Comments on: Shashin 2.1 – Easier Steps for Displaying All Album Photos http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/ Mike Toppa's Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-21249 Mike Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:35:28 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-21249 Hi Neil - I spent some time the other day looking into this, and it's actually a somewhat difficult problem to solve. I can have Shashin use an album's authkey to access the photo feed for an album, so that part is no problem. The problem is that I also need to access your Picasa user feed that has metadata about all your albums. Unlisted albums don't show up in the public version of that feed, even if I have an authkey. To access that feed, I'll need to give Shashin the ability to log in to Picasa as you. This is possible with the Google API, but it'll be a fair amount of work. I just posted the beta version of Shashin 2.3. I'll take a shot at adding this capability in Shashin 2.4. Hi Neil – I spent some time the other day looking into this, and it’s actually a somewhat difficult problem to solve. I can have Shashin use an album’s authkey to access the photo feed for an album, so that part is no problem. The problem is that I also need to access your Picasa user feed that has metadata about all your albums. Unlisted albums don’t show up in the public version of that feed, even if I have an authkey. To access that feed, I’ll need to give Shashin the ability to log in to Picasa as you. This is possible with the Google API, but it’ll be a fair amount of work. I just posted the beta version of Shashin 2.3. I’ll take a shot at adding this capability in Shashin 2.4.

]]> By: Neil http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-20947 Neil Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:25:22 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20947 Hi Mike, loving Shashin. Any update on the unlisted album support? I'm trying to add an unlisted album to my "Random" pool and it won't add in the Tools menu. ("Failed to add album. This was probably a bad connection trying to read the RSS feed.") I'm aware that the authkey would be exposed, but that's fine with me in this case. Thanks for any help! Hi Mike, loving Shashin. Any update on the unlisted album support? I’m trying to add an unlisted album to my “Random” pool and it won’t add in the Tools menu. (“Failed to add album. This was probably a bad connection trying to read the RSS feed.”)

I’m aware that the authkey would be exposed, but that’s fine with me in this case. Thanks for any help!

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-20882 Mike Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:00:10 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20882 Hi Milan - thanks for using Shashin. The site you linked to is using Lightbox. Highslide can accommodate anything that we want to put in the caption. But Picasa comments are not included in the RSS feed, so there's no way for Shashin to access the comments. Picasa also doesn't have a ratings system. Adding a rating system of my own would be a pretty big job (the ratings plugins designed for WordPress are meant for rating posts, not pictures, so I wouldn't be able to use those plugins). Hi Milan – thanks for using Shashin. The site you linked to is using Lightbox. Highslide can accommodate anything that we want to put in the caption. But Picasa comments are not included in the RSS feed, so there’s no way for Shashin to access the comments. Picasa also doesn’t have a ratings system. Adding a rating system of my own would be a pretty big job (the ratings plugins designed for WordPress are meant for rating posts, not pictures, so I wouldn’t be able to use those plugins).

]]> By: Milan Stosic http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-20862 Milan Stosic Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:51:42 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20862 Hi Mike, I'm using your plugin and I'm very satisfied with it. You've done a great job! Now, after 9-months of using I'm planning to improve my gallery to add rating or comments, but since I liked Highslide plugin I thought it would be imposible. But, yesterday I found some galery which has something like highslide (maybe it isn't highslide), but have rating stars and comments (page gallery is http://www.clubotheque.com/fotografije_&_video.75.html?galleryId=437#). Is there any way to add something like this in your plugin, since Picasaweb has comments and there some wp plugins for rating? Hi Mike,

I’m using your plugin and I’m very satisfied with it. You’ve done a great job!

Now, after 9-months of using I’m planning to improve my gallery to add rating or comments, but since I liked Highslide plugin I thought it would be imposible.

But, yesterday I found some galery which has something like highslide (maybe it isn’t highslide), but have rating stars and comments (page gallery is http://www.clubotheque.com/fotografije_&_video.75.html?galleryId=437#).

Is there any way to add something like this in your plugin, since Picasaweb has comments and there some wp plugins for rating?

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-20477 Mike Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:50:02 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20477 Hi Theo - I'm fixing this in the next version. You won't need a page with the salbumphotos tag anymore. Hi Theo – I’m fixing this in the next version. You won’t need a page with the salbumphotos tag anymore.

]]> By: Theo http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-2/#comment-20306 Theo Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:49:11 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20306 Hi Mike, Shashin was just what I was looking for. One question though: how can I make a page that displays only the albums I want to display? If I always need to make a page with the [salbumphotos] tag, that page will be visible and still show all the albums I have added to shashin. Theo Hi Mike,

Shashin was just what I was looking for. One question though: how can I make a page that displays only the albums I want to display? If I always need to make a page with the [salbumphotos] tag, that page will be visible and still show all the albums I have added to shashin.
Theo

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-20084 Mike Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:47:37 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20084 That's interesting. It's been probably a year since I tried using an unlisted album with Shashin (I don't have any unlisted albums of my own). At the time, Shashin couldn't add the album because I hadn't designed it to handle the authorization key in the album URL. Maybe something has changed with Picasa since then. I'll experiment again with making one of my albums unlisted (I probably won't get to it for a week or two though - I'm working on finishing up Shashin 2.3). That’s interesting. It’s been probably a year since I tried using an unlisted album with Shashin (I don’t have any unlisted albums of my own). At the time, Shashin couldn’t add the album because I hadn’t designed it to handle the authorization key in the album URL. Maybe something has changed with Picasa since then. I’ll experiment again with making one of my albums unlisted (I probably won’t get to it for a week or two though – I’m working on finishing up Shashin 2.3).

]]> By: Ray Masa http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-20078 Ray Masa Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:48:13 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20078 Hi Mike, I looked at the link you sent for Google Picasa and yes, all my albums are set to be unlisted. When I am log into picasa, I see the little orange image with a locked lock on it next to all my albums. But I am able to see all the images from picasa on my website using Shasin. Unless I am seeing them because Google has cached them, I don’t know. I checked the source code of my site, and I don’t see any key or for that matter even picasa or google being mentioned. I will wait a few days to see if the pictures disappeared because they are cached. Will let you know if that happens. Ray Hi Mike,

I looked at the link you sent for Google Picasa and yes, all my albums are set to be unlisted. When I am log into picasa, I see the little orange image with a locked lock on it next to all my albums. But I am able to see all the images from picasa on my website using Shasin.

Unless I am seeing them because Google has cached them, I don’t know. I checked the source code of my site, and I don’t see any key or for that matter even picasa or google being mentioned.

I will wait a few days to see if the pictures disappeared because they are cached. Will let you know if that happens.

Ray

]]> By: Mike http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-20065 Mike Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:08:40 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-20065 Hi Ray - I think we might be using "unlisted" with a different idea in mind. Google's definition is here: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39551 If your albums are unlisted then they require an authorization key in the URL. I didn't add support for them to Shashin as I figured people wouldn't want to make the authorization key visible in their sites. But from what I've been hearing recently, some Shashin users won't mind (for example, they already require a password to view their site). Hi Ray – I think we might be using “unlisted” with a different idea in mind. Google’s definition is here:

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39551

If your albums are unlisted then they require an authorization key in the URL. I didn’t add support for them to Shashin as I figured people wouldn’t want to make the authorization key visible in their sites. But from what I’ve been hearing recently, some Shashin users won’t mind (for example, they already require a password to view their site).

]]> By: Ray http://www.toppa.com/2008/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-19976 Ray Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:24:10 +0000 http://www.toppa.com/?p=570#comment-19976 I am not sure I understand the issue with unlisted albums. All my albums on Picasa are unlisted, yet still show up on site using Shashin. Ray I am not sure I understand the issue with unlisted albums. All my albums on Picasa are unlisted, yet still show up on site using Shashin.

Ray

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