Social Photo Fetcher vs Simple Google Photos Grid

EOL Notice This plugin has been sunset as of 5/21/2026. Big thank you to all the users who have contributed over the past 16 years – this was not an easy decision, but unfortunately, Facebook’s aggressive stance towards developers has just made it too difficult for a solo dev to maintain. Please see here for details & a full explanation. Description Social Photo Fetcher (previously called “Facebook Photo Fetcher”) allows you to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums. The idea was inspired by Fotobook, though its approach is fundamentally different: while Fotobook’s emphasis is on automation, this plugin allows a great deal of customization. With it you can create galleries in any Post or Page you like, right alongside your regular content. You do this simply by putting a “magic HTML tag” in the post’s content – much like WordPress Shortcode. Upon saving, the tag will instantly be populated with the Facebook album content. Presentation is fully customizable via parameters to the “magic tag” – you can choose to show only a subset of an album’s photos, change the number of photos per column, show photo captions, and more. Plus, Social Photo Fetcher doesn’t limit you to just your own albums: it can create galleries from fanpages as well. Features: Uses Facebook’s API to instantly create WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums. Galleries are fully customizable: you can import complete albums, select excerpts, random excerpts, album descriptions, photo captions, and more. Galleries can be organized however you like: in any post or page, alone or alongside your other content. Simple PHP template function allows programmers to manually embed albums in any template or widget. Built-in LightBox: Photos appear in attractive pop-up overlays without the need for any other plugins. Admin panel handles all the setup for you: Just login and you’re ready to start making albums. No custom database tables required; galleries live in regular post content. For a Demo Gallery, see the plugin’s homepage. Donate Many hours have gone into developing & maintaining this plugin, far beyond my own personal needs. If you find it useful, please consider making a donation to help support its continued development. Privacy This plugin uses the Facebook API to fetch photo albums from Facebook. Facebook’s security rules require that apps must authorize from one specific, known location. In order comply with this requirement, when you first authorize the plugin from its admin panel, a Facebook dialog will be initiated via my own authentication server. The dialog itself is shown directly by Facebook, and Facebook handles the entire login process – no personal information will be transferred via my server, as Facebook only supplies a single-use token which I then hand back to your site to be stored. This is what the plugin uses in order to fetch the photos. For more information about how the Facebook authorization process works, please see Facebook’s documentation. Usage of this plugin means the site administrator is consenting to Facebook’s data policy. Fetched album data will be stored in your WordPress database, in posts or pages of your choosing. It can be removed by deleting those posts or pages. You are solely responsible for the security and protection of the fetched data, as it resides on and is hosted within your own WordPress site. Support Please direct all support requests here

A simple, no-frills solution to display a Google Photos album on your site using a widget or a shortcode. There is only one layout option: grid. There is only one required attribute: album url. That’s it, that easy. See a demo and read more about the plugin. The code is also available on Github. Notes Your album on Google Photos must be “public”, which means you need to go into Google Photos on the web and set “Sharing options” to on, i.e. “Anyone with the link can see these photos and the people who’ve been invited or joined.” Requires curl or similar to fetch the photo urls. No support is provided. Probably no features will be added. You are free to ask, or to fork. Pull requests accepted. Widget Go to Appearance -> Widgets and a new widget named Simple Google Photos Grid should be available to use. Drag to your desired widget area and configure. Title: Heading of the widget on your site. Default to empty. Album URL: The full URL to your public gallery on Google Photos. URL must use one of the following domains: ‘photos.app.goo.gl’ or ‘photos.google.com’. Ideally should be the short, “shared” link (such as https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1z). Num Photos to Show: Even numbers probably work best. There’s a maximum number, not sure what it is, but it’s pretty low. Num Photos per Row: How many photos to show per row? Probably some number that works well with Num Photos. Cache Interval (in minutes): How long to cache photo URLs before checking the album on Google again. 0 for no cache. Shortcode Place the shortcode in a post, page or theme. [simple_google_photos_grid album-url=”https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1″] Available attributes are: – album-url: (required) the url to a public Google Photos album, domain must be one of ‘photos.app.goo.gl’ or ‘photos.google.com’ – number-photos: (optional) number of photos to display, defaults to 4 – number-photos-per-row: (optional) number of photos per row, defaults to 2 – cache-interval: (optional) length, in minutes, to cache the photo urls retrieved from Google, defaults to 15 [simple_google_photos_grid album-url="https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8EOLs5YtESchh4g1" number-photos="6" number-photos-per-row="3" cache-interval="120"]