[!--picasaweb:username:=bill.rawlinson,albumid:=5206150637658041777,random:=false,num:=5,showRandomAlbum:=false,linkToAlbum:=false,size:=144--]
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I have created a new wordpress plugin for the picasaweb service offered by Google. PicasaWeb is a free (or paid depending on your needs) service offered by Google that lets you store your photos online. The plugin is very, very, very simple and limited but it works. It will grab the rss feed for your album (or albums) and display the thumbnails linked to the appropriate link. That's it. I leave styling of the images, wrapping in additional html, etc to the end user.
UPDATES
- 22 Nov 2006
- Updated to support new parameters such as size (change the size of your thumbnails that come from google), pass in just a username (instead of the whole URL), or a username and albumid (to easily show thumbnails from a particular album). It is even easier to use now that before!
- 07 Feb 2007
- You can now have the plugin pick one of your albums at random and display images from it.. Just set the showRandomAlbum parameter=true and don't provide a url or albumid (just a username).
- 16 Feb 2007
- added new argument "linkToAlbum" which will force thumbnails to link to their containing album instead of to a full size version of the image.
- 09 Mar 2007
- Google changed their feed format so I had to update to fix it. If you are installing or updating after this date READ the readme.txt IT IS IMPORTANT or else your install won't work.
- 14 Mar 2007
- A big update that deals with the Google feed change. See the readme.pdf file for more info on installation. This version uses a stripped down version of the Zend Framework. Also, make sure you revert back to the old rss.php in your wp-includes directory if you grabbed the 09 Mar 2007 update.
- 31 Oct 2007
- A nice update that removes the Zend framework dependency. A huge thanks to Kiro for his work using lastRSS to handle the google feed. This also fixes a problem where feeds wouldn't load at all because Google changed the path to the album feeds.
- 08 Nov 2007
- Minor update that resolves a FATAL ERROR when activating the plugin on some hosts.
- 02 Feb 2009
- Renamed to Simply Picasaweb. Also added a new feature to let you include thumbnails within a blog posting.
- 03 Feb 2009
- Updated LastRSS to extract some media data; added new option LinkToSourceImage - read the readme.txt for further details; plugin is now available via wordpress plugsin db
I use this plugin on my sites homepage and that is how the thumbnails appear there. If you would like the plugin download it from the wordpress site, unzip it, put the simply-picasaweb directory in your wordpress plugins directory, activate it, and then call the picasaWeb function as shown (see readme.pdf) in your blog template where you want the thumbnails to appear.