kPicasa Gallery 0.2.4
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A new release just in time for Christmas.
- Added the instructions to the configuration page.
- The published date format can be customized.
- Added a link to view the slideshow provided by Picasa.
- Added the Fancybox engine. Video playback is buggy, but someone requested it.
- Other miscellaneous internal changes so it’s more self-contained. Not that it was spreading accross your WordPress install, but it’s even cleaner.
- Now connecting to Picasa the WordPress way.
- Uninstalling kPicasa now deletes the configuration settings. Nothing should be left behind.
Upcoming features:
- Multiple unlisted albums.
- Switch to Shortcodes.
Remember to vote for kPicasa Gallery in the WordPress directory!
June 19th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
nope, I didn’t check the album description in the settings page…
June 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Thanks so much for the plugin! It’s working really well on my site running WP3.0.
However, I am having one issue while viewing an album page: The footer is being written outside of the wrapper element. For example, the normal markup is something like:
wrapper
– main
— content
— /content
– /main
– footer
– /footer
/wrapper
But on the album page, it’s more like:
wrapper
– main
— content
— /content
– /main
/wrapper
footer
/footer
Spent a little time poking around the code and I can’t figure out why and especially why only when viewing an album and not the album list.
Any thoughts?
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:46 am
The Plugin only works in WP3.0 if u enter the shortcode in the WYSIWYG-Editor. If u enter the Shortcode in the Code-Editor u will read KPICASA_GALLERY on the page instead of the Picasa Albums.
June 24th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Hi.
first of all, thanks for the plugin.
how can i take the title of album, to the title of the page?
July 5th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Hi there,
Actually it`s a gr8 wp plugin , keep it up …
I`ve some recent trouble issue which I got when changed wordpress links to permalinks … Now am trying to browse albums on its page, but not working as all albums redirect 2 the same main page !!!
so , plz what shall I do ?
July 14th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Hi, this plugin looked like what I was looking for but when I tried to use it I got the following error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/listade/public_html/COMIC-CON/wp-content/plugins/kpicasa-gallery-php4mod/kpg.class.php on line 133
Can you help? Please!
Regards
Eduardo
July 14th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Dear Sir,
Please, forget what I asked before. It was my mistake. 🙂
Great plugin. I will vote NOW!
Thanx a lot
Edu
July 26th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Guillaume,
Great plug-in! Just a question regarding multiple albums. I know that the following works KPICASA_GALLERY(TripToEurope, TripToAsia) for multiple public albums but something like KPICASA_GALLERY(TripToEurope#Gv1sRgCILA9ebdxLyZaQ, TripToAsia#Gv1sRgCILA9ebdxLyZbQ) does not work for private ones. Is that correct? Is there a certain way to show multiple private albums?
Thanks for your help!
norm
July 26th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Norm: due to technical reasons, for now, there can only be one private albums per page/post. Maybe this will change in the future, but it’s not in my short term plans. Sorry and thanks for your support.
August 2nd, 2010 at 8:39 am
Hi,
Great plugin, thanks! Just, how can I use kpicasa and a separate plugin (shadowbox/highslide) for the other pictures on my website? When I add another plugin like WP-highslide and activate it, the pictures in the kpicasa album won’t work anymore because I think the highslide is loaded twice. Is there any possibility to only load it once or use your plugin for individual pictures as well?
Thanks!
Piet
August 2nd, 2010 at 8:44 am
Piet,
I use Shashin. after you install the plugin, it has a sidebar widgets, plugins for pages, and all of it, using short tags. I tried Kpicasa and it was just not enough for me. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shashin/
It’s a little complex to set up, at first, but man. it’s incredible. Check out my sidebar, and my page entitled “My Life” and you can see what it does. No additional plugins necessary.
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:04 am
Thanks Andy, but I would like to continue to use kpicasa. It’s easy and simple and works perfect. Adding a new plugin just for this issue takes too much time and effort. I don’t think it’s so difficult to make it work with the separate effect plugins, just I would like to know how.
August 31st, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Hello, I’m using the plugin and is currently experiencing the following error: “could not connect to host”. Could you help me? Thank you.
Example: http://www.autocustom.com.br/galeria/
October 11th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Great plug-in! Thanks for the amazing work!
November 19th, 2010 at 11:21 am
hai,
I love the plugin. But when I brought my site to another server the same problem as Alexander had popped up: “name lookup timed out” and no photo’s appear. My host couldn’t tell what the problem was, so does anybody know here?
The side is a birth gift, so for them it’s a shame they don’t see the pictures of their baby.
thanks
November 19th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
@Mirjam: the problem is your web server cannot connect to Picasa. Some setting is preventing the connection from going through. It would be a firewall, a PHP setting, an OS setting, sorry but I don’t know.
January 8th, 2011 at 5:52 am
Hai,
Thanks for your plugin. I wonder is it possible not to open the slideshow in a popup, but in a new window? How can I get that done? Thanks!
January 16th, 2011 at 1:55 am
Hi, plugin works great with private albums with syntax KPICASA_GALLERY(gallery#authkey) but is there any way to just display the album thumbnail that when clicked opens the album and not display all the photos on the page by default? Thanks.
January 29th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Hey Guillaume!
This is a really great plugin! It took a while to understand and tweak it with my limited knowledge but it works great.
Only thing … in reference to comments Mike’s comment (#31 and #39) – I too am having issues with adding content. I have the most current version and I’ve disabled the autop function so that it’s not wrapped with p.
To be exact, trying to add a div wrapped content so I can put images to the right of the gallery (please see the sample page: http://weahwi.com/wordpress/the-tree-pink-bunny-josh/.
Thanks!
February 15th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Hello Guill,
I’ve translated the last version to Czech. Also improved some little bugs:
kpg.class.php
• corrected rows 167 & 262 : marking __ngettext changed to _n
• corrected row 264 : parameter albumNbPhoto changed to albumSlideshow
kpicasa_gallery.php
• added rows 94, 95 :
$plugin_dir = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
load_plugin_textdomain( ‘kpicasa_gallery’, null, $plugin_dir );
kpicasa_gallery.css
Some little changes for better look if number photos / slideshow is shown
All worked perfect in WP 3.0.5.
Give me your mail contact to send you all files. Thanks! Josef
February 17th, 2011 at 12:20 am
Thanks for the great plug in. Are you able to point me in the right direction so I can add a download image link on the picture list and full sized pictures.
Thanks again
D
May 25th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Hi Kag, thanks for the fantastic plug-in. I don’t know if you’re aware but something seems amiss – at least for me. Any website I visit right now that uses the kPicasa plugin (including yours and my own) will only display thumbnail size images when I click on them. I’m not sure if Google have broken something or if it’s an incompatibility with the latest version of WordPress. Any ideas?
May 25th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Yes, Alex.
I too find this problem in all my installations.
Should dig deeper to locate the source of the issue. I request the plugin author to please have a look at this.
Regards
S.K
May 26th, 2011 at 9:46 am
@Alex @S.K it seems that Google changed something in the XML file that kPicasa reads. I will have a look at it shortly.
May 26th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Thanks, Guillaume.
S.K
May 26th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Hi Guillaume,
First of all, awesome plugin! I’ve just started having one problem though. The galleries and albums all display correctly, but now for some reason clicking on a picture just brings up a tiny version of the pic.
I think I know what th problem is – when I hover over a pic, the google link that appears contains “s72” (small version). I’m not sure why this has started happening -it was fine before. Maybe the new versions of wordpress have broke something…
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Thanks 🙂
Raj
May 26th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Oops – I didn’t see the last post – it appears someone else has already reported the problem. Sorry for the double post…
May 26th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
same here, thanks for checking out the problem.
May 26th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Another user with the same problem. Thanks for the good work!
May 26th, 2011 at 7:48 pm
I’ve the problem too. I tried to edit the code of the plugin, but I don’t see any strange. The problem it’s from Picasa. But, what’s the problem?
May 27th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Google has fixed the problem before I had time to work on a temporary fix. Everything should be back to normal.
May 28th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Looks good now Guillaume, thank you. I realise it was a Google bug, but it should be noted that you still tried to come up with a fix for it anyway. That’s awesome and I’ve had worse support from paid-for products. Thank you for kPicasa!
June 28th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
It seem to me to be a great plugin, except (and this could be an issue on my part) that when a new album is added to Web Picasa it doesn’t reflect on the page where my shortcode ‘KPICASA_GALLERY’ is. The only way I can get the new album to show is to delete the page and create another with the same KPICASA_GALLERY shortcode.
July 19th, 2011 at 8:40 am
@Pete there’s a cache integrated to kPicasa so it doesn’t connect to Picasa every single time a page is loaded (if you have an average of 100 visitors a minute, that would be 144,000 connections to Picasa per day). If my memory is right, the cache gets reloaded every hour.