April 30th, 2009
Categorized under: Picasna for Wordpress
Picasna 1.4 Release Notes
Completely redesigned the cover graphics. Now it’s stunning and informative.
To switch to the new design, please check Picasna Settings on your wordpress dashboard.
Loading ...And now the plugin looks much better on “small” screens (less than 1280px wide).
The Widget is also updated.
Working hard on Flickr and MySpace versions
Buy me a beer if you like it 
Comments
Is it possible not to show the title on the album picture on the blog but still keep the title in the flash gallery?
If not, where can I download V1.3 aggain to reset my gallery??
Friiitz
April 30th, 2009
if there is option to disable this — would be good; sometimes the album title is too long, causing messy album cover. thanks.
z gansad
April 30th, 2009
Ok, in today’s update I’ll add the choice of designs and an option to show the title on the cover.
Thanks for your feedback!
Igor Barbashin
April 30th, 2009
Update is there!
) go to Picasna Settings and change the badge type and set to show cover title if you want.
Now by default it’s going to look the way it used to (no title and green ribbon in the corner).
To switch to the new design (which is much cooler according to my taste
Igor Barbashin
May 1st, 2009
cool! again.. super.
z gansad
May 1st, 2009
hey! it doesn’t show like ur example when i create a new post.
Your Album Title
it only shows all the images in my blog by a line but not the sample you show us.. may i know wad’s happening?
bb_blog
May 2nd, 2009
bb_blog, maybe you have another picasaweb plugin installed on your blog? If so, try to deactivate other plugins.
Igor Barbashin
May 3rd, 2009
I installed the widget and had it working perfectly, then something happened to the album cover. The photos will display well but the cover doesn’t look right. I tried different settings (new/old badge, hide/show) and nothing changed. I also uninstalled other picasaweb plugins.
Any ideas?
http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/05/magnolias-of-hoyt-arboretum/
Liz
May 4th, 2009
I have a fix for your needing allow_url_fopen set to on. This uses cURL instead, which doesn’t have the same security problems.
Insert this function into picasna-functions.php:
function _picasna_getalbumsxml($url) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$xml_raw = curl_exec($ch);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml_raw);
return $xml;
}
Then change
$albumsxml = simplexml_load_file($feedURL);
to
$albumsxml = _picasna_getalbumsxml($feedURL);
Voila! That problem goes away without you having to nag your system administrator to open up the feature that allows most PHP exploits.
Unfortunately, I’m still having other problems – the flash app simply says “Sorry. Something wrong. Please check the entered data.”
I’m going to try using Picasna Widget, but in the meantime I thought it would be courteous to post that bit. Hopefully it’s helpful for you; if not… hey, I tried
Jonathan
May 5th, 2009
Okay, just tried Picasna Widget… same problem. Do you think it’s on Google’s end?
Jonathan
May 5th, 2009
Hey Igor, why does putting http://picasaweb.google.com/username/albumname1 on one line then http://picasaweb.google.com/username/albumname2 on a second line then http://picasaweb.google.com/username/albumname3 only render the first one? Can you explain how it works? I’m really trying to get all my albums on one page.
McPace
May 5th, 2009
Turns out this can’t pull PNGs. Go figure. Anyway, there’s still something preventing Picasna the Plugin from working. I dunno what it is. The widget works just fine.
Jonathan
May 5th, 2009
Thanks for this. I appreciate your prompt response and your willingness to troubleshoot. I added the code and made the change you suggested. The first time I looked at the page, the album cover was perfect. But now something is wrong again. Why would it be so inconsistent?
Liz
May 6th, 2009
Jonathan, thanks a lot for your help. For sure I’ll include the code you provided in the next update.
I will look into the PNG problem. It might be a google issue. Will see.
Igor Barbashin
May 7th, 2009
Liz, I see what you mean. Unfortunately there’s no choice of designs for the widget at the moment, but shortly I’ll release a big update that should solve it.
The new version will also work with flickr.
Igor Barbashin
May 7th, 2009
McPace, if you’re in HTML mode while editing your post, try to add an extra line break after each link. It should help.
Igor Barbashin
May 7th, 2009
We just did an update to your plugin. It appears this is still broken on PHP Version 4. Do you know when you might consider having your code work on both versions of PHP?
Thanks for the help. We are looking forward to being able to use your plug-in.
Great job,
Bernie
Bernie
May 7th, 2009
Awesome plug in, I like!
I’ve also go a question, the larger my picassa album is, the longer it takes to open my WordPress pages
for exemple:
p=1460 is working fine (39 pics)
p=105 isn’t showing or maybe after a while (151 pics)
(if it’s preloading pics, it could only preload a page or a bit more… that’s an idea)
thanks for you help
gaston2lyon
May 7th, 2009
I’m using this with more than 300 pics; I dont experience considerable lags to preload images or open the wordpress post/page.
z gansad
May 7th, 2009
Hi Igor,
I really like your plugin but I’m having a lot of trouble getting it to work. Please see my site for an example of the problem I’m getting
http://skytoeye.com
This is the link that I’m inserting into the post…
LINK
John
May 7th, 2009
I just upgraded to 1.4.1 and have the problem that the cover image is only shown for the upper half.
Gerjan
May 8th, 2009
Looks great! But I’m having a problem on my wordpress blog hosted at Godaddy. Here’s the error that is returned when I load the post after following your instructions (i’ve removed my username which appears in the error message):
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in D:\Hosting\3142369\html\blog\wp-content\plugins\picasna\picasna-functions.php on line 84
Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/xxxxxx?kind=album&thumbsize=144c) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in D:\Hosting\3142369\html\blog\wp-content\plugins\picasna\picasna-functions.php on line 84
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity “http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/xxxxxx?kind=album&thumbsize=144c” in D:\Hosting\3142369\html\blog\wp-content\plugins\picasna\picasna-functions.php on line 84
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in D:\Hosting\3142369\html\blog\wp-content\plugins\picasna\picasna-functions.php on line 86
Greg
May 9th, 2009
Quoting Gerjan: I just upgraded to 1.4.1 and have the problem that the cover image is only shown for the upper half.
In Firefox it works fine, but in IE7 I have the same problem.
Schuns
May 9th, 2009
Sorry, sometimes it does work in IE7, after refreshing sometimes. But most of the time in IE7 the cover image is only shown for the upper half.
Schuns
May 9th, 2009
hi there.. is there a way to remove my username on the Gallery?
GandangPinay
May 9th, 2009
Schuns, yes, it might be an IE7 lag. Can’t reproduce it on my machine.
Igor Barbashin
May 10th, 2009
Greg, it’ll be fixed in the next update. Probably on May 14th. If it can’t wait, please try the Widget version.
Igor Barbashin
May 10th, 2009
GandangPinay, not yet, but I’ll include this option in the next update, thanks for the responce.
Also I think there should be an option to click on the nickname and go to the Picasa Web Albums. So visitors can download photos.
Igor Barbashin
May 10th, 2009
Thanks for the fast reply Igor… I’m going to wait for your next update, hope that it won’t take long
BTW, it is much better if we can edit the username part (replace it with something else instead of just removing it)
About downloading photos, that a great idea. But unlisted Album should not be downlodable, or at least leave the options to us blog admins
GandangPinay
May 10th, 2009
I’ve been looking for a Picasa plugin just like this, but I can’t get it to work. I place the link and an image appears on the page, but no photos. It links to the gallery and shows spots for photos, but won’t load. The gallery is public. Here it is:
http://www.troop313.net/about-us/test-page
Ideas?
Craig
May 11th, 2009
Can it be aligned so it is in the center of a post?
Kashim
May 11th, 2009
Great Plugin, i love it – it simple and looks good.
2 things though :
1. Images over 800 don’t show in IE, i’ve seen this is a known issue… any chance this will be resolved? and if i use a larger image setting will the image shrink to fit the actual screen size of the user?
2. how do i style the thumbs entered into my posts with css? say if i want to move them around differently or add some more visual styles to them?
thanks for this great plug!
Ronen Bekerman
May 13th, 2009
i downloaded, use on localhost, it ok, but on free host, it’s error, not the same.
Help me please!
trids
May 14th, 2009
hi. i have a domain name with an abnormal symbol in it, a nordic sign “æ”, skællen.dk. Your plugin does not seem to work in my WP installation. DO you think it could be because of this?
kjetil
May 14th, 2009
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your plugin. It’s really usefull and user-friendly !!
I’ve tried a lot of plugins before yours and it’s really the best !
Is it possible to have an autoplay like slide show ? (or having the ability to slide with next and previous keyboard)
Thanks
Amélie
May 14th, 2009
Hi. Great-looking plugin. It works fine on my local WAMP development installation, but on my LAMP live server it gets the cover and shows the title, but then appears to get stuck on counting the number of photos (or something) and doesn’t allow one to get into the gallery. Any ideas?
Marc
May 17th, 2009
I also would appreciate a fix for IE and pictures greater than 800px. Because nearly all pictures in my blog are in 1024×768. Or is there maybe a workaround?
Eike
May 18th, 2009
Hi,
First of all, I would like to thank you for making this great plugin!
Second, I think it would be nice in the next release of the plugin to let us choose the size of the thumbnail before displaying the gallery, 72px is too small and 144px is too large for my page.
It would be great also to choose a different color, white and black are not enough.
Regards, Alexandre
Alexandre
May 18th, 2009
Eike, I just found out that it’s a google’s restriction. Image sizes larger than 800px are not embeddable. Firefox and Chrome don’t care about that, bot some browsers do (one of them is IE).
I see just one solution — to cache big images on picasna server, but I’m not ready for this yet as it requires dedicated server.
Igor Barbashin
May 19th, 2009
Alexandre, I agree with you about thumbnail sizes. It’s coming in one of the next updates.
Igor Barbashin
May 19th, 2009
Marc, try to update the plugin.
Igor Barbashin
May 19th, 2009
Thanks for your reply.
Isn’t there another solution? Maybe some browser dependent. One can choose 1024 and for IE it would use internally 800. Kind of an workaround so it is safe that everybody sees at least 800px pictures. Or is that to hard to implement?
Regards
Eike
Eike
May 19th, 2009
hi,sory
I’m using picasna 1.4 Unfortunately, I’m still having other problems – the flash app simply says “Sorry. Something wrong. Please check the entered data.”
this my site:
http://muhayyijulasywaq.web.id/galeri/
with album called ‘tes’
how to fix it????
fikri
May 19th, 2009
fikri, please upgrade to the latest version. It will help
Igor Barbashin
May 19th, 2009
This plugin fucking ROCKS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
leanne
May 20th, 2009
Hi, reacting on Schuns and my earlier comment:
I have the problem of showing only the upper half of the cover image. I have tested and have the problem more specific.
I use the plugin Auto-hyperlink URLs. Which generates real URLs on the fly based on text-urls pasted in posts. Until version Picasna 1.3, this plugin and Picasna worked good together: also on the fly generated URLs were recognized by Picasna. After 1.4 not anymore.
Solution would be executing Picasna after the Auto-hyperlink plugin……….
Gerjan
May 26th, 2009
sorry about the post above. I realized i’m in the wrong thread. I will post this same issue on the v1.5 thread. Thanks!
cjovilla
May 28th, 2009
Hi _ liking this and got it to work immediately. I need help taking a step farther. I have copied the html code generated through the post and added it to a sidebar that doesn’t include post or page text. It actually works great! But now that I am looking at the code and breaking it up into little pieces I am desperate to remove the picture count – either the green ribbon or the white box.My client is insisting these be removed and I don’t love them either. Cab you please tell me which snippet of code to remove so this will go away? Please?
stacey
May 29th, 2009
stacey, I’ll add this option into the embed-generator shortly.
Thanks for the response.
Igor Barbashin
May 30th, 2009
Thanks for the widget, it is awesome !
How to execute the embedded code from the widget without clicking on it? it is possible?
pollote
January 2nd, 2010
Is it possible to modify the settings so the gallery is not full screen but rather limited to the browser width and height?
Ryan
April 28th, 2010
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sandy
August 3rd, 2010