Jan Zeman

<p>Shared Albums for Google Photos (by JanZeman) allows you to easily display publicly shared Google Photos albums in your WordPress posts and pages using a simple shortcode. The plugin uses the modern Swiper library to provide a beautiful, touch-enabled gallery experience.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC. Google Photos™ is a trademark of Google LLC.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Google Photos Gallery And Slider</strong> – Display public Google Photos albums as responsive galleries or sliders</li>
<li><strong>Photo And Video Support</strong> – Supports both images and videos from shared Google Photos albums</li>
<li><strong>Fullscreen Viewer</strong> – Mobile-friendly fullscreen viewing with touch gestures, keyboard controls, and slideshow support</li>
<li><strong>Photo Info Overlays</strong> – Dynamic placeholders for counters, filenames, dimensions, dates, and EXIF data</li>
<li><strong>Download And Link Buttons</strong> – Optional inline and fullscreen action buttons</li>
<li><strong>Performance Features</strong> – Lazy loading, progressive loading, caching, and large album support</li>
<li><strong>Shortcode Playground</strong> – Admin-only sandbox on the Settings page for experimenting with <code>[jzsa-album]</code> shortcodes and previews</li>
<li><strong>Mosaic Strip</strong> – Optional mosaic thumbnail strip alongside the main viewer</li>
</ul>
<p>Many more customization parameters and samples are available on the plugin’s Settings & Onboarding page.</p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>The plugin fetches your public Google Photos album and creates a responsive gallery. Simply paste the share link from Google Photos into the shortcode.</p>
<h4>Security & Error Handling</h4>
<ul>
<li>SSRF protection – validates Google Photos URLs</li>
<li>Proper output escaping for XSS prevention</li>
<li>WordPress coding standards compliant</li>
<li>Swiper library bundled locally</li>
<li>User-friendly error messages for invalid album links</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Basic Usage</h4>
<pre><code>[jzsa-album link="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOg3EA51ATc_YWHyfcffDCzNZFsVTU_uBqSEKFix7LY80DIgH3lMkLwt4QDTHd8EQ?key=RGwySFNhbmhqMFBDbnZNUUtwY0stNy1XV1JRbE9R"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Common Example</h4>
<pre><code>[jzsa-album link="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOg3EA51ATc_YWHyfcffDCzNZFsVTU_uBqSEKFix7LY80DIgH3lMkLwt4QDTHd8EQ?key=RGwySFNhbmhqMFBDbnZNUUtwY0stNy1XV1JRbE9R" mode="slider" corner-radius="16" show-link-button="true" show-download-button="true"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<p>The only required parameter is <strong>link</strong> – the Google Photos share URL.</p>
<p>All other parameters are optional.</p>
<p>This readme intentionally keeps shortcode examples short to avoid drift.</p>
<p>For the complete and current parameter reference, defaults, inheritance rules, a very very large number of customization parameters, many samples, and the shortcode playground, use the plugin’s <strong>Settings & Onboarding</strong> page in WordPress admin:</p>
<pre><code>Settings -> Shared Albums for Google Photos
</code></pre>
<h4>Getting Your Album Share Link</h4>
<ol>
<li>Open Google Photos and select an album</li>
<li>Click the share button (or three-dot menu > Share)</li>
<li>Click “Create link” or “Get link”</li>
<li>
<p>Copy the album share link and paste it into the shortcode:</p>
<p>[jzsa-album link=”https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNxLo…”]</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> The album must be public (shared via link) for the plugin to access it.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Uses <a href="https://swiperjs.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Swiper</a> – MIT License</li>
<li>Uses <a href="https://plyr.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plyr</a> – MIT License</li>
<li>Developed by Jan Zeman</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>This plugin does not collect or store any user data.</p>
<h4>Use of external Google services</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin fetches public Google Photos album pages from <code>https://photos.google.com</code> and image files from <code>*.googleusercontent.com</code> in order to render the galleries.</li>
<li>Only publicly shared album links are supported; the plugin has no access to private albums or any content that is not already available via a public share link.</li>
<li>The plugin does not collect, store, or transmit user credentials or personal data. It only caches album HTML and image URLs in WordPress transients for performance, and this cache is stored locally in your WordPress database.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bug reports:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/JanZeman/shared-albums-for-google-photos/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">Open an issue on GitHub</a></li>
<li><strong>Feature requests:</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/janzeman-shared-albums-for-google-photos/" rel="ugc">Post on the support forum</a></li>
<li><strong>Leave a rating:</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/janzeman-shared-albums-for-google-photos/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">Review on WordPress.org</a></li>
<li><strong>Buy Me a Coffee:</strong> <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/janzeman" rel="nofollow ugc">buymeacoffee.com/janzeman</a></li>
</ul>


Shared Albums for Google Photos (by JanZeman)


I was excited to see your plugin in the new section here and downloaded it. to check it out.



It was an easy install with good instructions with easy-to-understand shortcodes.  It took a while to get the yellow and red banners away, but I learned more about the shortcode with each try.  If I may offer an opinion on some of the features, I liked the image quality and speed.  I ran through most of the shortcodes; I was hoping gallery mode meant a grid of images with pagination.  In carousel mode, I feel it would be best, if clicking on one of the 3 panel images, it took you to that particular image's full, non-cropped image.



I am not sure if any of these suggestions could be accomplished by shortcode, but I thought I would give you some feedback.  Appreciate your work!






Nice, but ...

Display publicly shared Google Photos albums with a modern, responsive Swiper-based gallery viewer.

pavex

<p>This plugin requires a shared Google Photos album link to view photos using gallery/player or carousel. This widget is free to use for WordPress users.</p>
<p>It is very easy to use. Just write a <strong>shortcode</strong> to your post and include a link of shared Google Photos album as a parameter. Instead of shortcode, html code with links to the photo will be inserted and it will be decorated using Public album javascript.</p>
<h3>Example</h3>
<pre><code>[embed-google-photos-album link="https://photos.app.goo.gl/CSV7NDstShTUwUZq5"]

[embed-google-photos-album link="https://photos.app.goo.gl/CSV7NDstShTUwUZq5" mode="carousel"]

[embed-google-photos-album link="https://photos.app.goo.gl/CSV7NDstShTUwUZq5" mediaitems-cover="true"]

[embed-google-photos-album link="https://photos.app.goo.gl/CSV7NDstShTUwUZq5" background-color="#007acc"]
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><strong>link</strong> – [string] public link of Google Photos album</li>
<li><strong>mode</strong> – [carousel | gallery-player] setup decorator mode, default id <code>gallery-player</code></li>
<li><strong>width</strong> – [int | ‘auto’] set widget width in pixel or “auto” to stretch to 100%</li>
<li><strong>height</strong> – [int | ‘auto’] set widget height in pixels or “auto” to stretch to 100%</li>
<li><strong>image-width</strong> – [int] image max-width in pixels, default is 1920</li>
<li><strong>image-height</strong> – [int] image max-height in pixels, default is 1080</li>
<li><strong>autoplay</strong> – [true | false] start slideshow in normal view (currently not allowed by decorator)</li>
<li><strong>delay</strong> – [true | false] slideshow delay in seconds, default is 5 seconds.</li>
<li><strong>repeat</strong> – [true | false] Enable or disable repeat slideshow, delfault is <code>true</code></li>
<li><strong>mediaitems-aspectration</strong> – [true | false], Keep asspect ration of images delfault is <code>true</code></li>
<li><strong>mediaitems-enlarge</strong> – [true | false], Turn on/off image enlarge, delfault is <code>true</code></li>
<li><strong>mediaitems-stretch</strong> – [true | false], Tunr on/off image stretch, delfault is <code>true</code></li>
<li><strong>mediaitems-cover</strong> – [true | false], Cover full canvas. Combine with aspect ratio parameter. Delfault is <code>false</code></li>
<li><strong>background-color</strong> – [#RRGGBB | transparent], Setup background color to RGB or transparent. Default is <code>#000000</code></li>
<li><strong>expiration</strong> – [int] setup expiration timeout in secons; default is 0; min. custom value is 86400s (experimental property)</li>
</ul>
<p>This widget, unsupported some features like a picture’s timestamp and captions. For a more detailed description of the component, go to <a href="https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/wordpress-google-photos-album-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Google Photos album plugin</a>.</p>
<p>In some cases, it may be better to use the following code directly in the template.</p>
<pre><code><?php
    echo (new Pavex_embed_google_photos_album()) -> getcode(
        'https://photos.app.goo.gl/CSV7NDstShTUwUZq5', 0, 480, 1920, 1080
    );
?>
</code></pre>
<h3>How do I update my album?</h3>
<p>The album will update automatically as soon as you save or update your post.</p>
<h3>Javascript decorator</h3>
<p>External javascript decorator is stored on CDN and loading and running of them is <strong>optimized for performance</strong>.</p>
<p>Javascript widget can be used without photos from Google photos. Detailed information on how to use javascript is available in one of older posts about <a href="https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/carousel-slideshow-gallery-widget-july-update" rel="nofollow ugc">carusel slideshow</a> on my blog.</p>
<h3>About Public album photo sharing website</h3>
<p><strong>Public album</strong> is now a <a href="https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/photo-sharing-website" rel="nofollow ugc">photo sharing website</a> and service for sharing short photosets available in single user profile.</p>
<p>The service can also be used as an alternative to <a href="https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/public-google-photos" rel="nofollow ugc">public Google Photos</a>. It is very suitable for the blogs focused mainly on photos. For example, a <strong>photoblog</strong> or a <a href="https://www.reabr.com" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>online bookmark manager</strong></a>.</p>
<h3>Important links</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Public album sharing website</strong> <a href="https://www.publicalbum.org" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.publicalbum.org</a></li>
<li><strong>Blog</strong> <a href="https://www.publicalbum.org/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.publicalbum.org/blog</a></li>
<li><strong>Facebook</strong> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/publicalbumapp" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.facebook.com/publicalbumapp</a></li>
<li><strong>Reabr.com</strong> <a href="https://www.reabr.com" rel="nofollow ugc">online bookmark manager</a></li>
</ul>


Embed Google Photos album


Followed instruction to the tee but there were no images created for me!



Was hopeful, but expected it would not live up to my anticipation!


No images - Does not work

Embed Google Photos album using Player widget.

Shared Albums for Google Photos (by JanZeman) vs Embed Google Photos album