Create photonic gallery from google photos url

  • Hi,

    I’m sorry if I’ve missed any post or doc that explains how to do this, but I can’t find any right now.
    Is there a way (through shortcodes or otherwise) to maka a photonic widget using the google photos album URL, instead of the album ID?

    I’m trying to automate the creation of photonic galleries using custom fields in wordpress.
    What I’m trying to accomplish is that our teachers can share albums of photos of their class to the parent-teacher site.

    The way I envisioned it to work was that they would create a google photos album on the school’s account (one account that all teachers have the password to) And then they would enter the url to that album in the gp_album_url custom field of the foto-gallery post. Then, when that post is viewed, using the get_field() function of the custom field plugin I would fill in the URL into the widget.
    That way or teachers would have the easiest way I can think of to post albums of their classes, while I would still have some control over the presentation etc. by editing the template.

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Simple answer: no. The Google Photos API does not understand album URLs, so unless Google changes something, this will not be offered by Photonic either.

    Albums can be displayed on their own pages without any additional plugin – see “Example 3 – Album on a Separate Page” in the demos for an example. Unlike your request, this has nothing to do with a widget or with users specifying a particular album – this just works in a fully automated manner.

    Thread Starter tooncuyvers

    (@tooncuyvers)

    Thanks for the quick reply, and the awesome plugin!
    Too bad about google, the album on a separate page might get me closer, but I don’t think it will work the way I want to.
    We also want the teachers to be able to add categories to the posts, so parents can get an overview of all the albums, but also filter by class/event/…

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