Picasa Express x2

Browse, search and select photos from any Picasa Web album and add them to your post/pages.

Author:gjanes (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.8
WordPress version tested:3.5.1
Plugin version:2.2.10
Added to WordPress repository:14-02-2010
Last updated:07-05-2013
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/picasa-ex...
Total downloads:89 153
Active installs:3 000+
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Browse your Google+/Picasa Web albums and select images or whole albums to insert into your posts/pages.

  • Use your Google user to access your photos and albums
  • Private album access after granting access via Google auth service
  • Select albums / images from GUI listing by album cover and name
  • Mobile gallery display support with PhotoSwipe
  • Google+ style phototile gallery display or standard gallery utilizing native WordPress image thumbnail size
  • Create a gallery of a subset of photos from an album by filtering the album with tags
  • Gallery and image shortcodes for display of entire album or selected images
  • WordPress MU support - sitewide activation, users, roles

Additional settings:

  • Image link:
    • Mobile gallery with PhotoSwipe - in desktop browsers PhotoSwipe is clean and works nicely. On a mobile device, swiping between photos is supported
    • Custom thickbox with plugin - including keyboard navigation and Google+ view link
    • WordPress thickbox - using the integrated thickbox provided by WordPress
    • 3rd-party thickbox - setup the thickbox class/rel, but rely on external library
    • 3rd-party lightbox - setup the lightbox class/rel, but rely on an external library
    • 3rd-party highslide - setup the highslide class/rel, but rely on an external library
    • Google+ image page - a direct link to the Google+ image page for the photo
    • direct - a direct link to the large photo
    • none - just the image thumbnails are displayed with no link
  • CSS / style customizations for most tags created in galleries, photos & captions
  • Caption under image and/or in image/link title and gallery display
  • Alignment for images and gallery using standard CSS classes
  • Define Roles who are allowed to use the plugin
  • Switch from blog to user level for storing the user and private access token
  • Settings for single-image thumbnail size, single-video thumbnail size and large image size limit

And by design:

  • Shortcodes inserted for both albums and photos in anticipation of changes forthcoming in Picasaweb to Google+ migration.
  • Support native WordPress image and link dialog for album image thumbnail size
  • Support native WordPress gallery captions
  • Multilanguage support