How to use the new Picasa Slide Show with WordPress

We’ve been able to post Flickr slideshows for a while, but Picasa is just now giving us the slide show love. Getting your slide show posted is pretty easy. Just get a Picasa album ready with the photos you want inside, and then look for the “Embed Slideshow” link. Once you click on it, you’ll get a pop-up that presents you with some cut/paste HTML you should grab into the clipboard.  You can adjust the sizes of the slide show, and have it show the captions you’ve entered in Picasa.

You can embed Picasa slideshows into Wordpress easily by pasting the code into sidebar widgets  which is a super simple installation into Wordpress 2.1x (and is then found under the “Presentation” tab. or the new widgetized Wordpress 2.2 where these functions are built right in. Once the Picassa code is pasted in, save the new sidebar and voila! Slideshows galore!

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3 Responses to “How to use the new Picasa Slide Show with WordPress”

1. Aug
   31
   2007
   At 4:36 pm Milad Says:

   Hi, Flickr is filtered (banned) in Iran!
   I have to use Picassa…and I love it anyway.
   I love the speed of it.
   But hey, I can’t seem to share it on my wordpress blog. I go to the shared folder, enlarge the photo to its orig size, and copy the path…but it doesn’t show up in the blog…
   Do you happen to know why?
   Where can I get the link to the image to include in my site?
2. Dec
   25
   2007
   At 10:25 pm Amit Says:

   Though it works when I do it on the sidebar, but I intend to have a
   picasa slideshow on a blog post rather. Is there a way to do this. Tried
   to paste the tag on the code view but in vain.

   Any ideas welcome with gratitude!
3. Apr
   3
   2008
   At 12:43 am DanR Says:

   I too would like to know how to post a picasa slideshow in a post on wordpress.
   thanks.

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