Plugin info

Total downloads: 156,421
Active installs: 900
Total reviews: 42
Average rating: 3.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 9/6/2023 (846 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 7/15/2011 (14 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.0.1
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.2.7
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 846 days ago • 42 reviews

26/100

Is Google Photos Gallery with Shortcodes abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 846 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.0.1
Tested up to: 6.2.7
Requires PHP: f

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Description

The best Google Photos Gallery plugin to display your Google Photo Albums on your WordPress blog. It is fully responsive and looks awesome. Google Photo Gallery is based on Google Photos API. Use the plugin to display your Google Photo Albums on your WordPress blog. Using the shortcodes it is simple to embed your albums. Images in album are displayed in a lightbox.

Credits

  • Lightbox2 (http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2)

Installation

  1. Unzip into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Make your settings, Admin->Google Photos->Settings
  4. Use the ‘Display Album’ shortcode [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos] on a page of your choice.
  5. To display the album’s images place the shortcode, [cws_gpp_images_in_album_gphotos] on a page
  6. Update the shortcode used in step 4 to include the result_page option. [cws_gpp_albums_gphotos results_page=’page-slug-here’]

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I don’t want to display private (unlisted) albums?

Simple select “Public” option from the ‘Show which albums’ dropdown menu.

Does this work with Google Photos?

Yes this plugin works with images and albums stored and created in Google Photos too.

Can Users Download the Original Image File

Yes this is an option on the Pro version

The Cache Doesn’t Seem to be Working

Log in to you web host and check the cache/ folder is writable by the web server.

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Screenshots

  1. An example of Google Photos Album Grid View.

    An example of Google Photos Album Grid View.

  2. This is an example of the lightbox displaying photo you clicked on.

    This is an example of the lightbox displaying photo you clicked on.

Changelog

4.0.3

  • Improvement: Pro Only – Justified Image Grid
  • Security Fix: Sanitized paramaters

4.0.2

  • Bug Fix: Lightbox Image Size was not being set when activated

4.0.1

  • Removed obsolete code

4.0

  • A rewrite of the plugin to support Google Photos API (Google deprecated Google Picasa API)