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**Please keep in mind that picasaView requires PHP5 to work. To connect to picasaweb the plugin uses WordPress' internal connection methods. Please ensure, you're server is allowed to retrieve data from external URLs. **

So this is how you install the plugin:

1. Upload the directory 'picasaview' and all of its contents to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Set up your initial connection properties through the admin settings menu.
4. Place [picasaView] in you content to view all your public albums. That's all.
5. If you like to view a specific album, use [picasaView album='ALBUMNAME']. Instead of the album name you can also use the unique album id. The album name is the one that you see in the addressbar of your browser when entering your album on picasaweb (may be different from what you entered as album name when creating the album. For example, if it's http://picasaweb.google.de/simon.sattes/PicasaViewDemo then the album name was PicasaViewDemo. If your album name contains a single quote use double quotes for the name: [picasaView album="ALBUMNAME'S"].
6. new in v1.0: if you like to show the images of one album directly in a post, use the option "instantView=yes": e.g. [picasaView album="ALBUMNAME'S" instantView="yes"]

It's possible to overwrite all settings on the admin-options page with each picasaView-tag. That gives you the possibility to view all possible albums of different users on your blog. These are the options that can be used in the tag.

NOTE: you can combine all options as you like and use as many of them as necessary. If an option is missing, the general setting from the admin options page will be used instead.

• album: the name of the album you'd like to view (please use the shortened part of the album name you can see in the URL on picasaWeb, e.g. "Hamburg2009" as in "http://picasaweb.google.com/USERID/Hamburg2009"
• instantview: if set to "yes", the album images are shown directly in the post. Can only in combination with album
• authkey: authentication key (as specified by picasaweb) for displaying private albums. Works only in combination with album
• userid: the user-Id from picasaweb (the part as in "http://picasaweb.google.com/USERID/album...")
• server: the URL of the picasaView server
• thumbnailsize: the size of the thumbnails. May be one of the following values: 32, 48, 64, 72, 144, 160, 200, 288, 320, 400, 512, 576, 640, 720, 800
• imagesize: the size of the full images. May be one of the following values: 200, 288, 320, 400, 512, 576, 640, 720, 800, 1024, 1152, 1280, 1440, 1600 (note: 1024 and above will currently not work due to limitations of the picasaweb-service)
• imagesperpage: how many images should be shown at one page. If the album contains more images than this setting, paging is enabled
• cropthumbnails: if set to yes, the thumbnails will be cropped, if no, they won't (note: only works with a thumbnail size smaller than 200)
• showdebugoutput: shows more information on what went wrong (if an error occured).

A combination could be [picasaView user="USERNAME" imagesPerPage='6' cropThumbnails='yes'].

The only option that can't be set this way is quickPaging due to technical restrictions.