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.

enomoto celtislab

<p>You can easily embed the image use a shared URL of Google Photos.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ul>
<li>Open the google photo site (https://photos.google.com/)</li>
<li>Choose an embedded image you want to blog in Google Photos.</li>
<li>Click the Share button, you get a shareable link.</li>
<li>Copy the shared link (https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx) and paste it into the blog content. </li>
</ul>
<h4>Notice</h4>
<ul>
<li>AMP support must be using Automattic AMP plugin or theme template with pre_amp_render_post action hook. </li>
<li>Image URL is the unofficial way to get from OGP image. If the specification to share Google photo has been changed, there are times when it can not be used.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customize</h4>
<ul>
<li>It is displaying the OGP data as a caption.</li>
<li>The size of the image, alignment, captions, etc. specified in the parameter.</li>
</ul>
<p>General Parameter</p>
<ul>
<li>width   : pixsels (width=”400″) </li>
<li>height  : pixsels (height=”400″)</li>
<li>align   : alignnone / aliginleft / aligncenter / alignright (align=”aligncenter”)</li>
<li>caption : caption text. If the non-display caption=”false” set. </li>
<li>type    : gif (default jpg) If possible, displayed in a GIF animation format.</li>
</ul>
<p>e.g. [embed width=”320″ height=”150″ align=”alignright” type=”gif” caption=”xxxxxxx”]https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx[/embed]</p>
<p>Special Parameter (picopt)</p>
<ul>
<li>w  : width pixsels</li>
<li>h  : height pixsels</li>
<li>s  : long side pixsels</li>
<li>r  : rotete image 90/180/270</li>
<li>c  : Trimming from the center of the image</li>
<li>p  : Trimming centered on the person or the like in the image</li>
<li>no : Meybe. If possible, video->GIF animation conversion</li>
</ul>
<p>e.g. [embed picopt=”w320-h150-r90-p”]https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx[/embed]</p>
<p><em>※ Parameters of picopt is unofficial. (estimated from picasa image customization options)</em></p>
<p><a href="http://celtislab.net/wp_plugin_google_photos_embed/" title="Documentation in Japanese" rel="nofollow ugc">日本語の説明</a></p>


Google Photos embed

Since Google dropped its Picasa Web Albums, I've been wondering if someone was developing a plugin for Google Photos - its replacement that does both more and less than Google Picasa Web Albums did. I'll start using this and will report back how it goes. Thanks!



Just what I was looking for

Simple and effective

Exactly what I expected, ads embed for google photos. Doesn't work in multisite well yet but hoping for an update!

Copy share link - paste - album

Using shared short URL of Google Photos, you can embed the image easy to blog.

Shared Albums for Google Photos (by JanZeman) vs Google Photos embed