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Requirements

• WordPress 3.0 or higher
• PHP 5.1.2 or higher
• mySQL 4.1 or higher

First time installation

1. Download and activate Toppa Plugin Libraries for WordPress, which contains required libraries.
2. Then download and activate Shahsin just like any other plugin
3. Go to the Shashin Tools Menu to add your Picasa, Youtube, or Twitpic feeds (expand the "Examples" section for more details)
4. Go to the Shashin Settings Menu to review and update your preferences
   • If you use an image viewer other than Highslide, you need to set it up and configure it yourself. The Shashin Settings Menu provides several options to support the use of other image viewers.
5. Go to the WordPress widget menu to add the Shashin widget to your sidebar if you want
6. Edit a post or page and use the Shashin media browser to add photos and albums
7. Note that Shashin will add two tables to your WordPress database, named wp_shashin_album and wp_shashin_photo. It's important to include these tables when making backups of your WordPress tables. The Shashin shortcodes rely on ID numbers from these tables that will be permanently lost if anything happens to these tables.

Upgrading from Shashin 2

1. Download and activate Toppa Plugin Libraries for WordPress, which contains required libraries.
2. For Shashin, do the standard download, de-activation, and re-activation steps for upgrading a plugin.
3. Go to the Shashin Tools Menu and click "sync all" to complete the upgrade
4. Go to the Shashin Settings Menu and select the option to support the old shortcode format (or you can revise your shortcodes to the new format)
5. Carefully review pages and posts that contain Shashin tags to make sure everything looks correct
6. If all is well, click the link on the Shashin Tools Menu to remove the Shashin 2 database table backups
7. Go to the WordPress widget menu to add the Shashin widget to your sidebar if you want (the old widgets are gone)
8. If you were calling Shashin functions directly in PHP, they are no longer supported. There is a new function you can call. See the documentation page linked from the FAQ section.