high-fidelity

Ok guys, I grabbed a copy that was in use on another server.

I haven’t tested this with anything other than WordPress 1.3, so if anyone uses it with anything later than that, can you post back here and let me know how it goes?

Here are the destructions…

1. Unzip and upload the wp-picasa-gallery.php file to the /wp-content/plugins directory. Then activate it in your administration menu.
2. Create a picasa gallery and export it using the XML template.
3. Upload the gallery to /wp-content/galleries/<gallery name>/
4. Create a new entry and add the following somewhere in the post: { gallery [gallery name] }

When the post is displayed, the plugin will automatically replace the { gallery [gallery name] } text with the thumbnails from the gallery, which will be linked to the full size images exported by Picasa.

Edit: Whoops, should have told you were to get it from. It can be downloaded from http://www.benlyall.com/files/wp-picasa-gallery.zip

It’s a basic plugin, but it works pretty well on my parents blog, which is what it was originally developed for in the first place.

If you’re using it, let me know, would love to check out your site! 🙂

Ben.

Ok… sounds reasonable enough. Not sure how’d it go with that many photos. I’ll keep that in mind when I’m developing it a bit further, let me know if you come up with anything in the mean time.

Whoops… I was forgetting to re-initialise a variable, so if you made a second post with a gallery in it, you ended up with that gallery in the first post as well. I’ve since fixed it, so if you’re already downloaded it and have started using it on your site, you might want to grab it again.

Thanks to archaeologyman for picking that up!

All it does is display all the images in line. If there is room for them, then the browser will display them all along side each other. If there’s not enough room, then they get wrapped to the next line. I’m not doing anything fancy to the images at all. If you’re having a problem with the images going beyond the width of your post, then you might want to have a play around with the stylesheet that specifies the width of all your div’s etc for your site.

You could always hack the script up a bit so that it displays only four images wide, but it sounds like that wouldn’t be the best fix to your problem.

Edit: I’ve had a look at your site using Firefox on Linux and it seems like the problem you’re getting is because there is no padding on the left hand side of your entry. One way to fix this would be to add the following to your stylesheet…

.imagegallery {
text-align: center;
margin: auto;
}

That will center the gallery, if that’s not what you want, then you could try something like

.imagegallery {
margin-left: 10px;
}

which will place a 10 pixel margin on the left hand side of the containing div for the images.

Hope that is some help.

It’s actually looking in the right place. The .. in the path tells it to go up a directory… it’s a bit of a kludge, and it’s been removed in the latest version, which you can download now from http://www.benlyall.com/

I tried to find http://blog.nuclearmoose.ca/wp-content/galleries/peace_country/index.xml, which should point to the xml file where the plugin is looking and got a 403 error. Maybe your permissions aren’t set correctly after the upload? They need to be at least 755 for the directories and 644 for the files, if you’re using Unix… on windows, who knows.

Check the permisions, try the latest version, and let me know how you go.

Ok… I’ve made it available, even though it’s really basic and doesn’t actually do that much at the moment. It is useable though, which is pretty good.

Check out http://www.benlyall.com/ for more info, and a download link.

Ben.