There is a quick update on picasa plugin.
If you want multiple users, in the picasa username field, separate users by semicolons ( ; ). You can use the album names inside brackets infront of the username. Separate album names by commas ( , ).
Example : sandaruwang(Adams Peak, IOI 2006);yasaruwan(sivali)
Or else you can have...
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#1 by Bryan on April 10th, 2008
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Even though I have the delay set to 1 it still will not update. What gives? I need like a manual refresh button or something. Any suggestions as to why its not updating?
#2 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on April 11th, 2008
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Bryan, it’s day. Try setting it to “0″ and refresh the page.
Indeed, delay value seems to be a bad idea, I’ll change that ASAP.
#3 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on April 13th, 2008
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Bryan,
There was a bug with updates, and it’s fixed now. Thank you for the feedback. Please update the plugin.
#4 by blamsa on April 13th, 2008
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Hi, how can I change de size of the images? I have tried to put 200 instead of 160 in the code, in order to get a 200×200 image size, but it doesn’t work.
Thanks!!
#5 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on April 14th, 2008
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Blasma,
Those are the only sizes provided by picasa.
~ Sandaruwan
#6 by blamsa on April 15th, 2008
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But before the update of the plugin and the update of wordpress, I could resize it to 200×200…
#7 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on April 15th, 2008
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Yes Blamsa, you were correct. In fact there were some other sizes.. the problem is they don’t have any documentation of it, so I have to find by trail and error. Anyhow, I added some other sizes(including 200×200) and updated the plugins.
Thanks for pointing that out.
#8 by blamsa on April 16th, 2008
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Thanks sandaruwan. It works great!!
#9 by anung on April 22nd, 2008
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hi sandaruman, your plugin works great!!!
#10 by waenger on April 23rd, 2008
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Version: 1.2.0.2
The RRS-Feed would not be updated. I could use the Variable 0 or 1.
[code]
RSS Download Delay(Days):
0
Last Download at Thursday 01st of January 1970 01:00:00 AM
[/code]
It is possible, that a function has been disable at server-side?
#11 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on April 23rd, 2008
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waenger, it’s very strange. It means that the photos have never been updated. What do you see in the site?
Can you give the site url?
#12 by Michael on May 8th, 2008
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Which field do I pu tmy info in?
Do I replace ‘user’ with my user id?
or ‘picase-user’ with my user id?
Can I leave all the other fields blank?
if ( $_POST['picasa-submit'] ) {
$newoptions['user'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['picasa-user']));
$newoptions['title'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['picasa-title']));
$newoptions['delay'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['picasa-delay']));
$newoptions['num'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['picasa-num']));
$newoptions['size'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['picasa-size']));
#13 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 8th, 2008
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Michael,
Go to “Design -> Widgets” and configure from the interface.
~ Sandaruwan
#14 by raffael on May 16th, 2008
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say is there a stripped-down version to display a random image in any other website?
Cheers
#15 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 16th, 2008
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Raffael,
Do you mean without using wordpress? You can extract the downloading/parsing code from the plugin. If you using it only for one site, you can hardcode the settings.
~ Sandaruwan
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#16 by Adria Richards, Aden Networks on May 19th, 2008
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Sandaruwan,
Amazing widget! The flexibility to specify multiple albums is working great.
How can I select the number of images to cache? I’d prefer 30+ images. I did see a few duplicate images but attributed it to the cache size.
#17 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 20th, 2008
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Adria,
The plugin doesn’t cache the images, it only caches the image URLs.
~ Sandaruwan
#18 by rizky on May 21st, 2008
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hi there, I’m curious. I just want to hard-code it, pasting the code right to the sidebar.php
Which code should I paste there? I’ve been trying and trying, but my limited knowledge on php stops me from getting the desired result.
I tried to paste the entire code, but what I get is
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/gemb05/public_html/wp-content/themes/illacrimo/illacrimo/sidebar.php on line 56
any help?
#19 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 21st, 2008
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Rizky,
Instead of coping and pasting the code, download the plugin to “wp-content/plugins” directory, and use it as a widget.
~ Sandaruwan
#20 by rizky on May 21st, 2008
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the snippet code, I meant to say
thanks,,
#21 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 21st, 2008
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rizky,
Sorry, It’s not clear for me what you are trying to do.
~ Sandaruwan
#22 by Steve on May 22nd, 2008
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Hi sadarvan
I have tried to load photos installed the widget and nothing happens.
Title:
Picasa Username:stefdaventer/Namibie1
Number of photos: 3
Image Size: 160
RSS Download Delay(Days): 0
Last Download at Thursday 01st of January 1970 01:00:00 AM
What do i do wrong, In IE I see places for photo’s in Firefox i see nothing
Stev
#23 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 23rd, 2008
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Steve,
Your settings seems to be correct, check whether your albums are public.
~ Sandaruwan
#24 by Steve on May 23rd, 2008
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Hi sadarvan
my albums are public
I have trying everything ???
#25 by rizky on May 29th, 2008
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Hi there, Sandaruwan. I’ve been using your Picasa Photos for about a month. It works best except for one thing; it has no spaces among photos. You may see the live example on my blog; http://gembili.com/. I didn’t realise it til I saw yours on this web. You’ve got some spaces between photos which I don’t.
thanks for the helps.
regards!
#26 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on May 30th, 2008
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rizky,
It’ll depend on your CSS/theme files. You CSS styles might be not using any padding, you’ll have to edit the plugin to support your layout.
~ Sandaruwan
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#27 by tumba on June 1st, 2008
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Hey, Sandaruwan, Thank you for your plug-in. I’m really enjoying it.
Is it possible to have the caption of the title to display in the widget under the photo. If it could display the first comment of from the picasa album that would be even better (I put the photo details in the first comment) Anyways thanks!
#28 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on June 3rd, 2008
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tumba,
At the moment, it’s not reading the comment feeds. I’ll try to add that into next version.
~ Sandaruwan
#29 by Andreas on June 4th, 2008
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Hi Sandaruwan, your plugin is just what I’ve been looking for, and until yesterday it worked very nicely in my blog. Last night my webhoster updated the mysql-version (before 4, now 5) and the php-version (before 4, now 5) of his server. Unfortunately the Picasa plugin doesn’t work as before, although I deactivated, uninstalled and reinstalled it (the actual version). The settings are like before, but the widget (named “Zufallsbild”, which means “random image”) doesn’t show my picasa-gallery (a73pix) but a strange link.
Do you have an idea what can be done to fix this?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Andreas
#30 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on June 4th, 2008
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Andreas,
You can try removing the settings manually from the mysql database. Try this query : “delete from wp_options where option_name=’widget_picasa’;”
You might have to change the table name based on your prefix(from wp_options to prefix_wp_options).
I hope that’ll fix the problem.
~ Sandaruwan
#31 by Andreas on June 5th, 2008
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Hi Sandaruwan, the plugin is working again. I’m not quite sure what fixed the malfunction in the end, but now it functions as it should. Thanks for your help,
have a good day,
Andreas
#32 by LIN KUN on June 8th, 2008
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Hi, Sandaruwan. What to do if my theme does not support widgets? Can I add codes in to my theme manually? Thank you
#33 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on June 8th, 2008
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LIN KUN,
The easiest way would be to add sidebar support for your theme. It’s very easy and can be done in few lines. Look at the following link :
http://www.blogohblog.com/adding-extra-sidebar-to-your-wordpress-theme/
~ Sandaruwan
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#34 by Joao on July 1st, 2008
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hi guys,
need a bit of help.
I’ve been using the picasa widget for a few months without any problems.
Now it won’t update the RSS feed (last update was a week ago) and shows the photos I used to have in picasaweb.
The problem is that I deleted some and i get a ‘not found’ image when it randomly selects a picture that doesn’t exist anymore.
I’ve tried everything:0 days, disabling the plugin… I’ve even tried to search in every file in the wordpress directories to see if I could manually edit the image url’s to stop the errors from showing… couldn’t find any.
I’m using WP 2.2.2 and the latest version of the plugin.
Any ideas? Thanks
PS: the folder is public.
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#35 by baconzoo on July 8th, 2008
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I’ve tried everything I know to get the image links to open up in a new window. Is this not possible?
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#36 by Philix on July 24th, 2008
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This is a great plug in
#37 by Daniel Phillips on July 26th, 2008
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Hey, very useful plugin. Thanks
One thing, I can’t get it to work with 2.6
This is my format: alleyoopster(Letang,SharkDiveBahamas,ZellAmSee,LeftAndLeaving);
and options are like this:
Check for new photos for each days 0
Last Download at Saturday 26th of July 2008 09:22:40 AM
All it does is show pictures from the first album, whatever I do.
Can you help or do I need to wait for an update?
thanks
#38 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on July 27th, 2008
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Daniel,
The Album names should be the full title with spaces.
Ex : alleyoopster(Letang,Shark Dive Bahamas,Zell am See,Left and Leaving)
~ Sandaruwan
#39 by Geert on August 15th, 2008
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Can you (or I) edit the plugin so the album opens in a new page when they click the foto in my blog?
I tryed some, but i cannot find the right line to edit it.
#40 by Sandaruwan Gunathilake on August 16th, 2008
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Geert,
Add a “target=_blank” to the img tag. Line 90 in version 1.2.0.3
~ Sandaruwan
#41 by Geert on August 18th, 2008
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thx it’s working
#42 by Gene Perry on August 19th, 2008
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Hi Sandaruwan, just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for the kick ass Picasa plug in. I will be implementing it for the icihealth.org/blog soon enough. You are an inspiration at 22!
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