Google Photos question

It displays them in the order that they’re displayed when I go to photos.google.com which is not correct. I can see no way to change the order of the albums at google photos. Does your plugin allow me to change the order that the albums display?

This is a limitation with Google’s API rather than any plugin. Google’s API doesn’t allow for any type of sorting. So in that matter Photonic is no different from other plugins.

Another question – Does your plugin display the captions that I have on my google photos?

Yes. For future reference, there are multiple linked demos on Photonic’s page right here on www.ads-software.com :)! They do show the whole spectrum of capabilities of the plugin, so feel free to check them out.

PS: Since this is not a support question I am marking it as such.

Thanks for the reply. Google really dropped the ball with this new API in my opinion. I might look at Flickr or something else. Usually Google makes everything so easy, but this is a mess.

The API is not that bad, but it defies common-sense on several fronts:

• It gives you short-lived “redirect” URLs, so you cannot cache your HTML output, because the redirect URLs cease to be valid after a point of time.
• Search by text-strings and sort are not permitted, while every big-name provider offers those.
• Video support is lame; you cannot play videos in a lightbox with native features, so I had to come up with a workaround.
• The API query (100 photos or 50 albums in one shot) and rate limits (10,000 calls per day) are among the lowest I have seen.

The API is easy to code for, though, once you have done the security implementation. It is also a whole lot better than the legacy PicasaWeb API. And then there is also the matter of free storage limits.

If you are looking for a replacement I would suggest SmugMug, since Flickr put in a 1000 photos limit on its free accounts after it got acquired by SmugMug. SmugMug’s API is pretty solid, and it is good at keeping the number of calls low.