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Picasa slideshow for WordPress 2.x

Friday, October 19, 2007

Picasa-for-Wordpress Once again, I was looking for a Picasa plugin for my wife but I have found none that met my needs. So I write this WordPress plugin for easy use as a widget :) . I let you discover for yourself. As usual it is XHTML compliant.

So how to use it?

  1. Download Picasa
  2. Install
  3. Once the scanned images, make your selection of images
  4. Click the button "Web Album"
  5. "Create a new web album" with your own settings
  6. Click "Ok", the album will be uploaded on Picasa
  7. When finished, click "View online", Picasa will open your default browser and direct you to your album
  8. In your album copy the RSS link address (in the bottom right corner)
  9. Upload the contents of the archive picasa.zip das your wp-content/plugins
  10. In the WordPress administration interface, go to Plugins and activate the plugin Picasa SlideShow
  11. Go to Theme -> Widgets and create the number you want Slideshow
  12. Remove the / the plugin (s) where you want
  13. Click on its properties, and add the title of your slideshow, the RSS link to your album you copied earlier. Adjust the settings as required.

TIPS: I found by searching through the API documentation of Picasa two more parameters (that I have not yet implemented). It's max-results and start-index. Imagine you have an album of 100 photos but want to display only the first forty, then you could use & max-results = 40 at the end of your RSS feed. Example: http://url/albumid/1234567890123456789?kind=photo&alt=rss&hl=en_US&max-results=40

Now, imagine you want to start your slideshow from the third photo. Then you add the parameter & start-index = 3. Example: http://url/albumid/1234567890123456789?kind=photo&alt=rss&hl=en_US&start-index=3

Be aware that there is a small bug in the flash drive and the first two photos will never be displayed : ( . Of course you can combine these two parameters ;) . Have fun!

  • 20-10-2007 version 1.1:
    Some cleaning in the code, the transformation in textarea input, renaming the label Slideshow to RSS more clear.
  • 13-02-2009 version 1.2:
    I deleted the color table because it was causing some problems with the new Ajax interface "widgets administration. I added the ability to use the plugin in your own language through files in PO / MO. Ability to display one or more slide (s) only to registered users.

For questions, bugs and technical aspects, head instead to the Forum .

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