Thanks – can you please point me to the places where it says Google Photos is supported? I thought I had removed all the references and even put up sticky posts on the forum saying that it is not supported.
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This reply was modified 5 days, 21 hours ago by
Sayontan Sinha. Reason: Correction
See this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-shutdown-of-google-photos-support-from-march-2025/, where I put in the timeline etc. for closure of services, until the forum moderators shut down the thread as others started adding their comments to it.
It shows this screenshot in the settings: https://i.imgur.com/JaVjEG4.png – I guess as a nod to better times when features wouldn’t just disappear. The rest of the misinformation is spread by search engines and “review” sites which don’t ever update anything, but that’s not something you can be blamed for.
Thanks – I will change that screenshot. That screenshot is really old (2019, I believe), from when Picasa was still a thing. Moreover, the written documentation on the same page clearly calls out the discontinuation of Google Photos:
Google Photos
Google API Change:** With effect from 31st March 2025, Google’s Photos API is discontinued (see here for Google’s official announcement). Consequently, Photonic will stop working for Google Photos**. For more details, see this thread. Note that while Google’s official announcement says otherwise, as of 20th April 2025 the API is still working, so older versions of Photonic will seem to work. However, there is no guarantee about when Google will truly shut it off.
Features don’t “just disappear” on the plugin – in all cases of a feature going away, it has been due to a change on a providing platform. E.g., Meta made it such that the Instagram API could only be used by business accounts (Photonic is not a business), and Google shut down the Photos API, just like how they shut down the Picasa API.
In all such cases, I provide as much documentation as possible via the support forum, where the post about Google is the top one.
Pardon me for going by search results instead of investigating forum discussions when I’m looking through roughly 20k different “gallery plugins” to find the one specific function I’m looking for.
That said, it’s fair enough for choosing to no longer support a feature, but it’s still a choice. Web scraping still works fine to provide a list of item URLs to massage into a gallery view (e.g., EmbedPress does it, while being a VERY crappy gallery plugin otherwise).
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This reply was modified 5 days, 19 hours ago by
novgorod.
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This reply was modified 5 days, 19 hours ago by novgorod.
You are welcome to your opinion on development approaches and your methodology for plugin selection 🙂
I was merely setting the record straight on your charge of false advertising – apart from one old screenshot, I have striven to keep all the documentation (including the one from where the screenshot was pulled) honest and clean.
No problem. I clarified it in the first post now.
