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Information about the PWA+PHP WordPress Plugin
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Updated Aug 4, 2011 by smcca...@gmail.com

Introduction

This plugin provides all the features necessary to embed your private and public picasa album within your Wordpress site.  If you find a bug, please report it on the issues page.

Demo

Choose from one of 3 demos at http://pwaplusphp.smccandl.net/pwademo.php.

Basic Version

With the basic version of the plugin, you can:

  • Embed all your public, private and unlisted Picasa web albums on any website
  • Group and filter albums using tags or title keywords
  • Allow users to download a full-resolution copy of any picture
  • Uploaded images via email, web interface or desktop app and see them instantly
  • Display image totals for the entire gallery and by album
  • Configure the interface via 16 variables (image size, thumbnail size, pagination, etc)
  • Modify the included CSS file to match your site exactly
  • Choose among 10 display languages! Learn More...

Pro Version

The Pro version (available on CodeCanyon) adds speed and style, with the following additional features. Version 0.9.4 was released April 4th -- see full details on the Release Notes page.

Full Cache System

When enabled, the cache system provides up to 24x faster page loads by saving the album's XML data and thumbnails locally on the server. This eliminates slow api calls and image downloads for a better user experience. See cache system page for speed comparison chart.

jQuery Animation

Beautiful page transitions (fade, slide, etc) using jQuery and hovering over an album thumbnail causes the image to slowly fade to reveal the album's description.

Integrated Comment System

Users can comment on your photos and those comments are saved within Picasa Web Albums via the API. Comments are displayed with the photo and recent comments can be displayed in a widget.

Additional Shortcodes

  • Album Cover Shortcode: Show album cover thumbnail in a post instead of album contents
  • Random Album Shortcode: Show random album, instead of random photo  

Requirements

You must have installed and activated Highslide, Fancybox, Shadowbox or Lightbox WP plugin. Pro version requires "Shadowbox JS" or "Auto-Highslide" for comments display.

Download

To download the basic version, head to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pwaplusphp/

To purchase the Pro Version, head to CodeCanyon and you can download the plugin zip file instantly.

Installation

  # Extract archive in the plugins directory under wp-content   # Activate it in the admin panel   # Go to the Settings section, click on PWA+PHP and run thru the token generation and options-setting steps.

Usage

Insert one of the shortcodes below into your pages and widgets:

Shortcode Result Use In
[pwaplusphp]Displays all your albums, click one to see the photos in that albumPage
[pwaplusphp album="some_album"]Display photos from some_album onlyPage, Post
[pwaplusphp album="some_album" images_per_page="20" image_size="800" thumbnail_size="32"]Display photos from some_album only with different settings for image size, thumbnail size and images per page. (v0.9.3+ only)Page, Post
[pwaplusphp tag="beach"]Display photos matching tag 'beach' from all albumsPage, Post
[pwaplusphp album="Miami" tag="beach"]Display photos matching tag 'beach' from the 'Miami' album onlyPage, Post
[pwaplusphp album="some_album" cover="TRUE"](Pro Only) Display cover image of some_album, clicking takes user to page set as Main Photo Page in settings panelWidget
[pwaplusphp album="random_photo"]Displays one randomly selected photoWidget
[pwaplusphp album="random_photo"](Pro Only) Displays one randomly selected album, clicking takes user to page set as Main Photo Page in settings panelWidget
[pwaplusphp filter="2009"]Displays all albums with _2009 in the title, see Album_FilteringPage
[pwaplusphp comments="5"](Pro Only) Display 5 most recent comments from all your albumsWidget

Comment by xtrac...@gmail.com, Aug 10, 2010

Hi there,

I upgraded this morning to v0.9 and a quick check on my galleries shows that the address of the album thumbnail is appearing at the top of each page? Is this caused by changes to the plugin, it was not there yesterday?

Check it out at http://xtracold.co.uk/?page_id=129

thanks in advance for any help

JW

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Aug 10, 2010

Yep - it's my mistake. I just removed it from the source and published v0.9.1 as a bug fix. Rather than upgrade, you can just delete the line:

echo $file;

from dumpAlbumList.php. Sorry!

Scott

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Aug 10, 2010

Actually, the line needs to be removed from showAlbumContents.php, not dumpAlbumList.php.

Scott

Comment by aaronwis...@gmail.com, Sep 30, 2010

is there a way to paginate the albums list?

Comment by adib%dur...@gtempaccount.com, Sep 30, 2010

Your website to make a donation and get the pro version is down - when will it be back up? Very interested to get the pro version, as we need comments with photos integrated on our site.

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Sep 30, 2010

@aaronwisher, no current version cannot paginate albums @adib, thanks - site is back up!

Comment by poulbr...@gmail.com, Dec 1, 2010

Just updated to 0.9.3 this evening and now the albums cannot open when click on the album photo but only the album name. Check it out on www.detandetbillede.dk

Guess it has to do with the update.

pouL

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Dec 1, 2010

Yes - this issue has been reported and will be fixed in a release soon. You can resolve the problem with an easy change to the code. Please see:

http://code.google.com/p/pwaplusphp/issues/detail?id=69

Comment by henrik.h...@gmail.com, Dec 13, 2010

When trying to generate token I get the following message:

"The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:

The site "http://mydomain" has not been registered." (mydomain is of course the name of my domain).

I've tried with a couple of Google accounts, but I get this message every time.

Any ideas?

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Dec 20, 2010

@henrik.holtenas - have you registered the domain with google domains? If not, you may need to do it here:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageDomains

Let me know...

Scott

Comment by henrik.h...@gmail.com, Dec 21, 2010

Thanks! That did the trick :)

Comment by poulbr...@gmail.com, Dec 26, 2010

I am looking forward to the new release that fix the problem I reported above Dec. 01 (open album). I am not skilled enought to challenge the 'easy' solution you referred to in your reply. Sorry. Maybe if it was explaind for dummies :-)

By the way is it possible (or could you consider to make it possible) to remove the white frame around each photo? It does not look good on black background and when the photos are not in standard format. See http://detandetbillede.dk/?page_id=50&album=PortrTter Cheers, pouL

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Dec 27, 2010

@poulbrath, the issue you reported dec 1 is fixed. You just need to remove and re-install PWA+PHP from the plugins page and you'll get the updated code. To remove the white frame from the photo, you'll need to modify the plugin CSS. Go to your wp_content/plugins/pwaplusphp/css folder and find this section in style.css:

.pwaplusphp_img { background: #F1F1F1?; border: 1px solid #CCC; padding: 3px; }

Just remove the padding line and you the box should disappear.

Comment by theother...@gmail.com, Dec 28, 2010

Hi smccandl, I removed and reinstalled and now it all works. Thanks. I also removed the padding line so now it looks like .pwaplusphp_img { border: #CCC 1px solid; background: #f1f1f1;} but nothing at all happend. pouL

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Dec 29, 2010

@theotherimage, what "Display Style" have you set in the PWA+PHP settings?

Comment by poulbr...@gmail.com, Dec 29, 2010

@smccandl, 'Never show caption' pouL

Comment by martin.k...@gmail.com, Jan 4, 2011

Is there any solution to browse photos by Lightbox etc? Browsing experience by click & click back is terrible!! Thanks.

Comment by dazmeist...@gmail.com, Jan 7, 2011

I would like to put a description up on my website to instruct users how to download a full size image. I cannot see what this option does when enabled/disabled in the plugin settings page. I normally right click the image and choose "save as". How does your option work?

Thanks

Comment by dazmeist...@gmail.com, Jan 7, 2011

Forgot to mention, I'm using Shadowbox.js

Comment by dazmeist...@gmail.com, Jan 11, 2011

it's ok, I've worked it out now. Hovering over the photos label reveals a comment and download icon.

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Feb 11, 2011

@dazmeist - sorry I missed your question and glad you got it working. @pouL - were you able to solve your border issue?

Comment by poulbr...@gmail.com, Feb 27, 2011

I am affraid that I am not that strong in HTML code. So I have not solved the border issue. Any ideas? pouL

Comment by wordpr...@roaringaardvark.com, Apr 6, 2011

I had an older version of this plug-in working fine on another site of mine. Just built a new site, got the 'new' version of this plug-in and the thumb nail has a different link URL (that doesn't work) than the title to the album (who's link does work).

I found a smilar post above ( http://code.google.com/p/pwaplusphp/issues/detail?id=69), but my version of this plug-in does not have the file dumpAlbumContents.php

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Apr 6, 2011

Some people have reported this problem using non-pretty permalinks, i.e, yoursite.com?page_id=3, but I haven't found a solution that fixes the problem for everyone.

Do you have pretty permalinks enabled? If not, is that an option for you? If not, I can pass along some other suggestions.

Scott

Comment by wordpr...@roaringaardvark.com, Apr 6, 2011

I thought of that before you even replied. I was not using perma-links (it was using page ID numbers), and for the heck of it I went in and set the site to 'Month and name'. No change except now when you click on the thumbnail image it just rolls you to the website's home page.

Pretty-permalinks... I'm not super savy with wordpress yet, but I am running WP in a windows/IIS6 and something is ringing a bell in the back of my mind that it does not allow for 'pretty' permalinks. (?)

Comment by wordpr...@roaringaardvark.com, Apr 6, 2011

Hoooold up... I did change the permalink structure and though I refreshed the page on the front end, it was still using the ID number. I jumped to the page via the menu link and VOILA I am now using the custom perma-link structures, and now the thumb nail is behaving. :)

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Apr 6, 2011

Yep, the logic that determines the thumbnail link is not reliable for the non-permalinks users. 

You'd think copying the code for the album title would work but some users still report an issue, so using permalinks is the best workaround for now. 

Glad it's working. 

Comment by gaston...@gmail.com, Apr 20, 2011

Hi:

Thanks for this great project. A question. Is there the posibility to search for some tags?. Something
like:

[pwaplusphp tag="beach,mountain"]
Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Apr 21, 2011

Yeah, you can do beach,mountain but the picasa API will return only those photos matching both tags, not photos matching either tag. I'm not sure why it's implemented that way.

Comment by webmas...@bellingham.org, Apr 21, 2011

Using version 0.9.3 and the images_per_page parameter is not working. I have it set to 4 on this page: http://www.bellingham.org/share/

Comment by dazmeist...@gmail.com, May 4, 2011

Hi, I have applied the temporary fix to disable jquery as my theme calls it elsewhere and was conflicting. However I cannot get descriptions to show when you hover over a thumbnail. I tried a re-install of Ver 0.94 and it worked for a short period but now nothing again. Can you tell me which file to amend to get this working again? This is not to be confused with caption. I am referring to the description I gave in picasa web album.

Thanks

Comment by n...@incompanytheatre.co.uk, Jul 28, 2011

Hi, I was wondering if the PRO version has functionality to enable an external link to open when an image is clicked? Thanks, Nick

Comment by designwa...@gmail.com, Aug 8, 2011

Hello,

I have PWA+PHP for WordPress?, version 0.9.4 installed. I also have Highslide for Wordpress, reloaded, version 1.22.

I configured PWA+PHP's Display Style setting to "Custom Setting". I do not want the captions to show on the thumbnails, but I do want to see them in the Highslide slideshow, but the reverse is happening: I see captions below the thumbnails and do not see captions in Highslide (Highslide's Caption source setting is "Image Title").

Thanks for assistance.

Francis.

Comment by kayhanbe...@gmail.com, Aug 11, 2011

What is the max Album name? some albums cannot be fetching from google.

Comment by sebastia...@gmail.com, Oct 24, 2011

Hi, i just purchased the PRO version, installed and activated it in wordpress, but i get a blank page when i go to settings... What can be wrong here? Thanks for your help Sebastiaan

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Oct 24, 2011

@sebastiaan: Do you have the same problem with the free version?

Comment by and...@gamesmen.com.au, Dec 27, 2011

Just bought the Pro Version and the jquery pagination is great however it wont paginate until all the images are loaded... on the official demo PWA+PHP page the images load pre-paginated... have I done something wrong?

Comment by southeas...@gmail.com, Jan 2, 2012

I am using the free WordPress? version - and I am having a hard time with the captions. If I select, and then save the setting, to use "Overlay Caption" or "Always show caption" neither works. I've tried looking at it in different browsers to check for a cache issue.

Comment by joris.sc...@gmail.com, Jan 10, 2012

hi, i have a regular pwa+php intall on my wordpress website, now i have bought the PRO version, how do i update the plugin? or do i add it as a new plugin and delete the regular one?

thanks

Comment by project member smcca...@gmail.com, Jan 10, 2012

@andrew, if there are a lot of images that aren't cached, you may see a delay before pagination until the images load. I am looking into using some kind of lazy load in the next release.

@southeasterncompanies, please open an issue and I will see if I can help.

@joris.schenk, just disable and remove the free plugin and delete or rename the pwaplusphp folder to pwaplusphp.free or something. Then unzip the pro version and enable it. Your settings should still be in place. Hope this helps.

Comment by ASPstab...@gmail.com, Feb 2, 2012

Short Code question. I'm using Version 0.9.4. I'm using this short code on a post:

album="SignsWithHumor" images_per_page="2" image_size="800" thumbnail_size="100"?

But the post is showing all the images in the album (at this time it is 4). I just want to see 2.

http://www.ratest6.com/?p=20

Am I thinking the 'images_per_page' does something it doesn't :)

Thanks! :)

Comment by ASPstab...@gmail.com, Feb 28, 2012

Short Code question. I'm using Version 0.9.4. I'm using this short code on a post:

album="SignsWithHumor?" images_per_page="2" image_size="800" thumbnail_size="100"?

But the post is showing all the images in the album (at this time it is 4). I just want to see 2.

http://www.ratest6.com/?p=20

Am I thinking the 'images_per_page' does something it doesn't :) Thanks! :)

Comment by nicky.j....@gmail.com, Mar 3, 2012

Hi I am having trouble obtaining the auth token in the settings page When i sign into my google account I get the following error

The page that you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows:

The "next" parameter was bad or missing.

Can anyone help?

Comment by sgmjneli...@gmail.com, Mar 11, 2012

Hi i can't get highslide or, lightbox WP of Fancybox to work with PWAplusPHP. If i click on a thump i only see my image on a blank page. Can anyone help ? Do i have to put some code somewhere ?

Thankx

Comment by sgmjneli...@gmail.com, Mar 11, 2012

Another question from me about the layout of my photothumps. There is a lot of white space between the rows. And all the names of the pictures have also the name of the album in it. How can I get the white space dissapear and the names without de albumname ?

Thankx


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