Jacob N. Breetvelt

<p>This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia content management and display system.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Any number of albums that contain any type of multimedia file as well as sub albums</li>
<li>Full control over the display sizes, responsive as well as static</li>
<li>Full control over links from any type of image</li>
<li>Full control over metadata: exif, iptc can be used by keywords in item descriptions</li>
<li>Up to 10 custom defined meta data fields, for albums and for media items</li>
<li>Front-end uploads</li>
<li>Bulk imports</li>
<li>Built-in lightbox overlay system</li>
<li>Built-in Google Maps to display maps based on the photo gpx exif data</li>
<li>Built-in search functions on a.o. keywords and tags</li>
<li>A customizable rating system</li>
<li>Commenting system</li>
<li>Moderate user uploads and comments</li>
<li>Configurable email notification system</li>
<li>20 widgets a.o. upload, slideshow, photo of the day, top rated and commented items and many more</li>
<li>Supports Cloudinary cloud storage service</li>
<li>Supports Fotomoto print service</li>
<li>Required maintenace is fully executed by background processes (cron jobs)</li>
<li>Extended error/event logging system</li>
<li>Extended documentation site: https://wppa.nl/</li>
</ul>
<p>Plugin Admin Features:</p>
<p>You can find the plugin admin section under Menu Photo Albums on the admin screen.</p>
<ul>
<li>Albums: Create and manage Albums.</li>
<li>Upload: To upload photos to an album you created.</li>
<li>Import: To bulk import items to an album that are previously been ftp’d.</li>
<li>Moderate: Change status of pending</li>
<li>Export: To export albums</li>
<li>Settings: To control the various settings to customize your needs.</li>
<li>photo of the day widget settings</li>
<li>Help & Info: Credits and link to the documentation site</li>
</ul>
<p>Translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dutch translation by OpaJaap himself (<a href="http://www.opajaap.nl" rel="nofollow ugc">Opa Jaap’s Weblog</a>)</li>
<li>Slovak translation by Branco Radenovich (<a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/user-reviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebHostingGeeks.com</a>)</li>
<li>Polish translation by Maciej Matysiak</li>
<li>Ukranian translation by Michael Yunat (<a href="http://getvoip.com/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">http://getvoip.com</a>)</li>
<li>Italian translation by Giacomo Mazzullo (<a href="http://gidibao.net" rel="nofollow ugc">http://gidibao.net</a> & <a href="http://charmingpress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://charmingpress.com</a>)</li>
<li>German translation by Stefan Eggers</li>
<li>Portuguese translation by Eric Sornoso (<a href="https://Mealfan.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://Mealfan.com</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<ul>
<li>When you leave a comment on a photo or other media item on this site, we send your name, email address, IP address and comment text to the server.</li>
<li>When you enter a rating on a photo or other media item on this site, we send your (login)name or IP address and your rating to the server.</li>
<li>When you upload a photo or other media item on this site, we send your name to the server.</li>
<li>If the photo contains EXIF or IPTC data, this data may – dependant of the configuration – be saved on the server.</li>
<li>If the photo contains GPX location data, this data will be saved on the server.</li>
<li>If visit the site, the pages you visit, the photos you watch and your IP address will be saved on the server for statistical purposes in your session information. This information will be anonimized after one hour and removed after 24 hours.</li>
</ul>
<h3>About and Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>WP Photo Album Plus is extended with many new features and is maintained by J.N. Breetvelt, ( http://www.opajaap.nl/ ) a.k.a. OpaJaap</li>
<li>Thanx to R.J. Kaplan for WP Photo Album 1.5.1, the basis of this plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Licence</h3>
<p>WP Photo Album is released under the GNU GPL licence. ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html )</p>


WP Photo Album Plus

This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia cms and display system.

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.

WP Photo Album Plus vs Simple Google Photos Grid