Photo Express for Google
Browse and select photos from any public or private Google+ album and add them to your posts/pages. This is an unofficial fork of "Picasa and Goo …
4.4(20 reviews)
·70 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Photo Express for Google is a WordPress oauth plugin with 70 active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 20 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: JWT Authentication for WP REST API.
4.4/520 reviews
70active installs
21K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Browse your Google+/Picasa Web albums and select images or whole albums to insert into your posts/pages. This is an unofficial
fork of Picasa Express 2.
The fork has been necessary because the authentication for private photo albums of “Picasa and Google Plus Express” has been broken since
April 2015 due to changes to the authentication protocol. This is the first release after a major change to the code. Please
be so kind and test this version before putting it into production.
This fork supports OAUTH authentication with Google, so you can access private photos and albums again! Currently this only works on a blog-wide mode (Google+ Express access level: blog). I am working on a solution for a per user authentication.
Upgrade notice:
* The plugin requires at least PHP 5…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.7+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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todo
- Embedded video support (currently doesn’t appear to be allowed by Google)
- Add the button to Visual toolbar of Tiny editor in full screen mode
- Work with Google to correct tag searching index issues which cause tag searches to return unexpected results.
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