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Yet another day, yet another release.

Thanks to Jóhann Agnarsson who pointed out a bug in yesterday’s release.

This one fixes a bug where selecting anything else than 144px as the thumbnail size had the effect of showing the same image in the JavaScript popup (instead of the largest image).

I also fixed an incompatibility with the latest Highslide that I didn’t notice before.

And last but not least, I added the option of using Slimbox 2 or Thickbox as the JavaScript engine.

Thank you for understanding that I don’t have anyone to test my code before I release. I’m doing my best!

Hi everyone,

Another day, another release. This time I simply refreshed Highslide and Lightbox to their latest release.

I was about to include Slimbox but I don’t see the advantage. Lightbox uses the scriptaculous JavaScript framework, and it’s already included by default by WordPress. Okay it’s 18Kb compared to Slimbox’s 4Kb. But you have to include the whole MooTools frameworks for Slimbox 1 or jQuery for Slimbox 2, which are 63Kb and 19Kb respectively.

EDIT: I wasn’t aware that jQuery was bundled with WordPress! I’ll add Slimbox 2 as soon as I have a few minutes. I also found out that WordPress comes with Thickbox, why not add it as an option as well!

Sorry everyone, I left a nasty bug in yesterday’s release. If you upgraded kPicasa but did not go in the Settings page to set your thumbnail sizes, the album thumbnail would not show. It is now fixed.

This is only an announcement, please discuss in the 0.1.6 post.

I took advantage of the bad weather outside to update kPicasa Gallery. Before proceeding any further, I would like to thank David Trattnig for his code for the thumbnail size selector and Bill Ritz for his tips on showing private albums.

Here are the new features:

• You can now show private albums (for advanced users)
• You can now select the thumbnail size for the album cover, and its pictures
• Text can now be typed before and after the kPicasa output. The kPicasa call just needs to be on its own line.

Here are the instructions to display a private album:

1. Log into your Picasa Web Albums account
2. Find the URL of the private album you want to show. For example:
   http://picasaweb.google.com/YourPicasaUsername/TripToEurope?authkey=Gv1sRgCILA9ebdxLyZaQ
3. In that URL, locate the album name
4. In that same URL, locate the authkey. Please note that the authkey is 20 characters long and does NOT include the # character that might be at the end of the URL.
5. Call kPicasa with the following syntax: KPICASA_GALLERY(TripToEurope#Gv1sRgCILA9ebdxLyZaQ)