Google Photos Albums GallerybyCheshire Web Solutions

The best Google Photos Gallery plugin to display your Google Photo Albums on your WordPress blog. It is fully responsive and looks awesome. Google Photo Gallery is based on Google Picasa API. Use the plugin to display your Google Photo (Picasa) Albums on your WordPress blog. Using the shortcodes it is simple to embed a single album or all your albums. Display albums in grid view, list view or carousel. Image lightbox supports touch devices (Pro) and is fully responsive.

• You get various display options for photo albums and the images with albums.
• You can display Photo Albums in Grid View
• You can display Photo Albums in List View
• You can display Photo Albums in Carousel View
• You can display Images in Albums in Grid View
• You can display Images in Albums in List View
• You can display Images in Albums in Carousel View
• You can display Images in Albums in Justified Image Grid View
• You can mix and match displays too. So you can show albums in carousel/grid/list and have the images in the album the user clicks on open up in grid view or list view or whatever!
• You can show/hide Album Title
• You can show/hide album details such as Number of images in Album and date published.
• You can show/hide Image Title
• You can show/hide Image Caption
• You can configure the carousel to autoplay, show/hide dots, slides to scroll, slides to show, show/hide arrows etc
• You can override nearly all general settings in each shortcode.
• You can enable/disable download original image link.
• There is no limitation to the number of albums and photos.
• The visitor can browse through the photos in each album you decide to publish
• You can add a Recent Albums Widget to the Sidebar that display your latest albums covers
• You can show Public / and or Private Albums

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Prerequisites

1. PHP5.4 or above
2. cURL running on your web host

Shortcodes

• [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own] Will display your albums.

• [cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos] This is a place holder to display the results of an album that has been clicked on, on a separate page.

• [cws_gpp_images_by_albumid_gp id=’6625618881344302193′] Will display images in the album specified via the ‘id’ attribute. You must use album id from Album ID helper Page

Shortcode Usage

• Display Albums Covers in a Carousel
  [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own theme=carousel dots=1 slidestoshow=3 slidestoscroll=1 autoplay=1 arrows=1 results_page=results-carousel show_details=1 show_title=1 num_results=6 hide_albums=’Profile Photos,Auto Backup’]

• Display Album Covers in a Grid View
  [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own theme=grid results_page=results-grid show_title=1 show_details=1 num_results=6 hide_albums=’Auto Backup,Profile Photos’]

• Display Album Covers in a List View
  [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own theme=list results_page=results-list show_title=1 show_details=1 thumb_size=185 num_results=3]

• Display Images from Clicked Album Cover in a Carousel View
  [cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos theme=carousel show_title=0 thumbsize=150]

• Display Images from Clicked Album Cover in a Grid View
  [cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos theme=grid show_title=1 show_details=1]

• Display Images from Clicked Album Cover in a List View
  [cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos theme=list show_title=1 show_details=1 num_results=13 thumb_size=250]

• Display Images in a Specific Album, see ‘Album Shortcodes’ page for shortcodes complete with your Album IDs. Only one album per page.(PRO VERSION ONLY)
  [cws_gpp_images_by_albumid_gp id=5218507736478682657 theme=grid show_title=0 show_details=0]

There are 2 main shortcodes:

• [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own]
• [cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos]

Each shortcode will work as is by using the default values saved on the plugin settings page.

The defaults can be overridden by placing attribites on the shortcode below are some examples.

[cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own]

Attributes descriptions and examples

theme=’grid|list|carousel’
results_page=’album-results|page-slug-here’
show_title=’1|0′
show_details=’1|0′
thumb_size=’150′
num_results=’9′
hide_albums=’Auto Backup,name of album here’

For example
[cws_gpp_albums_gphotos access=own theme=’grid’ results_page=’results-list’ show_title=1 show_details=1 thumb_size=’50’ num_results=’9′]

[cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos]

theme=’grid|list|carousel’
album_title=’1|0′
show_title=’1|0′
show_details=’1|0′
thumb_size=’150′
num_results=’9′
crop=1

For example
[cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos theme=’grid’ album_title=1 show_title=1 show_details=1 crop=1]

Credits

• Google Picasa Viewer – Ian Kennerley, http://nakunakifi.com
• Google PHP Client Library (https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/php/)
• Slick Carouel (http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/)
• Slick Carousel Lightbox (https://github.com/mreq/slick-lightbox)
• Lightbox2 (http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2)
• Masonry (http://desandro.github.io/masonry/)
• Cache – http://www.jongales.com/
• Justified Image Grid – Miro Mannino
• Photoswipe – Dmitry Semenov