** UPDATE ** Picasa have now released embedded slideshows (great minds think alike I guess) - for the people having problems with my plugin try this out
This is the homepage for the Picashow Wordpress plugin.
Download the picashow version 0.2 plugin here.
Scroll down for a demo of the plugin.
=== Picashow ===
Contributors: Steve Harper
Tags: picasaweb, picasa, slideshow, smoothGallery
Requires at least: 2.0.2 (+ PHP5)
Tested up to: 2.1.3
This plugin allows you to incorporate a “smoothgallery” slide show of photos generated from a picasa web album in your wordpress posts.
== Description ==
This plugin makes it very simple to incorporate a slide show generated from a picasa web album in your wordpress posts.
Adding the slideshow is as simple as adding a custom field to a post. The slide show will incorporate the following information extracted from picasawebs feed:
* The name of the photo
* The description
* The camera that took the photo
* Number of comments on the photo
Rather than have multiple slide shows on a page any subsequent posts being displayed on the same page will show a static picture block. Clicking on the slideshow takes you to the picasaweb album.
== Installation ==
1. Upload `picashow.php` and the picashow folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Add a ‘picashow_url’ custom field to any post you want to include a slide show. Set the value of this field to the RSS field of your picasa web album.
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= Does this plugin work with the Subscribe2 widget? =
Unfortunately the subscribe2 widget has a bug that stops it playing nicely with any plugins that utilize the “the_content” trigger. You can work around this bug using the hack here
== Screenshots ==
Many thanks to Jonathan Schemoul (site) for the awesome SmoothGallery script.
Here is an example of the plugin:
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May 8, 2007 at 7:55 am
Andr3jka
It looks realy great, but I just can’t make it working on my blog. I get listed all the thumbnails of each pictures which I have in my Picasaweb album so is partly working, but not as it supose to, there is no slideshow! Is there any else plugin which I have to install first. For which wordpress version it was made?
May 16, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Ken
WP 2.2 doesn’t want to install it. - Fatal Error.
May 17, 2007 at 6:55 am
lookgirl
http://dlbaobei.com/lookgirl/archives/116
It is my hack for this plugin can work on dreamhost. The Domain disable the fopen remote fetch function.
May 22, 2007 at 3:40 am
sindhu
doesnt work on wp 2.2 ;/
May 22, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Gabe
It’s not working for me either. I get all the images from the feed stacked on top of each other (two of each) but no slideshow…
May 22, 2007 at 3:19 pm
J. Pisano
Steve,
This is a “killer” plugin. However, I can’t get it to work with Wordpress 2.2 either. It won’t even allow me to turn on the plugin. I get a “caused a fatal error” message and it closes without activating the plugin.
Any thoughts?
J. Pisano - mustech.net
May 23, 2007 at 6:25 pm
shawn
I get Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR
May 25, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Emre
I agree with Pisano.My WP is 2.2.
I got same error too,when i tried to activate the plugin.
May 31, 2007 at 12:13 pm
J. Pisano
Steve,
Just updated to PHP5 and I still get the FATAL ERROR Plugin so Wordpress 2.2 doesn’t allow it to install as a plugin. Has anyone gotten this to work with 2.2? I’m trying to figure out if it’s a 2.2 issue and not a PHP.
Thanks,
J. Pisano
http://mustech.net