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Smart Image Gallery allows to insert images, and pictures, in your blog, directly from the WordPress media library, or eternal images repositories (like: Flickr, Instagram or Google Images ). The images are searched, and inserted, from the article edition, without importing them to the WordPress media library. All you need to do is pick the search criteria, and the plugin will search in all available sources, allowing select the images that most closely match the blog’s subject.
Smart Image Gallery allows insert the selected images by separated, or as part of a gallery. It is possible select between different galleries designs, included with the plugin.
Features
<ul>
<li>Insert images, or image galleries, in the blog’s articles</li>
<li>The easiest way to find images related with the articles</li>
<li>Allows search for images in the WordPress media library, or external images repositories</li>
<li>Allows to display the images separately or as part of a gallery</li>
<li>Reduces the bandwidth consumption of your server using images hosted in external servers</li>
<li>Allows insert the gallery in the website’s sidebar.</li>
</ul>
The base plugin, available for free from the WordPress Plugin Directory, has all the features needed for search, and insert, images in the website’s articles.
Premium Features
<ul>
<li>Includes a wide number of images repositories (like:WordPress media library, Flickr, Instagram and Googel Images)</li>
<li>Includes additional galleries designs (like: carousel and Classic Gallery )</li>
</ul>
Demo of Premium Version of Plugin
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Requirements:
The requirements depend of the images repository, some repositories require an API Key, or Client ID
<h3>Using Smart Image Gallery</h3>
Smart Image Gallery is an easy and intuitive plugin. Before search, and insertion of the images in the articles, will be necessary activate the images repositories. Go to the settings page of plugin ( from the menu option “Settings > Smart Image Gallery” ), and activate the available images repositories (the number of images repositories depends of plugin’s version installed on your WordPress ). Each image sources has its own settings options ( for example: Flickr requires an API Key, and Instagram a Client ID)
After activate the images repositories, go to the article, and press the Smart Image Gallery icon over the content’s editor. The action opens an popup window with a search box. Type the search criteria and press the “search” button, or simply press the carriage return key. The plugin displays the images available for each images repository. If the resulting images are not appropriated for the article, the plugin displays an “+” button at right of each repository, to get additional images with the same search criteria. Each image has associated a checkbox to be selected and inserted in the article. One time have decided the images to insert, go to the galleries design tab, and select the gallery to display (the available galleries, and its options, depend of plugin’s version installed in your WordPress )
The plugin inserts a shortcode in the article, doing easy remove an image, or modify the gallery’s settings.

Smart Image Gallery

Smart Image Gallery allows to insert images, and pictures, in your blog, directly from the WordPress media library, or eternal images repositories...

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A simple, no-frills solution to display a Google Photos album on your site using a widget or a shortcode. There is only one layout option: grid. There is only one required attribute: album url. That’s it, that easy. <a href="https://josheli.com/knob/2017/11/21/simple-google-photos-a-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">See a demo and read more about the plugin</a>. The code is also <a href="https://github.com/datvance/simple-google-photos-grid" rel="nofollow ugc">available on Github</a>.
<h3>Notes</h3>
Your album on Google Photos must be “public”, which means you need to go into Google Photos on the web and set “Sharing options” to on, i.e. “Anyone with the link can see these photos and the people who’ve been invited or joined.”
Requires curl or similar to fetch the photo urls.
No support is provided. Probably no features will be added. You are free to ask, or to fork. Pull requests accepted.
<h3>Widget</h3>
Go to Appearance -> Widgets and a new widget named Simple Google Photos Grid should be available to use. Drag to your desired widget area and configure.
<ul>
<li>Title: Heading of the widget on your site. Default to empty.</li>
<li>Album URL: The full URL to your public gallery on Google Photos. URL must use one of the following domains: ‘photos.app.goo.gl’ or ‘photos.google.com’. Ideally should be the short, “shared” link (such as https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1z).</li>
<li>Num Photos to Show: Even numbers probably work best. There’s a maximum number, not sure what it is, but it’s pretty low.</li>
<li>Num Photos per Row: How many photos to show per row? Probably some number that works well with Num Photos.</li>
<li>Cache Interval (in minutes): How long to cache photo URLs before checking the album on Google again. 0 for no cache.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
Place the shortcode in a post, page or theme. 
 [simple_google_photos_grid album-url=”https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1″]
Available attributes are: 
– album-url: (required) the url to a public Google Photos album, domain must be one of ‘photos.app.goo.gl’ or ‘photos.google.com’ 
– number-photos: (optional) number of photos to display, defaults to 4 
– number-photos-per-row: (optional) number of photos per row, defaults to 2 
– cache-interval: (optional) length, in minutes, to cache the photo urls retrieved from Google, defaults to 15
<pre><code>[simple_google_photos_grid album-url="https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1" number-photos="6" number-photos-per-row="3" cache-interval="120"]
</code></pre>

Simple Google Photos Grid


I am not sure why this plugin has not gotten more attention. I have searched for a similar plug that would take third-party images (Google Photos) and create a gallery.  Few offer it and those that do, are quite proud of their plugin ($$$).   Yes, the gallery isn't great and I wish it would open the images in a lightbox, but I am extremely please with the plugin. My server is getting approching capacity and this plugin keeps a gazillion photos off of it. Thanks for the plugin. I sure wish you'd consider updating it!






Not perfect, but it does the job ... free also!

Provides a widget and shortcode to display photos from a public Google Photos album in a simple grid.

Smart Image Gallery vs Simple Google Photos Grid