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Picasa for WordPress Just a small change

when adding an album, I now set the values ​​of the width of the album 100% by default (changeable of course).

No more sense than 210px (I'm weird sometimes, why 210px )?

There, there ...

Picasa for WordPress plugin like shoutbox, and that of the Marquee, I use now for hosting the wordpress.org plugin. This is to make it easier for everything to update and easy access to changes in the plugin.

While in operation, but nothing new in the code, the plugin now supports ALL versions of WordPress 2.x to 2.8.x. Indeed, up to version 2.7 many widgets management was very different.

Happy downloading!

Picasa-for-Wordpress Once again, I was looking for a Picasa plugin for my wife but I did not find one that meets my needs. So I am writing this plugin easy to use WordPress as a widget . I will 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 "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 directory
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 before. Adjust the settings as required.

TIPS: I found by searching the API documentation of Picasa two more parameters (which 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 that 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 textarea in input processing, renaming the label Slideshow to RSS more clear.
• 13-02-2009 version 1.2:
  I deleted the part color table because it was causing some problems with the new Ajax interface to "administration widgets. 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 .