I’ve been unhappy with the old Picasa Wordpress widget for some time. I didn’t write it, I merely fixed some of the bugs. One of it’s failings (in my opinion) was that cached all the photos locally on your server, which required you to mess about with directory permissions and resulted in a copy of all the pictures sitting on your server.
I’ve come up with a new version, this fetches the photos dynamically from Picasa and has a few other new features. I use this widget myself on my blog, over on the left you can see it in action (Random Pics)
Feature Summary:
- Specify a list of albums to display photos from, no messing with RSS feeds, just enter the album names
- Choose your photos from your most recently uploaded
- Choose the thumbnail size
- Chose how many pictures to display
Download - Wordpress Widget Plugin for Picasa Photos 1.0
If you are installing this plugin and you are not familiar with the process, please refer to the instructions over at Wordpress.org. Also this plugin is designed to show photos from your Picsasa web albums, not the photos you have locally on your PC.
