This is a simple plugin that I use for displaying photos from my Picasa Web Albums. It’s very crude at the moment. You can configure it from the Picasa Albums panel found under Options.
Just insert the following tag into your content: <!--picasa-albums-->
You’ll need to install the wp-lightbox2 plugin.
Download Picasa Albums 0.1
Hi Steve,
your plugin is great. At the moment you can only link to a whole album. Isn’t it possible to create links directly to a photo, that appears with lightbox with prev/next-navigation? This feature would be really cool!
i’m afraid i’m a little lost…
where am i supposed to include the tag <!—picasa-albums—> ???
I’ve tried including in into a WordPress page and that doesn’t work…
How can I insert a certain album?
Hi… Great plugin:
but I saw a lightbox version in http://www.badoo.com that is able to read also multimedia (films).
Is it usable for google picasa?
Also I’d like to use better version of lightbox, can I use every kind of ?
Hi… you never answered my suggestions, however, I want to write you some improvements I HAD to do to your plugin to use it with my new hosting/theme.
For the hosting (godaddy) I changed the file_get_contents (removed function) in that way:
//$contents = file_get_contents($loc); <- OLD CODE
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $loc);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
For the theme, the thumbnails in the .thumb css class was floating around the website due to the “clear:both” option.
I changed it in this way:
#picasa-albums .thumb {
margin: 5px;
display: inline;
float: left;
text-align: center;
}
Bye bye
I’m posting with my real e-mail if you want to write me back.
I have the same problem as a previous commenter.
“Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /www/110mb.com/s/a/n/d/m/a/n/3/sandman32/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/picasa-albums.php on line 242
Warning: file_get_contents(http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/jsandman32?kind=album) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /www/110mb.com/s/a/n/d/m/a/n/3/sandman32/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/picasa-albums.php on line 242”
Any fix?
Hi Tim, you posted on my site about this plugin. I ended up getting it working like Nokao did. I had to use curl instead of file_get_contents
Some hosts allow file_get_contents some allow curl and some allow none of the above. I hope you can get it to work for you.
Hi Steve!
found Your plugin more or less by accident
Great job! Small and nearly exact what I was looking for. I added a small modification (input for the picasa server-address). If someone will find it usable he can download it at http://www.hillebrands.org/wp/2007/10/23/picasa-gallery-plugin/
Cya
Klaus