Nov 27

This is my first WordPress plugin. I was tired of always having to manually edit, resize, upload and label my pictures to my online gallery. I then discovered Picasa. It works like a charm and lets you retouch your pictures and upload your pictures easily to the Picasa Web Albums site, along with all the labels you’ve created.

So I wrote this plugin to replace Coppermine as my online gallery. I didn’t need anything advanced like Coppermine has to offer. I simply needed a place to upload pictures in albums, with my own captions.

It uses the Lightbox library to display the pictures, but I might switch to Highslide, it looks awesome and it feels much quicker.

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Please vote for my plugin on the WordPress page above. Whether you like it or not!

82 Responses to “kPicasa Gallery”

  1. Stas S. Says:

    +1 vote for Highslide.
    Thanks for the great plugin!!!

  2. Jeff Rothe Says:

    Wow. I love this plugin! I installed it, and was blown away by how it works. You had a minimal description about what it was and does, but it really came through.

    One question. I see the lightbox features work in Opera and Internet Explorer…however, in Firefox, when I go into a gallery, and click on a photo which should bring up the larger version in lightbox…it downloads the photo to my desktop. It’s the only browser it acts this way, the other two are fine.

    I have PHP 5.2.3 installed on my server, don’t know how, if at all that affects things.

    Do you have any ideas?

  3. Paul Says:

    Unfortunately your new version 0.4 can not be downloaded…. yet :)

  4. Wout Says:

    And so I did, now you have 4 stars average.
    Thanks a lot for your time and this plugin!
    +1 vote for Highslide as well

  5. Guillaume Says:

    Alright, since it seems many people are interested in Highslide, I’ll try to complete the switch in the next version!

  6. vihali Says:

    It’s a great plugin. I also use picasa as an image gallery and use plugin wp-picasalb to implement the images onto posts and pages. I don’t want to put a link to picasa so I have to manually create a page to display the album. This plugin might help to do the job automatically but unfortunely I use slimbox instead of lightbox.

    The syntax of the slimbox is the same as of lightbox2. They just use another library.

    Could you please show me how to hack the code to make it work with slimbox? It should be easy but I’m not an expert on programming.

    One more thing, the plugin has problem with non-English unicode font. Some characters are replace by the question marks. Any suggestions?

  7. vihali Says:

    OK, the slimbox can work with kpicasa by commenting out the calls of initkpicasagallery and lightbox2 gallery.

    I still have problem with the display. Another plugin wp-picasalb can display characters correctly but I prefer using this plugin. Still find the way to overcome :-(

  8. vihali Says:

    Works like a charm now. Just removed htmlentities and utfdecode functions before $title and $summary to keep the utf8 encoding. This tip is for those who use utf-8 in their websites.

    Thanks for the nice plugin.

  9. Guillaume Says:

    Thanks for the tip, +1 !!! I’ll try to add them only if necessary.

  10. muchio Says:

    Hmzz…good stuff. But damn, no default UTF-8 support. Why?

  11. Guillaume Says:

    Why? I simply never thought of it, as I don’t have non-standard characters in my albums. Will it be included in the next release? Of course!

  12. muchio Says:

    Thanks for good news. Sounds promising, because I considered this plugin the best option for picasa integration. When do you plan to release next version?
    Cheers!
    P.S. Small suggestion – album/picture list paging.

  13. Guillaume Says:

    I just got back home yesterday from the Holidays, so I would guess sometime next week.

    A paginator is also on my todo list.

  14. Scimitar Says:

    Great plugin, I was amazed with how simple it was to set up and how well it integrated into my site :-)

    One question though, or perhaps more a request. Will it be possible to specify which album you want to list? My list of albums is getting quite long, and I’d like to put just a few on each page.

    Cheers.

  15. Guillaume Says:

    A paginator is already added in the next release. Would you still want to have the option of only having some specific albums displayed?

  16. Scimitar Says:

    It works like a charm!
    Appreciate both the paginator and the specific albums :-)

  17. Cableguy Says:

    This is a Great plugin!!
    I would also like to only add one album to a post…
    How do you use the paginator?

    Thanks again you got my vote. :)

  18. Cableguy Says:

    OK, now that I re-read the comments here… I think what I was looking for was a way to separate the albums for different posts. This way people can comment about one album.

    Thanks again for your help.;)

  19. Cableguy Says:

    I’ll put in a vote for Highslide, too.

  20. vihali Says:

    Hmmm, I don’t see the description of the albums. The code says it’s not included yet.

    BTW, maybe this is useful for those who use lightbox: there’s a lighter version of lightbox, called slimbox. You can google it and replace the original one.

    The download link should say wordpress.org, not .com, right? :-)

  21. Jeff Says:

    You should definitely get the “subscribe to comments” plugin if you can, if you are running WordPress. I would love to get updates when there is new feedback.

    I see people voting for Highslide, and you mentioned you would integrate it, but it almost sounded as if it would replace Lightbox. Please don’t, but if you can offer both, that is awesome.

    I would also like the ability to specify certain albums, even if you do integrate pagination.

    Don’t know if you are taking suggestions, but is there a way that the plugin can read the RSS feed, and leave out thumbnails that are for videos?

    http://www.rotheblog.com/?cat=4&album=NokesOurDog

    I customized the look of the thumbnail display a little bit. Wasn’t sure if anyone else here was interested in that. Probably would be a bad idea to add class to the div blocks instead of repeating inline style code…

  22. Guillaume Says:

    The following new features are working for the next release that should happen this weekend or early next week:

    1. added “kPicasa Gallery” to the Options administrative menu. This screen is going to be used to configure your Picasa Web Albums username, and the paginator.
    2. the previous screen will also offer the choice to use Lighbox or Highslide.

    This will simplify the call to load kPicasa (KPICASA_GALLERY).

    Also, I improved the specific albums feature when you choose to only display one specific album. It will automatically open the album (currently you still have to click on the album to open it).

    vihali: Slimbox is indeed smaller than Lightbox but it is built on mootools which is not included with WP. Lightbox is built on prototype/scriptapoulous which is included with WP now.

    Jeff: thanks for the pointer to Subscribe to Comments. I’ll definately install this weekend. I also agree with your suggestion of keeping Lightbox, the next release will offer the option to choose between the two.

  23. Guillaume Says:

    As promised, here’s the new version that hopefully everyone will like. As usualy, do not hesitate to report any bug as I don’t have many different configurations to test on!

  24. Paul Says:

    Its not working for me, the new update that is… when entered the picasa gallery name, i get a lot of errors but no pictures :( If its only me, i keep working with the old version. That works great.

    Paul

  25. christoph peter Says:

    HI
    After working on some problems I finally got your great plugin to work. Really good job. On my blog I wrote down the steps I took to make your plugin work. Please check it out if this is okay for you that way, otherwise I will change it.
    regards christoph

  26. Cableguy Says:

    Guillaume, Thanks the new version, it fixed the problems I was discussing with you last week.

    Has anyone checked their gallery in IE6? It maybe it’s my WP template, but when I display a “kpicasa-gallery” it’s displayed below my side bar. All other blogs are fine. (IE7 & FF is fine)

    Lastly, when displaying more than one gallery this works fine, it display only the cover for the gallery… But, if you display only one gallery in a post, it displays a number of photos. This can slow down a site when you have 4 posts trying to display 20 photos each.
    Thanks again for all your hard work.

  27. Guillaume Says:

    My main focus for the next maintenance release will be to output clearer error messages. As of 0.1.0, most errors generate the same message. It’s hard to debug when you’re not even getting the correct error message! I think it will reduce at least by half the amount of emails/comments I’m getting. Not that I don’t like to receive feedback though!!!

    I’ll also remove inline styling in favor an external .css file for those who customize the look.

    I’ll be out of town from Jan 17th through the 20th for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

  28. kb Says:

    Hi.
    Very very nice update to version 0.1.0, but i habe a problem. When i try to change the side in a gallery (for example: http://zerfall.com/gallery/?album=Achim01042007 ) then it link to ( http://zerfall.com/gallery/?kpap=2 ) no more argument for the gallery and i end in the galerys startpage.
    A matter of misconfiguration from my side, oder a general bug?

  29. Trevor Says:

    LOVE the plugin!

    Is there any way that I could display two or more albums per “line” rather than just one? My page gets fairly long with just one album per “line.”

    Thanks!

    Trevor

  30. Trevor Says:

    P.S. How did you get page numbers at the bottom of your album?

  31. dadang Says:

    How do I display a single image. and

  32. Guillaume Says:

    kb, did you install the new version? I went on your website and it all seems to be working fine. Let me know!

    Trevor, maybe you use the paginator? It’s all configurable in Admin / Options / kPicasa Gallery.

    dadang, this plugin wasn’t made to display only one plugin. If you simply want to display one image, why don’t you upload it and insert it normally in a post?

  33. Cableguy Says:

    I’m experiencing is the same problem that is Trevor experiencing.

    Last Post
    “When displaying more than one gallery this works fine, it displays only the cover for the gallery… But, if you display only one gallery in a post, it displays a number of photos. This can slow down a site when you have 4 posts trying to display 20 photos each.”

  34. dadang Says:

    if i can show single image from picasa with this plugin, No need to reupload to server. but if no point no problem.

    Secon can I add word before/after KPICASA_GALLERY paremeter ?

    I try with my page, but no result.
    http://blog.dharyadi.com/2008/01/22/si-abang-belum-nongkrong-di-wp/

  35. Guillaume Says:

    dadang, I appreciate your feedback, but I think it’s going to be more trouble than anything else to display a single picture. I think you’re better off simply uploading it.

    For now, the post/page must only contain KPICASA_GALLERY. Nothing before, nothing after. If I add that possibility, I wouldn’t be able to tell if you really wanted to show the gallery or simply write the word KPICASA_GALLERY because you are making a post about how great kPicasa is and explain how to use it.

  36. Trevor Says:

    To the Developer: Two or more albums per line would make this plugin AWESOME!

    Who else agrees?

  37. Guillaume Says:

    Trevor, why not use the pagination feature? It allows you to specify a number of albums to show per page.

    I don’t mind putting some effort to implement your request, but I would like to know why the paginator isn’t enough.

    Thanks for the input!

  38. Trevor Says:

    Guillaume,

    The pagination feature is great! However, I am referring to the the fact that there is one album per horizontal line. Let me illustrate:

    [ALBUM]
    [ALBUM]

    As opposed to:

    [ALBUM] [ALBUM]
    [ALBUM] [ALBUM]

    Or three or four. If you could implement that… wow!

    Even if you can’t, its an amazing plugin and thanks for all of the work!

  39. Savin Vijay Says:

    Hey!

    I just want to say. What a great plugin. Great work!
    Thanks for this.

    Just a little tiny problem, if there is a caption in one image and the following image doesn’t have a caption, the previous caption is showed. Why is that?

    Again, Great work!

  40. Guillaume Says:

    Trevor, I’ll see if I can implement that in CSS and leave the layout up to the user if they want to modify how it’s displayed. I’m not a CSS ninja so it might take me a little while to figure this out.

    Savin, thanks for the kind words. Could you point me to your blog, and send me a screenshot of your configuration, I can’t reproduce this problem!

  41. jack Says:

    Hello Guillaume,

    Ran into this plugin because I want to transfer all my images to Picasa. I’m using Plogger right now (which is very good, but images have to be on once own server…): http://www.spoenk.nl/fotografie/natuur/in_het_bos

    I agree with Trevor that perhaps the css could be expanded a bit. Perhaps inserting (if possible) lists (ul + li) and a ‘caption div’ to be able to style the outcome. Mostly this is all that is needed to be able to style almost anything in a gallery: <a>

    Also (although it works flawlessly), I have always liked a rather direct display of images, instead of sliding effects. Especially when viewing twenty plus images on a site this can become rather annoying and can give me a headache ;) . Less is more (imho). Perhaps adding Thickbox too? The only thing that would have to be changed is rel=”lightbox” into class=”thickbox” and it works.
    http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

    I really like your plugin and I’m eager to use it.
    Perhaps a few other suggestions for the future (but not necessary to start using it … ;) ):
    - aside from picturelinks, textlinks for use in sidebar?
    - a first/most recent page for frequent visitors with latest additions
    - squared thumbs, for easier styling.

    And thanks! =)

    Jack

  42. picard Says:

    Many THX for the great plugin!
    its really good.

    sorry my bad englisch ;-/

  43. Jeff Says:

    I read through the posts here to see what was new in the past week, and to see if I could find out what was changed in version 1.2 of kPicasa.

    Can anyone let me know, or give me the web address of the version-ing information, I must be missing it.

    Congrats for getting the notify comments plugin installed. That is great and will help me stay up to date a lot more.

  44. Guillaume Says:

    Jeff, open kpicasa_gallery.php and look at the top of the file. That’s the closest thing to a changelog you’ll find.

    I think I’m gonna create a new post on this blog for each new release and add a few lines of explanation. That way people can track the changes and see if it’s worth it.

  45. Jeff Says:

    What do I need to do to get the kPicasa plugin working with the new version in terms of “file_get_contents()”. Is this something I need to contact my host about? Is it a configuration of PHP?

  46. Guillaume Says:

    I don’t remember if you had the plugin working before. If you did, it’s not working anymore??

    If you never got the thing working and it’s not spitting an arror about file_get_contents(), it means you have to ask your administrator to enable “allow_fopen_url”. In plain words, it means your server blocks the function used to connect to Picasa and retrieve your albums/photos.

  47. Jeff Says:

    Well, I was working on a local install (slowly) of WordPress using xamp…but the plugin hasn’t worked since version 1.0 for me. It works fine at .5. This fil_get_contents() function was in the .5 version…but did something major related to it change from .5-1.0?

    I emailed my host. I hope that isn’t a big deal to get it enabled if it isn’t.

  48. vihali Says:

    @dadang: why don’t you try WP Picasa LightBox plugin? It displays the gallery below the edit area. You can choose any thumbnails you like to insert to the post. It works with lightbox, so being a good combination with kpicasa_gallery. Those are my favorite plugins as they freed my server from heavy loading.

  49. Jeff Says:

    Guillaume,

    Thanks for continuing support. I now have 1.3 of Kpicasa working on my blog.

    These are feature suggestions, take them or leave them because obviously, this is your plugin and you have done a great job of keeping it simple but pump out seamlessly elegant albums on our WordPress blogs.

    I see that you did implement what Trevor asked for back in January, the side by side photos….

    I will just say that I am not crazy about the tables, and kind of leave that there. Does anyone else feel that way? In the way that is applies to my blog, floated div’s would work just as well, inside one larger div container. I know you get into issues of cross browser floating issues, and making float work for each browser as you would have to clear the last float….so, like I said, just curious if anyone else feels that way.

    Second….could we get options on what to display on the public side? I know these would be global settings, since there really isn’t an option to have specific settings per album (see comment about nicety in simplicity)….but I haven’t filled out all of my information on my albums:) So, I don’t have location, or description filled out. My descriptions vary in length, and I like to have my albums display evenly and not be pushed by the text…

    I know I could hack up the plugin, taking that line of code out…but I would prefer not to, makes upgrading crappy.

    So, two cents.

    You’re the best, hopefully this doesn’t come across as negative, because I meant just the opposite. How can we little people suggest tiny features to already solid plugin:)

  50. Jeff Says:

    Ooop, just thought of something else. Might be way out there.

    Would you be able to read the date of the album, and then translate that to another on/off option that we could have the date display below the thumbnail in different display configs like May, 2007 – 05.01.07 – May 31, 2007, etc etc.

    I had been putting dates in the titles of the albums, but am trying to change that now.

  51. Jeff Says:

    Do you still really appreciate my comments:)….

    I thought today, as I worked on styling the inside of the album, that it would be cool to just have the images there, no captions. Then, when you hover over the image, it attaches one of those overlaid comment boxes, showing the comments, and then you could still see them of course in lightbox when you click on the thumbnail for a larger image.

  52. Guillaume Says:

    Well this is where I’ll have to draw the line. While I appreciate your feedback, most of the things you’re requesting have not been asked by anyone else. I’m not sure I have the motivation to spend time on stuff that will be used by very few people. I know you’re asking kindly, but unfortunately I’m not going work on that.

    Don’t take it personal, when I created the plugin, it was because I couldn’t find one that did what I wanted. Since I was the only one to do this at the time, I thought other people would like it. I think I’ve implemented pretty much everything that I thought was valuable. I’m not saying that I’m not going to push out new releases, but unless someone comes up with something big, this plugin is pretty much complete.

    And by the way, I’m now creating a new post for every version, I would appreciate if you could comment in the “current” version post. Thank you :)

  53. Patrick Mark Says:

    Great job on the plugin! The best gallery project I’ve worked with but I’m also having the same problem mentioned by Jeff Rothe in December.

    The lightbox function works well in IE but does not operate in Firefox. Instead a prompt appears asking the reader to download the photo.

    Any suggestions?

    Ok, this is strange…. As I was typing this entry, I checked the site again and now lightbox works with both IE and FFx… Any ideas of why this may be occuring?

    Thanks and great work!

  54. Jeff Says:

    Two things.

    One, do you have the Word Press Lightbox plugin installed? That can create conflict btw the two plugins.

    Two, you have to make sure the page fully loads before Lightbox will work, otherwise the image will still display, but it just opens up on a white page.

  55. S.K Says:

    Hi,

    It is a godsend plugin for me after languishing with Flickr and its habit of showing the $ sign if you want more than 3 albums!

    Ok, I have a problem. The pagination links (1, 2 etc) and the next, previous links on the expanded image do not work for me. Is it a problem with my theme or something else?

    Could you please help me.

    Regards,

    S.K

  56. Guillaume Says:

    Hi,
    First, make sure you are running the latest version. This was a known bug in 0.1.0.

    If it still happens, could you point me to your blog?

    Thanks!

  57. S.K Says:

    Guillaume,

    I’m using the latest version.

    Beats me why it is not working properly and what is breaking it.

    Please view the album page here:

    http://cyberbrahma.com/photo-gallery/?album=BaraChukiFalls

    Thanks

    S.K

  58. S.K Says:

    I found the reason for the problem. It is the Google Analyticator plugin that causes this.

    And the problem of highslide not functioning and the link makes the image the image to be downloaded instead of expanding using highslide.js persists.

    Can you please provide a solution for the download issue. Yes. I use lightbox2 plugin from stimuli.ca (Slickr plugin). Does that cause this download problem?

    Help!

    S.K

  59. S.K Says:

    Hi, itz me again!

    The download problem occurs only if I select highslide. It works well with lightbox.

    Any solution please!

    S.K

  60. S.K Says:

    4th time in a row!

    I have solved the “download” problem by correcting the version number of highslide.js mentioned wrongly as “1.0″ in kpicasa-gallery.php.

    Cheers!

    S.K

  61. Alex Says:

    Hey Guillaume,

    what a great plugin. I just have some questions. Is it possible to resize the thumbnails to have them bigger on the post or even load the orginal picture in the post instead the thumbnail, without any clickable functionality?

    Is there any possibility that the gallery would work if I right something into the post? Everytime I write a text to the post it didn’t work :( . It would be great to make this possible.

    Here is the page I’m working on. The first post is used with your plugin. The second with frank bueltge. But it should look like the third post. This size of images, which is the original on picasa and not clickable and text in the post, if possible.

    Thank you so much for this plugin and your help.

    Alex

  62. Guillaume Says:

    S.K, what can I say… great job! Did you change “1.0″ for “3.3.6″?

    Alex, the thumbnail size will be implemented in the next release. You are not the first one to ask!

    Right now, it is not possible to write anything else but KPICASA_GALLERY. The reason is simple – I would have no way of knowing if the person is blogging about kPicasa, or if they really want to include the gallery in the post. I’ll try to make some under-the-hood modifications in the next release so this behavior remains the same, but in a way that you can easily modify the PHP source yourself to make it work. But that way, you will never be able to blog about kPicasa.

    And by the way, your site is absolutely gorgeous!

  63. S.K Says:

    Thanks Guillaume.

    Yes. I changed 1.0 to 3.3.6.

    But I find that the current version of Highslide.js is 3.3.11

    Could I download and put it in and change the version number in kapicasa-gallery.php? I didn’t want to rush doing it, lest it will break the plugin!

    Regards,

    S.K

  64. Alex Says:

    Hi Guillaume,

    thanks for your answer and especially your comment about my website :)

    Looking forward to see the thumbnail feature coming in your next version. I tried it out already and changed ThumbPath to FullPath. Worked fine in Firefox but not in IE, it just didn’t show the pictures.

    because of text in the post. Isn’t it possible that you say in your plugin people have to put in [KPICASA_GALLERY] so it won’t confuse if people would write about it, since they won’t use the square brackets. But I’m sure it is more difficult than this.

    Thanks a lot for your great plugin

    Alex

  65. Jay Says:

    Great plugin, it works exactly how I want it. Easy to set up and easy to use. And it integrates seemlessly with my wordpress page.

    Thanks for all the hard work!

  66. Guillaume Says:

    Alex, I mean someone wouldn’t be able to write a tutorial about kPicasa. As soon as they explain the exact command to type, it would process it instead of simply output that string. Anyway I’m keeping this suggestion for the next version!

    Right now you can double the size of the thumbnails in an album (but not of the album cover) by searching for “media_thumbnail[1]” in kpg.class.php and replacing with “media_thumbnail[2]“. But that’s pretty much all you can easily do for now. Again, wait for next version (my guess would be sometime in March).

    Jay, thanks!

  67. Alex Says:

    Hey Guillaume,

    I understood what you meant :) . Thanks for the suggestion to change media_thumbnail[1] to [2] . It’s still a little bit too small, but I can wait until the next version :) . Looking forward to see it.

    Thanks a lot and appreciate all your hard work.

    Alex

  68. Thomas Says:

    Ive posted on wordpress forum but didnt get any answers hopefully you guys can help

    when using firefox for kpicasa plugin and lightbox as the method to display images, if the thumbnails havent finished loading you get a download prompt instead of lightbox when you click on the thumbnails.

    Ive also posted in http://wordpress.org/support/topic/147260?replies=3
    looks like there was a solution but wasnt posted.

    Did anyone else experience this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

  69. Guillaume Says:

    Hi Thomas. Sorry I didn’t see your post on the WP forums. I’m notified as soon as someone comments here, but I only check the WP forums about once a week.

    Unfortunately the behavior you are experimenting is the way Lightbox works. I don’t control this. I suggest you try Highslide. Other people have posted comments stating that they are also having this problem, but AFAIK there’s nothing I can do. Sorry!

  70. S.K Says:

    I think the download action is triggered by a probable hook contained in the longish stringed download link from Picasaweb.com. It should be a Picasa-related issue since it doesn’t happen with Flickr, under similar circumstances.

    S.K

  71. H.T.Chen Says:

    I like this plugin so~~~~ much~~~
    thank you!!!!
    thank you so~~~~ much~!! :)

  72. July Says:

    I like this plugin so much, good job!
    As a suggestion, I think it would be very nice if it comes with a sidebar widget with slideshows of random or latest photos..

    Thank you!!

  73. Guillaume Says:

    July, thanks for the kind comments!

    I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some other plugin out there doing exactly what you need! I’m sure you’ll find it on Google.

  74. Alex Says:

    Hey July,

    try out Picasa Photos: http://www.sandaru1.com/2007/07/11/picasa-widget-updated/

    It’s not a slideshow but you can display random or latest photos from your picasa account on the sidebar.

  75. Dave Says:

    I like your plugin and I have a suggestion. I like to use the plugin with more than one picasa accounts and a thing like KPICASA_GALLERY(account1,account2) would be very nice, or another way to do that.

    Thanks and good job!

  76. Guillaume Says:

    Dave, there’s an undocumented feature that allows to connect to an alternative Picasa account, but they have to be in different post/pages. Use the following syntax:

    KPICASA_GALLERY(username:yourAlternativeAccount)

  77. Pihus Says:

    Hi!
    Has anyone solved the problem with highslide? I tried to change the highslide version in kpicasa_gallery.php but it dind’t work.
    Btw, I edited the line ” wp_enqueue_script(‘highslide’, KPICASA_GALLERY_DIR.’/highslide/highslide.js’, array(), ’1.0′);” was this correct?

  78. Guillaume Says:

    Pihus, I’m not sure I understand what you’re talking about. You tried to upgrade the Highslide version included in kPicasa and it went wrong?

  79. Pihus Says:

    Highslide itself works, but not in kPicasa

  80. Pihus Says:

    I made a little sample here:
    http://pihus.pri.ee/?cat=18
    As you can see, highslide works very well but not with kPicasa (though kPicasa does work with lightbox).

  81. Andrew Says:

    WOOOW. This is the best Picasa plugun i have ever meet!!

    ThankS

  82. Guillaume Says:

    Pihus, sorry for the delay, I really didn’t notice your last post!

    I don’t think the last parameter should read ’1.0′. It’s supposed to be the version number of the script being included. The Highslide version that comes with kPicasa is 3.3.6 so it should be at least that.