Comments on: Status update and feature requests

By: Wolf Zombie

Wolf Zombie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:13:09 +0000

I started out to design a similar plugin about 6 months ago and stumbled upon kpicasa. It has saved me countless hours of development, and is lightweight and simple.
One feature I would personally like to see is a link on the photos page to view the album slideshow on google’s site.
Keep up the great work.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:37:54 +0000

For those who are subscribed to the comments but don’t visit this blog too often, I released a new version that works with WP 2.6.0.

By: pinepanda

pinepanda — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:53:50 +0000

hi, good to hear that update is coming soon. I have same param.php error. Any idea when? I have been looking at several different picasa plug-ins and yours looks best!

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:47:52 +0000

Yes an update is coming soon.

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:56:54 +0000

Ditto on the 2.6 error… Hope to see an update soon. Thanks in advance!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/midnit/public_html/kristanne/wp-content/plugins/kpicasa-gallery/param.php on line 3

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:33:07 +0000

Is there an update for wordpress 2.6 on the way cause the admin section of the picasa gallery plugin stopt working after I upgraded WordPress? I get this error message in the admin-section:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/harmonieoefening.nl/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/kpicasa-gallery/param.php on line 3

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:36:31 +0000

You make it sound easy but it will/would take time. I would have to change the way I’m using the cache because I wouldn’t want to fetch all the albums and all the photos on every page load. Say someone has 50 albums, even if everything is cached, every few hours I should clear the cache in case new pictures have been updated. That means I would have to query Picasa 50 times to get the fresh set of pictures. Not sure it’s really optimal.

Hmm…

After taking a short break to think about it, I found out there are special hooks in WordPress that allow scheduling some stuff. I could schecule a job to fetch the whole gallery in the background every X hours (up to the user). I would never have to query Picasa on actual page views (like it currently happens now and then), everything would already be pre-fetched. Obviously I would add an “Update now” button in the admin.

I’m probably thinking to myself, but I’m definately going to take a look at this.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:55:10 +0000

I understand about the most recent.

How about a random image(s) widget? You could randomly choose an album from the albums RSS and then randomly choose an image from that album’s images RSS. And if you let the user choose the number of random images you would just repeat that to get ‘x’ random images.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:43:30 +0000

Hans, it is perfectly possible. I’m installing 2.6 as we speak and I’ll run some tests tomorrow.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:42:36 +0000

Steve, you’re perfectly clear. Maybe I’ll be able to trick Lightbox and get it working. I’m taking note of this.