=== Shashin Notes===
Shashin is a useful WordPress plugin that enables displaying of Google Picasa Album images anywhere in WordPress page.
All you need to do is to examine the author’s site.
and it is a breeze. Let’s think about it just one moment. Why install all manner of galleries on a site from your host. Choosing one album such as Google Picassa Albm to store your images and using this plugin to point to a display of your images with minor effort makes a lot of sense.The following is excerpted from that site.
= Description ==
“Shashin has many features that enable you to display your Picasa photos in a variety of ways in your WordPress posts and pages:
* Embed a gallery of your Picasa albums, and all the photos in each album.
* Show your photos with Highslide. (An advanced installation)
* Pick individual photos to display, in any size supported by Picasa.
* Pick photos from any combination of albums to display in groups of thumbnails.
* Show thumbnails of your newest photos, from one or more albums.
* Display album thumbnails for albums you choose, or all your albums, sorted however you like. Includes links to Google Maps.
* Display any number of random photos, from one or more albums. You can also choose to exclude certain photos or albums from random display.
* Use widgets for all of the above!
* Customize the Shashin stylesheet to suit the theme of your site.”
We found shashin enabling picassa galleries is a straight forward plugin that can be enhanced by drilling further into the instructions. We appreciate that installation for this wordpress blog plugin can be operational in a very short time.
For illustration of specifying specific albums, we examine keys of albums in Shashin plugin and insert the keys to those specific albums.
We did observe that our blog site screen generation was exceptionally slow after installing this plugin. We believe this to be the delay in making the connection with picassa album.
Example of our effort when apply this plugin to our blog site Discoveries
[salbumthumbs=8|9,2,y,n]
Lewis and Clark Excursion Day 1 8 12 26-Jul-08 14:42 [salbum=8,y,y,left] Yes No Sync Album Delete Album
Lewis and Clark Excursion Day 2 9 28 26-Jul-08 14:42 [salbum=9,y,y,left] Yes No Sync Album Delete Album
Gives tag script
Examine: Shashin 2.1 – Easier Steps for Displaying All Album Photos if you use Picassa Albums. The process is straight forward.
=== Shashin ends ===
<<<sidebar>>>
In searching wordpress plugins, we veered off to self contained galleries, when the original intention was to trace available plugins that are compatible with theme of choice and work without creating SQL data base and spend all that time to make the gallery work properly.
***
We will continue searching and and testing those plugins and bypass the galleries requiring host databases.
<<<sidebar>>>
On to the next gallery plugin.
