Shared Albums for Google Photos

Community features are optional. You can use the gallery plugin without joining or publishing anything.

Community Acknowledgements

This plugin has been shaped not only by code, but also by people willing to test early versions, question design decisions, and explain their real-world needs. Their ideas and thoughtful feedback continue to make it more useful and easier to use.

Special Recognition

• Naveen Bachwani ( @naveenbachwani ) – An early adopter with a sharp eye and analytical mind. His feedback often improved usability while new features were still being designed, before they reached a public release. His many feature ideas, extensive testing, UX feedback, and detailed design discussions have helped shape photo information and descriptions, mobile and Fullscreen behavior, the Community Directory, and the current Lightbox and Fullscreen experience.

Personal note: It has been a genuine pleasure working with you, Naveen!

Key Contributors

• Peter Berger ( @peterpolow ) – Detailed feature requests and patient real-device testing that helped drive video support, Gallery mode, separate inline and Fullscreen controls, and more discoverable button behavior on iPhone and other mobile devices.
• Ulf ( @toonwolf ) – Real-world testing and thoughtful presentation requests based on using the plugin for digital signage on a screen in his tennis club cafe.

Additional Acknowledgements

• Valter Bruno ( @valterbruno ) – The original Lightbox feature request and continued real-world testing of the plugin and its shortcode workflow.
• Luis ( @luisbenitez777 ) – The request to support mosaic thumbnails in Fullscreen, which became the Fullscreen mosaic feature.
• Mateusz Starzak (GitHub @matiaspl ) – A public fork that inspired the original mosaic feature.
• GMRobbins ( @gmrobbins ) – An early usability review that led to clearer onboarding and helped inspire Gallery mode and the carousel-to-single experience.

Credits

• Uses Swiper – MIT License
• Uses Plyr – MIT License

Privacy Policy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data for its core gallery functionality.

Use of external Google services

• The plugin fetches public Google Photos album pages from https://photos.google.com and image files from *.googleusercontent.com in order to render the galleries.
• Only publicly shared album links are supported; the plugin has no access to private albums or any content that is not already available via a public share link.
• The plugin does not collect, store, or transmit user credentials or personal data. It only caches album HTML and image URLs in WordPress transients for performance, and this cache is stored locally in your WordPress database.

Community Directory (optional, opt-in)

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If you publish an entry, the community service stores the information you submit, such as title, shortcode, description, tags, optional sample page URL, and optional display name. You can delete your community account from the plugin admin page.

The community backend does not use cookies, analytics, advertising, or newsletters.

Support

• Bug reports: Open an issue on GitHub
• Feature requests: Post on the support forum
• Privacy, account, or sensitive questions: email support@janzeman.com
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