Picasna — free fullscreen flash gallery widget and plugin for wordpress

Picasna 1.6

Igor Barbashin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:14:04 +0000

The major update is coming!

Thanks for all suggestions and bug reports. I’m happy to see how Picasna helps you show off your art-work and pictures.

I’m starting to work on a new version of Picasna. Feel free to ask for interesting or important features, and don’t forget to support the development!

Picasna Widget Update

Igor Barbashin — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:09:12 +0000

Check out the updated widget.

Now it supports flickr!

Picasna 1.5 Release Notes

Igor Barbashin — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:02:32 +0000

In this release I added some features that Picasna users requested.
Due to a major bug fix, Picasna should work with larger number of server configurations. Now the script that generates and caches the Picasaweb xml responses is located on picasna server (not on blog owner’s hosting).

What’s new:

— Keyboard control (Right/Left/Space for Flash Player 10).
— Caching for faster loading.
— Fetching all public albums.
— Bug fixes.

Now to display all public albums from your account, just put the following link with your Picasaweb username:
your-username/allpublic”>Gallery

Picasna 1.4 Release Notes

Igor Barbashin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:03:16 +0000

Completely redesigned the cover graphics. Now it’s stunning and informative.
To switch to the new design, please check Picasna Settings on your wordpress dashboard.

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And now the plugin looks much better on “small” screens (less than 1280px wide).
The Widget is also updated.

Working hard on Flickr and MySpace versions

Buy me a beer if you like it

Picasna 1.3 Release Notes

Igor Barbashin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:04:46 +0000

The last version was pretty slow. This one just flies. Upgrade and see!

— Improved performance
— Better preloading
— Bug fixes

And there’s the Widget that allows you to show your Picasaweb galleries on non-wordpress websites or blogs.

Working hard on Flickr and MySpace versions

Buy me a beer if you like it

Widget launched

Igor Barbashin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:37:19 +0000

The Picasna Widget is built for those who doesn’t have a wordpress blog, but wants to use Picasna.

Feel free to test it!
More detailed instructions are coming.

Picasna 1.2 Release Notes

Igor Barbashin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:54:40 +0000

In this release I added some features that first Picasna users requested.

Let’s see what’s new:

— UTF-8 Unicode for all text! (All languages support)
— Light and dark color schemes.
— Next image preloading
— Reduced gallery file size (26kb instead of 135kb)
— Hide photo-caption field if empty
— Bug fixes

Now to change the color of your gallery, just change it in Picasna settings.

In future releases

We got big plans for this plugin. Here’s the short list of what you might see in next versions of Picasna:
— Sidebar widget
— Several albums in one gallery
— More services to work with (standalone, Flickr, Vimeo)
— Keyboard control
— Smart layout (to support smaller screen sizes and automatic thumbnailing)
— iPhone/iPod Touch/Android support
— Video support

And in a couple days you can test the Picasna Widget that allows you to show your image galleries everywhere even without WordPress (which is cool anyway).

Notice that donators can help with the development and even set priorities for particular functionality

Broken layout fix

Igor Barbashin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:46:03 +0000

If your layout looks a bit weird after you post your albums using Picasna, it may happen if you have nothing but the album in your post.
It can look like this:

To fix it, we can just add the following div tag to our post (in HTML mode):

After this fix the layout should be fine:

Picasna 1.1 Release Notes

Igor Barbashin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:32:31 +0000

What’s new:

— Bug fixes.
— Captions notification (see screenshot).

now we can see which photos are captioned

In future releases

We got big plans for this plugin. Here’s the short list of what you might see in next versions of Picasna:
— UTF-8 Encoding (now supports latin and cyrillic only)
— Sidebar widget
— Several albums in one gallery
— Advanced caching and preloading mechanisms for faster browsing
— More services to work with (standalone, Flickr, Vimeo)
— Keyboard control
— Screen resolution detection
— iPhone/iPod Touch/Android support
— Video support

Notice that donators can help with the development and even set priorities for particular functionality

Picasna 1.0 Release Notes

Igor Barbashin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:43:14 +0000

In this initial version we able to show one of our Picasa Web Albums.

The basic features include:
— Fullscreen browsing
— Unlisted albums support
— Html album description and photo captions
— Thumbnails pagination
— Choice from several thumbnail sizes
— Big variety of full-size dimensions

In future releases

Notice that donators can help with the development and even set priorities for particular functionality