josheli

<p>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>.</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>Requires curl or similar to fetch the photo urls.</p>
<p>No support is provided. Probably no features will be added. You are free to ask, or to fork. Pull requests accepted.</p>
<h3>Widget</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p>Place the shortcode in a post, page or theme.<br />
    [simple_google_photos_grid album-url=”https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1″]</p>
<p>Available attributes are:<br />
– album-url: (required) the url to a public Google Photos album, domain must be one of ‘photos.app.goo.gl’ or ‘photos.google.com’<br />
– number-photos: (optional) number of photos to display, defaults to 4<br />
– number-photos-per-row: (optional) number of photos per row, defaults to 2<br />
– cache-interval: (optional) length, in minutes, to cache the photo urls retrieved from Google, defaults to 15</p>
<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.

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.

Simple Google Photos Grid vs Google Photos embed