Picasa And Google Plus Express Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download

Picasa And Google Plus Express Preview Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
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Plugin Description

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

Screenshots

  1. picasa-express-x2 screenshot 1

    Opening the album/image selection dialog

  2. picasa-express-x2 screenshot 2

    Album selection dialog – either open an album to view/select individual
    photos, or switch to shortcode mode and insert a whole album shortcode for a
    gallery of photos from an entire album.

  3. picasa-express-x2 screenshot 3

    Photo selection dialog – select one or more photos to insert into the post,
    or switch to gallery and select images to insert together into a
    small-thumbnail gallery.

  4. picasa-express-x2 screenshot 4

    Plugin settings

  5. picasa-express-x2 screenshot 5

    An example of the phototile gallery layout


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