=== Shashin ===
Contributors: toppa
Donate link: http://www.toppa.com/shashin-wordpress-plugin
Tags: Picasa, Highslide, image, images, photo, photos, picture, pictures, gallery, widget, widgets, video
Requires at least: 2.1
Tested up to: 2.7.1
Stable tag: 2.4

Shashin is a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you display Picasa photos, albums, and videos anywhere in your WordPress site.

== Description ==

**New in Shashin 2.4**

* Support for image viewers other than Highslide, such as Lightbox, Fancybox, etc.
* Display album photos using the order you've set in Picasa.
* Customizable pagination of album photos.
* New settings for customizing Highslide's borders, navigation bar, and background color/opacity.
* Dynamically set thumbnails sizes and the number of thumbnail columns to suit your WordPress theme (this means you don't have to worry about images being too large or small if you switch to a wider or narrower theme).
* Show camera EXIF data in Highslide captions.
* Improved usability for the Shashin admin screens, with detailed examples of Shashin tags.
* Align images and groups of thumbnails to the center
* Specify an alternate image to use as a thumbnail - this is often useful for videos.
* Updated to the latest version of Highslide (4.1.4)
* Includes Russian and Dutch translations

**Overview**

Shashin has many features for displaying your Picasa photos and videos in your Wordpress posts and pages:

* Show a gallery of your Picasa albums, and all the photos and videos in each album.
* Show your photos and vidoes with your favorite image viewer. Highslide is included with Shashin, but you ay also use a different viewer of your choice.
* Pick individual photos or videos to display, in any size supported by Picasa.
* Pick photos and videos from any combination of albums to display in groups of thumbnails.
* Show thumbnails of your newest photos and videos, from one or more albums.
* Display album thumbnails for albums you choose, or all your albums, sorted however you like. Includes links to Google Maps.
* Display any number of random photos and videos, from one or more albums. You can also choose to exclude certain photos or albums from random display.
* Use widgets for all of the above!
* Customize the Shashin and Highslide stylesheets to suit the theme of your site.
* Internationalization: Shashin supports translations into other languages (please contribute a translation if you're bilingual!)
* Schedule daily automatic synchronization of Shashin with your Picasa albums.

== Installation ==

**Upgrade Instructions**

1. Download the zip file, unzip it, and upload to your plugins directory, replacing your shashin folder.
1. Deactivate and reactivate Shashin in your plugin panel.
1. Sync all your albums (this is needed to get new camera EXIF data from Picasa).
1. Review the Shashin Settings menu, as there are several new options.
1. If you use an image viewer other than the version of Highslide included with Shashin, you need to set it up and configure it yourself. The Shashin settings menu provides several options for image and link IDs, classes, titles, etc. in order to support a variety of image viewers.

**First-Time Installation Instructions**

1. Download the zip file, unzip it, and upload the "shashin" folder to your plugins directory. Then activate it from your plugin panel. After successful activation, Shashin will appear in your "Tools" menu and your "Settings" menu.
1. Go to the Shashin Settings menu and adjust the options as you like. It's important that you provide the correct URL for your Picasa server. For example, if you're in the UK, it would be http://picasaweb.google.co.uk
1. If you use an image viewer other than the version of Highslide included with Shashin, you need to set it up and configure it yourself. The Shashin settings menu provides several options for image and link IDs, classes, titles, etc. in order to support a variety of image viewers.
1. Go to the Shashin Tools menu and follow the directions to add your first album!
1. Note that Shashin will add two tables to your WordPress database, named wp\_shashin\_album and wp\_shashin\_photo. **It's important to include these tables when making backups of your WordPress tables.** The Shashin tags rely on key numbers from these tables that you won't get back if you lose the data in these tables.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

Please go to [the Shashin page for detailed instructions on how to use Shashin](http://www.toppa.com/shashin-wordpress-plugin).