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.
Thanks! This beats the heck out of the brittle/slow versions I’d been using before.
If there are features you’re thinking about adding, or would like other people to contribute, please post about it.
how would you add this to an unwigetized theme?
ignore my last comment. I went ahead and widgetized the sidebar. But now I am getting “No Photos found”
under user account I have tried my email address as well as the username with no change. any ideas?
also have a problem with “No Photos Found”
Hi,
thank you for this great plugin. Easy to use and it runs at the first try.
I did a little change in the code to open the link in a new window…
Line 68:
if($link) echo ““;
Greetings,
Esco
grml wordpress did not show the quote properly…
I added a target=”blank” to the a-Tag.
Esco
thank yuo
This plugin is sweet! Nice work. I noticed in my version of WordPress the options popup is pretty messed up, but luckily I was able to click around and get it to work.
Great plugin. How do I make this work if I don’t use widgets? What code do I insert into my sidebar?