Geo2 Maps Add-on for NextGEN Gallery vs Simple Google Photos Grid

!!! Please notice that “Ratings” do not represent the current plugin version quality – which was updated and corrected. Please check by yourself and leave feedback. NGG Geo2 Maps Add-on is a flexible extension plugin for free or Pro NextGEN Gallery (tested up to version 4.0.4), displaying maps with your photos, galleries or albums located using EXIF GPS data or geocoding. The goal of this plugin is to add to WordPress similar geolocation functionality as other web-based self-hosted photo manager apps have like Gallery 3, Piwigo, PhotoPrism or LibrePhotos. The plugin is using Microsoft Azure Maps and requires free Azure Maps API Key to function. Features Maps with geo-located photos – Create maps with your photos, using their GPS data. Support for JPEG and WebP images, with fast, native metadata reading. Support for different representation of photos on a map: 7 Azure maps Pushpins, Thumbnails (round, rectangular) Preview photos by clicking on a Pushpins/Thumbnails in an Infobox or one of 3 Lightboxes (Fancybox, Slimbox 2 or Fancybox 3) Customise Lightboxes: colours and controls Fancybox 3 Bottom Caption Panel with additional image EXIF and GPS info Route mode with GPX, GML, KMZ, KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON, spatial CSV support: displays your travel route together with photos or any other data Worldmap mode: shows all or specific photos, galleries and albums on an overview map, open or preview galleries (via Ajax) Include your maps by using Shortcodes Include maps automatically in every post with a NextGEN gallery Open maps on requests (via Ajax) Create maps with specific photos only Create multiple maps on one page Enlarge maps to full screen Mini Map module Different visual styles for maps Itemized options panel: configure many available options Language support: users can create translations (English, Polish included) Geolocation of galleries and albums in the Worldmap mode using Title

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"]