Google Photos embed Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

Open the google photo site (https://photos.google.com/)
Choose an embedded image you want to blog in Google Photos.
Click the Share button, you get a shareable link.
Copy the shared link (https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx) and paste it into the blog content.

Notice

AMP support must be using Automattic AMP plugin or theme template with pre_amp_render_post action hook.
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.

Customize

It is displaying the OGP data as a caption.
The size of the image, alignment, captions, etc. specified in the parameter.

General Parameter

width : pixsels (width=”400″)
height : pixsels (height=”400″)
align : alignnone / aliginleft / aligncenter / alignright (align=”aligncenter”)
caption : caption text. If the non-display caption=”false” set.
type : gif (default jpg) If possible, displayed in a GIF animation format.

e.g. [embed width=”320″ height=”150″ align=”alignright” type=”gif” caption=”xxxxxxx”]https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx[/embed]

Special Parameter (picopt)

w : width pixsels
h : height pixsels
s : long side pixsels
r : rotete image 90/180/270
c : Trimming from the center of the image
p : Trimming centered on the person or the like in the image
no : Meybe. If possible, video->GIF animation conversion

e.g. [embed picopt=”w320-h150-r90-p”]https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx[/embed]

※ Parameters of picopt is unofficial. (estimated from picasa image customization options)

日本語の説明

Installation

Upload the google-photos-embed folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

Frequently Asked Questions

Installation Instructions

Upload the google-photos-embed folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress

Review feed

Brandon Moeller

9/3/2016

Just what I was looking for

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!

M66B

11/12/2016

Simple and effective

Nice work.

Seth Carstens

3/31/2017

Copy share link - paste - album

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

Screenshots

Get Google Photos share url. Copy & Paste embed.

Changelog

1.0.1

2017-9-8
fix: When allow_url_fopen is off, since getimagesize becomes Warning, rewrite to code that does not use getimagesize.

1.0.0

2017-9-7
Add AMP support

0.9.3

2017-7-26
fix Support Forum : Use strpos instead of preg_match? https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-strpos-instead-of-preg_match/

0.9.2

2017-7-18
change google photos shared short url https://goo.gl/photos/xxxxxxx -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx

0.9.1

2015-12-24
Add a link to the Google photos page in the image.
If possible, add the option type = “gif” to embed the video in GIF animation format.

0.9.0

2015-11-06 Release

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