kpicasa wordpress plugin
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008I spent almost half a day trying to find a working plugin in order to embed my picasa galeries into my blog. I did not want another gallery management system or anything because I use Iphoto and via the iphoto/picasa plugin i can simply publish my galleries to picasaweb. I dont want to upload my pictures more than once so I was looking for a plugin that dynamically grabs the galleries from my picasa account and then displays them on my blog. There are many plugins out there that promise to do so. I used Ajax-Gallery but it stopped working when I updated to version 3.0 plus it is only in spanish. So I ran over the kpicasa plugin, which seemed the most promising to me. I tried to install it but it would not work since it requires php5. My webspace rendered .php files with php 4. I solved this problem by adding these lines to my .htaccess file.
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .phpAddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
That way all your php files will be rendered using php 5. Note: if your webspace does not support php5 this won’t solve the problem. After doing so I still got an error that looked like this:
Error: your PHP configuration does not allow kPicasa Gallery to connect to Picasa Web Albums. Please ask your administrator to enable allow_url_fopen or cURL.
This can mean either what it says, or the author told me it can also mean that your username is spelled the wrong way. Anyhow check if the features are enabled by using the phpinfo() command. If they are disabled talk to your webspace host. I found them to be enabled but it still did not work. The reason was that my webspace host blocked these features externally from the php.ini . I had them unlock the google domain and now it is working. The Author(Authors Blog) was very helpful in this process and I got quick support. Thanks a lot for this great plugin.