Cannot display Google Album

It doesn’t look like your album id is correct. Where did you get your album id?

Also, if this is a Google Photos album (i.e. created after Picasa was retired), your access is highly unlikely to be public, and you will have better luck setting access='public,private,protected'.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Sayontan Sinha.

This morning blew away all previous ‘code’ and started from scratch using this URL:
https://aquoid.com/plugins/photonic/picasa/picasa-albums/

Used your code:
[gallery type='picasa' user_id='sayontan' access='public,protected,private' layout='random']
on my test page (changed the user_id) and worked straight out! This does display ALL albums.

Then made a change to the short code specifying a sungle album id:
[gallery type='picasa' user_id='[email protected]' albumid='6303927593541070049' max_results='5' more='more' access='public,protected,private' layout='masonry' ]

Behaves properly – great – exactly what want!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW getting the albumid from Photonic ? Helpers ? Picasa/Google Photos ? Picasa / Google Photos Album ID Finder
Really a slick tool!

Now – do have a problem –

If I add a second album id:
[gallery type='picasa' user_id='[email protected]' albumid='6303927593541070049, 6302480954589190849' max_results='5' more='more' access='public,protected,private' layout='masonry' ]

I get the following three warning messages and no albums:

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<‘ not found in C:\Websites\www.gallerypro.dev\wp-content\plugins\photonic\extensions\Photonic_Picasa_Processor.php on line 246

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Invalid entity id: 6303927593541070049, 6302480954589190849 in C:\Websites\www.gallerypro.dev\wp-content\plugins\photonic\extensions\Photonic_Picasa_Processor.php on line 246

Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in C:\Websites\www.gallerypro.dev\wp-content\plugins\photonic\extensions\Photonic_Picasa_Processor.php on line 246

How can I, if It is permitted, display the content of 2 (or more) albums?

Thanks – Ken

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by kencooperjr.

Instead of saying albumid='6303927593541070049, 6302480954589190849', say filter='6303927593541070049, 6302480954589190849', like the second example on the documentation page.

This – does not seem to work. If I put two album IDs in the filter tag – only the first one will display. If I swap the IDs then I get nothing. If I put the second or first ID by itself in an albumid tag they will display.

The Add Media –> Photonic –> picasa doc, when one creates the shortcut, says:

If “Display” is “Albums” and you provide a comma-separated list of values here, only these entities will be pulled. Useful if you want to display thumbnails for certain albums only, ignored if an album id is provided above

Thanks – Ken

Do you have a URL that I can see?

Also, I didn’t notice the space after the comma in the filter earlier. Can you remove that and retry?

Unfortunately, this is a local development. The next week I will be putting it live so I can send you an URL then.

Removed the space – no difference.
If I add more than one AlbumID to the filter tag only the first album ‘cover image’ will show and no other photos are available except that first album.

Bottom line this does do what I want. If I want to display more than one album I can always do the following and show one album with a line between each album. Not as clean as having three album cover images and then selecting the album to display.

[gallery type='picasa' user_id='[email protected]' albumid='6302490160689670561'  access='public,protected,private' layout='masonry'  ]
</hr>
[gallery type='picasa' user_id='[email protected]' albumid='6303194787069207905'  access='public,protected,private' layout='masonry'  ]
</hr>
[gallery type='picasa' user_id='[email protected]' albumid='6302483976009486625'  access='public,protected,private' layout='masonry'  ]

If I add more than one AlbumID to the filter tag only the first album ‘cover image’ will show and no other photos are available except that first album.

The display of the cover photos is the intended behaviour, but it should show the cover photos for all albums you are listing, as per the example.

The way this works is, if you are trying to display a group of albums, you will see one thumbnail for each album. If you are trying to display individual albums, you will see all the photos within that album.

The default behaviour upon clicking on an album’s cover thumbnail is that the plugin will open up a lightbox with the photos in that album. You can change this by going to Photonic → Settings → Generic Options → Overlaid Popup Panel and checking the option Enable Interim Popup for Album Thumbnails. This will show all photos in your album in an overlaid panel when you click on the thumbnail.

Once you have a live site I can take a look and see what is going wrong. What WP theme are you using? If it is a free WP theme I can try troubleshooting. Can you also provide me with the exact shortcode you have for the filter?