put a number 1 in the box of number of days. Nothing again. Now I changed plugin and it works but I preffer yours. It takes photos randomly and widget is more user frendly …but …
#20 by Beth on February 15th, 2008
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Huh? That is wierd. The website is: http://www.beersandbeans.com is that where you looked? Whenever i look it up it works just fine. I got a different picase plug in to work on the pages (there is a teston the home page now) but I still can’t get your widget to work. Can you double check? Thanks again! Beth
#21 by Simohack on March 4th, 2008
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There an error into the second request (rss url fetch).
Remove “&alt=rss” from:
$rss2 = fetch_rss(str_replace(“entry”,”feed”,$item['guid']).”&kind=photo&alt=rss”);
write only (alt=rss is alredy added in the guid):
$rss2 = fetch_rss(str_replace(“entry”,”feed”,$item['guid']).”&kind=photo”);
This work great for me:
http://www.borgossina.it
Simohack
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#22 by Henrik on March 27th, 2008
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Relay great widget! Thanks for your work!
But, hove can I modify this to only display the photo then clicking, not open the picasa web page.
Just a link to the photo…
Thanks! Henrik
#23 by blamsa on March 30th, 2008
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Hi, I’ve installed the plugin after upgrading to wordpress 2.5 and its not working. Any idea??
#24 by bryanc on March 31st, 2008
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@Simohack – your code suggestion worked great. Before removing “&alt=rss” I wasn’t seeing any photos.
Thanks!
#25 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on March 31st, 2008
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Blamsa,
Did you get any error messages? I tested the plugin after wordpress 2.5, and works fine.
~ Sandaruwan
#26 by Simohack on April 21st, 2008
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@bryanc – Thanks, it’s good.
Sandaruwan, have you updated the plugin with my info on xml url?
#27 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on April 22nd, 2008
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Simohack, yes thanks.
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#28 by qingyu on November 16th, 2008
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hello
sandaruwan
i like the plugin very much,but it cann’t work well.it cann’t dispaly any photos,except red cross. (sorry,i am not a coder ).
would you help me? thanks!
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#29 by Hamish on January 14th, 2009
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Hello,
Is there anyway I can rotate the images in my selected album – using your widget?
Many thanks,
Hamish