Gallery for Google Photos – share your albums right on your site

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1. ★★★★★ zinizcheng77

   2mo ago

   i tried many plugins but i finally come back to this one as suggested by AI. it’s just stupid to setup all the things (like the Client ID, Client Secret, Refresh Token) and the documents just ask you to add them? so useless and a total waste of time!

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2. ★★★★★ novgorod

   1.2y ago

   Since April 2025 Google removed public API access of the photos library entirely. The “Photos Library API” can now only access photos that were created through the API, which is completely useless, and there is no replacement other than using a plugin based on web-scraping a shared album link. Or you can reverse-engineer the private API of the official Google app or website, but who has time for that? Another step-up in evilness for Google (they can go and choke on a c*ck), and 3 stars for the effort to make the only API-based plugin for this. Back to scraping it is – at least it costs Google more money in traffic and webhosting.

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3. ★★★★★ weetameal

   1.4y ago

   Working well. You just need to read the instruction well to create the API token.

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4. ★★★★★ gnfb

   1.5y ago

   This has what seems like 500 pages of google stuff to try and do first get a degree from mit then take a week off if you want to install

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5. ★★★★★ massebooks

   1.5y ago

   So many things wrong with this plugin starting with the horrible instructions. You activate the install the plugin, activate it…then what? There are no instructions – you have to go hunt them down. And unless you have a deep knowledge of Google API’s don’t waste your time. Even after I finally got everything set up, the plugin and Google API would not connect to each other. An hour out of my life gone with nothing to show for it.

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6. ★★★★★ uweha

   2.0y ago

   One of the best plugin to take Google Photos and Google Album into a wordpress post. The description for integrating Google Photos is very detailed. Anyone can do that!

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 Gallery for Google Photos <= 1.2.0 - Unauthenticated Google OAuth Token Disclosure ↗
   2026-07-23 CVE-2026-15236 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 1.2.0 Patched in 1.2.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-06 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-01-05 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-01-04 900+ → 1K+ up after 3 days in tier
4. 2026-01-01 1K+ → 900+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-12-30 900+ → 1K+ up after 7 days in tier
6. 2025-12-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 4 days in tier
7. 2025-12-19 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-12-18 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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