KB Easy PicasaWeb 1.3.3

There are many PicasaWeb plugins for WordPress; I counted 8 of them before writing this plugin, and tried using several. (There are now over 50!) Unfortunately, most of them are annoying. Either they have poor documentation, or they require you to insert funny things into your posts, or they are slow, or whatever.KB Easy PicasaWeb is the easiest, fastest, most visitor-friendly Picasa plugin for WordPress. * Easiest: This plugin does not require you to insert funny markup into your posts--all you need is a link to a Picasa album, and the plugin does the rest. * Fastest: The plugin uses efficient caching to keep your blog's pageloads quick. * Most visitor friendly: The plugin uses PHP, not javascript, so it won't cause errors or annoying movement when loading. (If you've used JS-based Picasa plugins, you'll know what I mean.) Even your grandmother can view your photos if you use this plugin.How it WorksI wrote KB Easy PicasaWeb so that there would be an easy, fast way to embed PicasaWeb albums into pages and posts. This is all you do: 1. Download and activate the plugin 2. Write a post (or edit an old one). Somewhere within it, create a link to a PicasaWeb album (on a line by itself). 3. Done. This plugin finds your link, recognizes it as a PicasaWeb link, and converts it into a nicely-formatted series of photos (with captions).Want the photos to be larger or smaller? No problem--just go to Settings->KB Picasa and change the size.Why it's QuickThe first time you view a post with photos in it, you'll notice a short delay (less than 5 seconds, typically) while the plugin queries PicasaWeb to request the album information. But unlike many other Picasa plugins, the delay occurs only once--the results get cached locally by the plugin for future use.See a Demo * If you want to see how the admin page looks, view the screenshots. * If you want to see how the photos look, check out the photos category on my blog.SupportIf you post your support questions as comments below, I probably won't see them. If this documentation doesn't answer your questions, then post your support questions on a post in the KB Easy PicasaWeb category on my blog.Installation : 1. IF USING WP 2.7 OR HIGHER, use the automatic installer. OTHERWISE, follow the usual download/unzip/upload/activate routine (after unzipping, upload the kb-easy-picasaweb folder, which should contain three PHP files and maybe some other garbage, to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory). 2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. 3. Optional: Go to the Settings->KB Picasa page to adjust the plugin's settings. 4. Create a new page or post on your site (or edit an existing one). Create a link to a PicasaWeb album on a line by itself. 5. View the page (or post) and admire all the photos.You have several settings available at the options page, including * Image size * Whether to display captions * Whether to link photos to the full-size version * Whether to display photos in one column or twoLicenseThis plugin is provided "as is" and without any warranty or expectation of function. I'll probably try to help you if you ask nicely, but I can't promise anything. You are welcome to use this plugin and modify it however you want, as long as you give credit where it is due.But please don't redistribute this plugin from anywhere other than right here. Unless months go by and it looks like I've completely abandoned this thing, let's not get forks going without a darn good reason; that just confuses people. But send me your improvements and I'll add them in.

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Platforms:	PHP
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