Picasa Image Express for Wordpress
This Wordpress plugin enables you to browse, search and insert photos from public Picasa Web Albums into your Wordpress pages and posts.
Watch this video to see it in action. Version History available here.
Download Picasa Image Express 1.1
Picasa Image Express
 Click this icon to launch Picasa Image Express
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 Select the photos you wish to insert. Select multiple photos using CTRL-click and SHIFT-click
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 Options are available and configurable throughout the photo selection process
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 All options are also configurable via Setting > Picasa Image Express
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Features:
- Browse albums of any Picasa user who has public photos available
- Search for photos by caption and tags
- Insert single or multiple photos to make a gallery
- Lightbox / Thickbox support
- Display captions
- Supports all image sizes supported by the Picasa API
- All options are fully configurable when you’re inserting photos
Requirements:
- Adobe Flash Player 9 - you will be prompted to install/upgrade if a compatible version is not detected. Flash is only required during page or post editing - people viewing your blog do not require Flash.
- Wordpress 2.5+ (tested up to 2.6.1)
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Misc comments
This is my first Wordpress plugin I have written from scratch and what a learning curve it has been. Being the first release, I’m pretty sure something won’t work as planned. Please let me know of any problems you find. I’ll add more details to this page after my fingers have recuperated a bit from all this typing.
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August 19th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
[...] mit dem man Bilder direkt von Picasa-Webalbum in das Wordpress-Blog bringt. Das Teil nennt sich Picasa-Image-Express ist extrem flott und genial. Neben der Einbindung einzelner Bilder erlaubt es auch, mehrere Bilder [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Brilliant plugin, and I’ve tried quite a few. Only drawback: It can only take images from public albums. My feature request for 1.1 would be to be able to publish images from private albums as well, for private blogs.
Of course, I can make one public album (since the images will be on a public weblog as well…)
September 16th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Great plugin! I also have feature request for 1.1. The posibility to insert one image without classes or other styling. Just one pure image
Keep up the good work!
September 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Best plugin Picasa for WP. Thanks very much… I used this to..
September 29th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Brilliant! I would love to be able to include the videos on my picasa album too.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Great plugin! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.
I was wondering if there was any way to add a couple more thumb/image sizes — I want to use 120px (1:1) and 400px (4:3) thumbs on my blog. I’ve tried to add them to the plugin but can’t get it to work for me,
Love your work though, keep it up…
October 5th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Hi all,
Thanks for the feedback.
Just released version 1.1 which adds the missing image sizes of 288,320 and 400. Note that these are only supported in uncropped formats.
Thickbox support is now working properly - Thanks Darkmatter for reporting the bug.
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
it’s the best plugin about picasa,thanks!
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October 31st, 2008 at 7:39 am
Why wont thickbox work? The images wont open in thickbox…
October 31st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Do you have a thickbox plugin installed?
Picasa Image Express only adds the HTML (class=’thickbox” on an A tag) required to trigger a Thickbox - it doesn’t include the actual Thickbox code as part of the plugin.
Here is a Thickbox plugin which I can confirm does work:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thickbox/
November 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
This plugin really looks promising!! But what I am searching for is a plugin capable of showing images from unlisted albums - as long as username and password is provided of course.
I stumbled upon a php api wrapping the picasa api. Mayby you could use it to implement support for unlisted albums?
http://cameronhinkle.com/blog/id/3696159074811309536
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Yes, I had the thickbox installed… but I’ll try again with the one you linked to here. I guess you’ll hear more from me if it wont work
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Nope, it wont work.
http://skogshund.norblogg.net/?page_id=146 <– those thumbnails, made my picasa image express, wont open in thickbox.
I think it has something to do with the adress that the thumbnails are linking to. I don’t think thats “valid” for thickbox.
Example: http://lh6.ggpht.com/natusan/SQCdvzlG6hI/AAAAAAAAHFY/aInflaRFrKA/IMG_2005-Edit.jpg?imgmax=576
I don’t think thickbox likes the ?imgmax=576 in the end of the adress.
Can you help me make it work?
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
pretty pleeeease
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Dude you made my day! I love this plugin. Works like a charm on Wordpress 2.7 Beta 1! Also works on Flash Player 10 I guess!
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Sorry for the double post. Just rated it 5-stars on the Plugin repository!
November 4th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Thanks for all the positive feedback.
The PHP API wrapper is interesting - will take a look once my workload is a little quieter. Damn real life - always getting in the way
November 4th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Great tool, although I am finding a small issue.
I prefer fairly large thumbnails, about 500px wide. When I set the thumbnail size in the settings to 512 and insert an image no thumbnail shows up in the post. If I set the thumbnail size when inserting the image, the largest size available in the drop down is 160px.
What am I missing?
November 11th, 2008 at 5:03 am
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November 17th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Very nice plugin Scrawl !
I have the same issue than Tim. The problem is in the image src :
?imgmax=null” alt=”100_2094.JPG” width=”0″ height=”0″
November 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Great this what i lookig for.. i wanna add some picture at my post..so i can select with picture to add
Great pluggin thanks
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November 24th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Hey, very good job!
It would be great add these features:
- Ability to add random album photo cover, not only single pictures
- Ability to import comments on page/posts and photo descriptions
November 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hi all, thanks for the feedback again. I’ll look at fixing the image width/height bugs shortly.
If anyone is feeling generous, would appreciate you help me win an employee competition:
http://psytoy.net/everything-else/help-a-designer-win-an-iphone/
November 25th, 2008 at 6:16 am
thanks for the plugin
when i activated the plugin ,and upgraded the flash to flash9 , it still gives and error saying that the flash version needs to be upgraded , any help?
Thanks
November 27th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Hi QueenEve,
Could you visit http://playerversion.com/ and confirm what version Flash player you have installed?
November 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
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