I’m currently coding what will become 0.2.0. Like I said in an earlier post, for most of you it doesn’t change much. But this new platform will help me in the future for new features.
The main thing that bugged me about kPicasa was that I’m not sure exactly how many people enabled caching on their blog. If the built-in cache wasn’t enabled, or if they used an unknown caching system, kPicasa had to fetch data from Picasa on every single page load. In other words, it was not always optimal.
Now kPicasa will connect to Picasa once a day (or a few other periods) to get the list of all the albums and will store the data in its own cache.
Every current feature of kPicasa Gallery has been ported to this new platform. The only thing left to do is the new error handling. The main problem people are having is that their host doesn’t always allow outside connetions (to Picasa). When that happens, there’s no way kPicasa can work. I’m trying to think of something quick and simple to know right from the start if kPicasa will be able to work.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Looking forward to it!
August 11th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Hi, I cannot get the first photo to perform in Lightbox.The second and the rest are fine. Any ideas? Help would be appriciated. Arend
August 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Hello!
I have a little problem with a certain album from my picasa gallery. It contains currently 478 pictures and if i want to access it through my site, an empty page is showed. Is this a limitation problem? What can i do except splitting the album?
FYI: http://www.pflanzenblog.com/bildergalerie/?album=2008Chilis
Thanks in advance!
Pflanzer
August 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Have you thought about porting your plugin to support MobileMe?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Hi love your plugin. Is it possible to add some text below the title on the main page that displays the albumns? I can only see how how can use this with a blank page.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:04 am
i’ll try to modyfied it to add a simpleviewer fonction.
i’ll try a modal simple viewer integration like i did on xoops, but on xoops it kinda manual integration :
http://accueil.motocrossquebec.ca/modules/mastop_publish/?tac=Photos
September 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I really like the way your plugin looks when it displays the gallery, it is very nice and clean.
The one thing I am wondering about is, are you ever planning on adding support for inserting individual pictures into a post? The old version of a different plugin I used to use (http://stevelam.org/2007/05/picasa-albums-plugin-01/) did this very well, and it is something my wife really wants to keep.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Salut,
Pouvez-vous me confirmer que l’on ne peut pas afficher d’album privé ?
Error: the communication with Picasa Web Albums didn’t go as expected. Here’s what Picasa Web Albums said:
Invalid Email address http://picasaweb.google.com/xxxxx/album?authkey=tY87IS3GXEE#@gmail.com
Je peux le refaire en anglais, mais en moins bien
September 9th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Hello,
Don’t know if you got this comment earlier, but is it possible, on the side of Picasa/Google, something has changed related to API’s or stuff? Because recently I noticed the display of the thumbnails is not so nice anymore, and the way the text descpriptions of the albums was display has changed also. It used to be so nice, with a small line around the foto’s and the text display in a yellow background block. I did not change anything to my theme settings, so it seems to be related outside my site? Pls. http://uijttewaal.com/blog/foto-album/ for example.
Other then that, I must say, the PICASA gallery is really the ice on the cake, you are doing a great job!!
September 10th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Hi! I love your plugin, it’s PERFECT for my use! Thank you!!
But I’m having a problem I can’t figure out how to deal with. All of a sudden the pictures opens in TWO “javascipt” viewers, and they’re totally different. I only have slimbox installed, but I keep getting two viewers when I click on a picture inside a gallery. It’s looks kind of nasty… Both viewers look great alone, but I only want one of them.
Can you help me?
September 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I’m a retard… I figured it out. Some of my plugins was causing the problem… Again, I’m a retard. My gallery looks GREAT now! Thanks for the plugin!!! It’s the best!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Great plugin! Works great!
If I want to add the date of an album? How do I do that? I guess there is something like $album->title but for the date?
Keep up the good work! Cheers…
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 am
Hi,
For the new feature perhaps you can add a button that updates the gallery on click and without waiting for the daily automated fetch. This way people can see if the album looks ok and if anything needs a fix.
The plugin works great other than that… but when trying to add more albums to my picasa account, I do know if it’ll appear and when.
I’d appericiate if you could respond to my suggestion.
Regards,
Ido Fishman
September 28th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I also have a feature request. I’m trying to make it my self right now. If I make it I wriite it here.
My feature request is that I want the albums to have there own title. …
Keep up the good work, this plugin is awsome!
September 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Great plugin! This is exactly what I was looking for!
If you’re to entertain it, I have another suggestion. It seems that if you’ve downloaded and activated the WP Highslide plugin, if you select Highslide as the full image view mode in kpicasa, the image will not display. This apparently is not the case with Lightbox – if you download and active Lightbox independent of kpicasa and select Lightbox in kpicasa, the images still load. Is there a fix that will enable users to use WP Highslide AND have it selected in kpicasa? This would come in handy if people want to display images from their gallery on the index page, or some other page, without breaking kpicasa.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I now have done so the albums get there own titles…
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
Great plugin, it’s been great for my blog.
Quick suggestion/question: Will you be incorporating Picasa’s new face tagging into the next version of kPicasa?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I love the plugin. But have you ever thought of making a sidebar widget that would link the sidebar thumbnails to the images in the gallery? That would be crazy awesome. Thanks for the work!
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
Excellent plugin!! Exactly what I needed. During the installation process, I fixed a small issue with another plugin, called Similar Posts, version 2.6.2. Essentially, the two don’t work together. If you try, you will get the message KPICASA_GALLERY instead of the actual album(s).
There is an easy workaround though. In the Options page for the Similar Posts plugin, go to the Filter page and exclude the page(s) or post(s) in which you plan to show your albums. Similarly, you could also exclude the category in which the album(s) are displayed. Save your options and you are good to go: Similar Posts won’t appear in the pages/posts containing the albums.
Let me also use this opportunity to recommend some new features:
– Include a link to the photo album in Picasa: For me this would be most useful when the album has geotag information available. You coud also, perhaps, incorporate such features to be displayed in the blog but obviously that will take more work. Or, at least, show some icon to inform the user of the availability of geotag info.
– Allow album(s) to be displayed with blog posts, mixed with text content. That would be very useful in cases where the album is directly related to the post.
– Share/show comments of Picasa together with the photo (dunno if it’s even possible)
I guess that’s it. Hope this is helpful.
Thanks again,
Ricardo
October 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Is there anyway to rewrite the URL using Apache’s rewrite mod? So instead of http://www.example.com/foto/?album=test&kpap=3 I can use http://www.example.com/foto/test/3/ ? I tried and tried different settings in the .htaccess but all I get is a 500 or an incorrect rewrite.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hi, excellent plugin!
I’m having the same problem of ma9ma about “friendly url”
http://www.example.com/photos/?album=albumname <- bad
http://www.example.com/photos/albumname <- good
I tried differents settings in the .htaccess too.
this is very important
can you help us?
if someone can help me get in touch
renancavichi@gmail.com
Thanks
October 20th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Picasa RSS question:
Is there a way to include [1] the RSS feed for each album near the album name? and [2] the general RSS for my picasa user in the main kpicasa page?
October 21st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Arend Jan van der Marel: no idea, sorry. Probably a conflict with another plugin.
PFLANZER: hmm, I’ve never tried with such big albums. With your Picasa username, I could run some tests.
TaTonka: no, sorry. I don’t use MobileMe.
Christopher A. Wheeler: not as of now. If you need a single picture, you can get the URL from your Picasa gallery and use it in your post
GGcc: je te confirme que les albums privés ne sont pas affichés. / I confirm that kPicasa cannot display private albums.
Pim Uijttewaal: the visual presentation is handled by kPicasa. Make sure you didn’t overwrite some of your files. Or that some CSS styles are not overridden.
Anniken: in the kPicasa settings page, next to Engine to show full-sized pictures:, select None (I already have some other kind of mecanism).
Patrik: check in the source, at around line 152. You can access the date by using $album->published. Happy hacking!
Ido Fishman: yes an “Update now” button will be there!
Patrik: sorry the purpose of this plugin is simply to use the data from your Picasa account. It’s not (and will not be) an gallery manager. Thanks for your support. I’m glad to see you got it working by yourself – I fully support hacking my plugin.
Jonathan: I’ll have a look at this.
Brock: if Picasa adds this information to the RSS that kPicasa is reading, I might be able to add it. But for now it’s not there!
JJ: never thought of that (I don’t use widgets myself). I will look at the amount of work involved (but it is really low priority).
Ricardo: great suggestions. Will definately have a look at this.
ma9ma: you must have removed the linked page, it does not work anymore. I’m not sure I can make it work with mod_rewrite, I’m now knowledgeable enough on this topic.
nick: I do not plan to add a RSS feed, there’s already one from your Picasa account.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Works now. Thank you for your reply!
was my mistake. Albums can have 500 pictures, that´s the google limitation.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Is there any other way to style the thumbnails without editing the plugin css? And how do I make the thumbnails for the albums smaller? I want them to be about 90x90px, and I think they are waaay to big as they are now
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi. Great plugin.
How can I change the thumbnail size?
I have a border around the image and around the caption, so I need square thumbnails to make them match.
Where should I look?
November 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
first of all, thanks for creating such a great plugin.
now, my query. i have about 30 albums, and i’ve set the number of albums to show per page to 12. strangely, sometimes it shows 12, and other times, it shows less than 12. so, i’m wondering if this is a bug, or that i’m doing something wrong over my side?
November 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Fantastic plugin.Thanks PFLANZER!
All my albums work perfectly except this one:
http://www.wombok.com/photo-video-gallery/?album=WombokFestival
It hows 261 images but none show up. My picasa username is cskitch.
Can you help?
November 14th, 2008 at 6:37 am
I need to have 2 pages with 2 different picasa albums on the same site. Is this possible? Any pointers
November 14th, 2008 at 6:43 am
and when I say 2 different albums, I mean 2 different picasa accounts. I tried making a few modifications to the plug-in and installing it twice but it didn’t work. Ideas?
November 14th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Anniken: no, this is precisely the goal of having everything in the CSS file.
Anniken & Piergi: right now, kPicasa doesn’t let you choose between different thumbnail sizes. Maybe if you try playing with the CSS file, but I’m not good enough with CSS to help you on this.
por: I’ll have a look at this, but it’s surely not something you did wrong.
Chris: hmm I don’t know what to say. Could you check if other plugins are conflicting with kPicasa?
Dan: for your second account on the second page, simply call kPicasa like this: KPICASA_GALLERY(username: YourSecondUsername).
November 14th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
worked like a charm. Thank you so much for your work
November 14th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
last question
is there any way to combine albums on one page from two users?
thanks for a great plug-in.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Sorry Dan, it’s not possible for now. I’ll consider adding this feature but it’s not high on my list. Thanks for the great comments and support.
November 28th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Great plugin,
1. It is possible to use photo albums from 3, 4 or more different Picasa users?
2. How i can put the option to show only one album from the secondusername account? KPICASA_GALLERY(username: YourSecondUsername).
Thanks
November 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Marcel Somlea:
1. On the same page? You can’t. If it’s on different pages, you can use the syntax stated as example in #2 on a third, fourth page, etc.
2. Get the album name (as shown under “Other Notes” on the WordPress page) and use this syntax: KPICASA_GALLERY(username: YourSecondUsername, TripToEurope).
December 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I’ve got the same issue as Chris. If you browse to my blog select photos you will see a number of albums, however only two so far have functioned properly. I’ve got kPicasa running along side a uStream plugin and a google analytics page…i’ll keep trying to mess around and figure it out but it just seems wieird like there is no real rhyme or reason.
Let me know if you get anywhere with this issue and/or if anyone else posts a solution.
Thank You!
ps. other than this issue, I’m loving the plugin!
December 9th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I think I may have figured out why, but I’ve got no idea how to resolve the issue. It appears that everything works great for albums with less than 10 or so images. I’ve gotten one with 6 and one with 7 to work just fine however the one I’ve uploaded with 26 doesnt show any images. I read in the post above about how you set it up to refresh the cache every so often as to make the program more efficient, could that have something to do with my plugin’s ability to only handle albums of under 10 images?
December 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Vaughn: You’ve got a good point about the cache. Did you just recently add those pictures? The cache is good for 24 hours, so for example, if you had 5 pictures this morning and you added 10 more pictures this afternoon, those 10 new pictures are only going to appear tomorrow.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:43 am
does k picasa gallery works on wordpress 2.7??
December 11th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Yes, it works – http://fundacjakairos.org/galeria-zdjec-fundacji-kairos
December 11th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
This is a great plugin. Superior to other picasa plugins I have tried. I have a few ideas which would help me work with my albums and posts. It seems however that Ricardo (see comment #19) has already provided. As I’m just wasting space then I’ll just say thanks again :O)
December 31st, 2008 at 1:58 am
Plugin works very nicely!
One thing though, videos in Picasa don’t play when shown with the plugin, it’s only an image.
I might have a bit of a play around and see if I can get it to work how I think it should. Not sure if it’s possible, I’ll have to look to see what you can pull from Picasa.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 am
I just love this plugin! Does kpicasa gallery support videos? When I click on a video, I just see a blank image with a video icon in the lower left hand corner.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Blair and Jonathan: no, it doesn’t support videos for now. It’s in my list, but it’s not a priority.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:20 am
The picture layout is not drawing correctly in my theme. I checked the code and seems like there are some tags that are not closed, and a ” that’s closed by a ‘. Please help. I’m using wordpress 2.7. Thanks
my gallery is located here:
http://www.meylingandchet.com/gallery/
also, does unlisted albums work?
January 21st, 2009 at 8:33 am
Chet: The HTML code in kPicasa validates. Looking at your code, I see that kPicasa’s
<a>tags are altered probably by some “page tracker” plugin. Look at thehrefattribute around the kPicasa pictures, they open with a double-quote and end in single-quote. That’s not from kPicasa.January 22nd, 2009 at 3:36 am
Hi Guillaume, looks like the conflict is coming from Google Analytics for WordPress. Any ideas for resolving the conflict?
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:10 am
Hi Guillaume, thanks for your help. I simply disabled Google Analytics for WP since it doesn’t seem to be working correctly.
Do you know how I can create a few pixels between each picture? I tried to play with the kpg-thumb and highslide styles.
And is it possible to work with unlisted pics?
Thanks.
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 am
Chet: Sorry, I’ve never worked with Google Analytics for WP.
Try to fiddle around with the CSS files. I’m not sure why all the pictures are stuck right next to each other, maybe there’s a style in your general stylesheet that does this?
Unlisted pictures are not in the RSS feed that Picasa provides, sorry.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Hey Guillaume, I just wanted to say I’ve started playing around with your plugin and I am loving it so far. Really great job.
Is there a way to limit the number of pictures displayed on the homepage? I have some pretty big albums and I’d like to display only a couple of pictures, much like the “more” tag in WordPress posts. Is this at all possible?
Great work, keep it up!
January 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Hi Alexandre,
Yes of course it’s possible to limit the number of albums per page, or the number of pictures per page. Just go in the administration section of your blog, then under Settings / kPicasa Gallery. You’ll have all those options there.
January 29th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Hi Guillaume!
That’s simple and easy enough! I was expecting something much more complex. Thanks a lot!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Hi Guillaume, it’s me again.
I am having trouble validating the HTML code used in your plugin. At first I had to alter some CSS ID’s to CLASSES since they weren’t unique (several galleries were being displayed at once on my front page) and that was easy.
Now I’m getting an error regarding what I believe is the pagination system. It seems the amperstand (&) used after the album name in the URL should be converted do & amp ; (without the spaces), as in …?album=20090120&kpap=2 should be ?album=20090120& amp ;kpap=2… (again, without the spaces)
I’ve tried looking through the PHP code, but I had no luck since I really don’t understand it.
Hope you can help… Thanks!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I don’t have quick access to the code right now, but I believe that the ampersands are already escaped (translated to &). If not, feel free to escape them.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I tried, but I don’t know how to do that. Couldn’t find it in the PHP code (I don’t know any programming…)
The URL to my blog is http://www.kawabanga.com.br/blog/, if you try to validate it, you’ll see what I mean.
There’s no rush, but I’d really appreciate if you could help me out.
Thanks
February 5th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I visited your blog and everything looks fine to me. I clicked on “Mais Happy Hour!” and I can go back and forth between page 1 and 2. What exactly is your problem?
February 5th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I know it works. I’m saying that the code doesn’t validate:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.kawabanga.com.br/blog/
And it’s aparently because of the amperstands in the URL of the pagination links.
February 5th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Right. I’ll have a look but as far as I am concerned, I’m using functions provided by WordPress.
Maybe you can try to add the following code just before line 407 in kpg.class.php, just above
print " <a href='$pageUrl'>$i</a>";$pageUrl = str_replace('&', '&', $pageUrl);February 5th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Yeah! That fixed it! Thanks a bunch Guillaume!
Keep up the absolutely excellent work!
February 11th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
is it possible to make it so the thumbnails do not use the picture captions? thanks- this is, by far, the easiest and cleanest Picasa plugin I’ve come across.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Hi Victoria,
You’ll have to edit kpg.class.php and add
//at the beginning of lines 320, 332, 333 and 345. This will comment out the lines outputting the picture captions.March 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 am
Hi Guillaume.
This is fantastic work and many probably feel it would deserve some contribution :O)
Some food for thought:
When I use KPICASA_GALLERY, all public galleries are shown in this single post. One picture in each row, name and description on its right side, just like in your demo. Then you can click on this picture to open the rest of this album.
When I use KPICASA_GALLERY(PicasaWebAlbumName), all pictures from that particular album are shown in one page (or many, depending on how you configure the settings)
I would like to be able to combine the two forementioned approaches, in other words, use KPICASA_GALLERY(PicasaWebAlbumName … ) so that the wordpress post would show just one picture + the name&description, in a similar fashion that is done when displaying all the albums using KPICASA_GALLERY. And the behavior would then be similar, clicking this one picture from PicasaWebAlbumName would take me to the album.
I wonder if I’m making myself clear…
Best of luck,
Ragnar
Is this possible today and if so could you give some pointers?
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Thanks for the kind words. I think I understand, it can be done if you play around with the CSS file, but I’m gonna leave that portion to you.
March 5th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Hey Guillaume,
I am making modifications to your plugin to allow for unlisted galleries. I think I have a way of doing it, but am running into a few “quirks”. I’m a .NET/Classic asp programmer, and am sure it’s a PHP syntax problem I’m having.
Let me know if you’re interested in helping me. Thanks!
March 5th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Nevermind. I got it working
March 5th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Hi Guillaume – Fantastic work! I’m looking to add some text to the Gallery pages – just a few lines that would display above the gallery lists.
Is there somewhere you recommend to add it? Everything I have tried hasn’t worked.
Thanks for any guidance!
March 5th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
ryanrobot: right now it’s not possible. KPICASA_GALLERY needs to be the only text in the post. I did this for the people who might post the instructions on how to use kPicasa. The line where they would instruct to type KPICASA_GALLERY would have turned into the actual gallery.
I might add an option so choose which behavior you want though.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Thanks for the quick Reply Guillaume!
I look forward to seeing this plugin evolve.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Bill, would you maybe share with us how you put in the unlisted albums?
I for one would be very interested
(sorry Guillaume if I’m turning this into a forum)
Kindest regards,
Ragnar
March 6th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Ragnar:
I certainly will. Let me get it cleaned up a bit, and over to Guillaume. Right now, I have some manual work to do whenever a new Album is created within Picasa. I don’t really see a way around this (I have an idea, but haven’t tested it). I also just realized that Guillaume allows a single album to show on a page – when a function is passed a few parameters. I didn’t even know about this (honestly, I just started playing with it yesterday). I will add a few more parameters to this function to allow that to work as well. Again, I will pass everything to Guillaume to decide whether or not to incorporate, etc.
Bill
March 31st, 2009 at 4:46 am
When can Kpicasa Gallery retrieve comments from the web? It would be great to see the comments.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:04 am
Hi Guillaume, did you ever find that KPicasa Gallery does not work with IE8? Or is it a problem only I encountered…
March 31st, 2009 at 9:13 am
Sorry, just made a mistake. I meant to say that the Highslide in KG does not work with IE8…
April 1st, 2009 at 5:21 am
um.. is anyone here using 2.7.1 cuz the website shows the version 0.15 is only compatible up to 2.7 and when i try to activate the plugin it says “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
May 8th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hi
I have been wedded to this plugin for a long time.
Suddenly I find a peculiar problem. In some of the album pages, the string becomes . In other words, if the $backurl is /albums/, the link becomes href=”/albums/’ – that is double quote at the beginning and single quote at the end of the hyperlink. This results in the link and text surrounding it getting broken.
The bizarre thing is it happens in only a few of the individual albums while the rest of the album pages are ok.
Can you please offer me a solution.
You can see the problem here:
http://tamilhindu.com/albums/
Thanks and regards
S.K
May 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Sheesh! I have used tags and it has broken the comment too!
Hi
I have been wedded to this plugin for a long time.
Suddenly I find a peculiar problem. In some of the album pages, the string href=’$backURL>’ becomes href=”$backURL> in individual album pages’.
In other words, if the $backurl is /albums/, the link becomes href=”/albums/’ – that is, double quote at the beginning and single quote at the end of the hyperlink. This results in the link and text surrounding it getting broken.
The bizarre thing is it happens in only a few of the individual albums while the rest of the album pages are ok.
Can you please offer me a solution.
You can see the problem here:
http://tamilhindu.com/albums/
Thanks and regards
S.K