How to embed picasa slideshow?
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Hi,
I have all my family photos in Picasa, and have a blog on wordpress.com linking there.
Is it possible to use the latest picasa feature that lets you embed slideshows on your blog?The way how picasa offers these slideshows is that it generates a little code to paste in your page, which is a link to a shockwave flash, put between embed tags.
I have read somewhere in the forums, that flash (and iframe and javascript) is not allowed and automatically stripped because of security concerns. Is that true, or is there a way to use picasa slideshows?
many thanks
szekelya -
It is true that flash is stripped, and picasa is not one of the slideshows that WordPress.com allows. You can find out which it does here:
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szekelya, you should join me in contacting the WordPress folks and requesting that they add the ability to embed Picasa slideshows in posts. Click the FEEDBACK button in your dashboard and send them a note!
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I have read somewhere in the forums, that flash (and iframe and javascript) is not allowed and automatically stripped because of security concerns. Is that true…
Yes. This is a wordpress multi-user blogging platform. And as we are all working on the same platform security is an issue so the software will strip out the code. See the FAQs for confirmation. http://faq.wordpress.com/?s=javascript
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/can-i-add-flash-video-embed-other-media/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=10128If you wish to use flash, javascript, iframes, etc. then you can do so by self hosting wordpress software downloaded from http://wordpress.org then the only security you could possibly compromise would be your own.
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Yep me too, or at least a static selection of photos from my album on Picasa…We have that for Flickr so why not Picasa?
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Agreed, I will send feedback as well regarding this issue.
The current sideshow options, in my opinion, are just not good. -
Another thing- this is also worth contacting Google about, which I’ve just done.
They might find a solution on their side (I’m sure they have the resources if they decide to do so…)You can use this form to submit a request:
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=bugs -
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i also this support like embedding my picasa slideshow here. i think, wordpress should add features like this.
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If you wish to bring your request for a new feature to staff attention then you will find a “support” button on the top right hand corner of any admin side blog page that you can use to make your request during support hours. :)
You can add other kinds of slideshows, of course, in accordance with the FAQs.
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I’m in agreement with all the comments above… I don’t understand how this terrific improvement over BLOGSPOT has yet to allow the embedding of Picassa…
Until then, I will rely on dumb links. Oh well.
Thanks all, for clarifying. I’ve been trying everything I can think of to get it to work… as it does on my old Blogspot site.
Ken K
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@kenkemp – as raincoaster pointed out, the fact that Picasa can’t be used here does not mean no slideshows work.
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Highly required … Esp since vox and blogger (ofcourse) allow them. One of the gripes I have about almost all the blogging portals is this integration nightmare. Keep videos on youtube/google video, photos on picasaweb/filckr, audio on odeo/elsewhere, blog text here in worpress/vox/blogger, links going all over… Woud n’t be nice to get a blogging service that has it all (and … ghrrrr.. free?).
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adding support for Picasa is a matter of just couple lines of code. not sure why it’s not here.
let alone, Picasa is 1GB of free image storage space as well…
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I figured out a way to post Picasa Slideshows to WordPress. First you need to install the “Post to WordPress” plugin found
a href=http://vodpod.com/wordpressherea.Then, copy the EMBED code from Picasa to a text document and save the document as an HTML file.
Open the file in Firefox and click on the “Post to WordPress” toolbar button.
And there you go.
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