Many Blogger who use Picasa Web album may have
realized that Google has just lost their mind.
On Sunday August 7th 2016, I awoke to
discover that I could no longer access Picasa Web album to embed pictures in my
blog My
Thoughts on Technology and Jamaica. Worse, all those thousands of pictures
I’d posted over the years no longer had active embed links pointing to Picasa
Web album....as they had all been removed.
Wil have to fix that later in a massive undertaking!
Initially panicking, I tried to embed pictures for the
cutting posit I was in at the time, that being my blog article
entitled “JPSCo
US$5 million Smart Grid and Tesla Motors Battery Storage Tech Fixes Low Power
Periods”.
It was then I realized the truth; Google Photos, the
new host for my Picasa Images, does not support embedding.
So what was I to do to host and embed my pictures?
Migrating
Google Photos to Google Drive – Making photos Embeddable
A quick search of Google revealed a solution on the
Product Forum for Google Photos entitled How
can I embed my images in another website using Google Photos?
The steps for this solution are rather involved but
provide an elegant solution who sharing:
Open your Google drive for your Blog
Click on the Gear Wheel and select Settings.
Select General and then scroll down to Create a Google Photos folder. Then check the box Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive to auto-populate you Drive with your Google Photos!
Within minutes your Picasa Folders, now in Google Photos will be synched to your Google Drive, ready for embedding using the method as described in my blog article entitled “How to use Dropbox, Google Drive and Sound File Sharing Websites to Share”.
However, this post actually applies to videos; how do
you embed photos?
Embedding
photos using Google Drive – Production Line Patience required
Embedding photos in Google Drive is a little
complicated. You might have to set up a mini production line on a notepad to do
this.
First you need to open a blank notepad sheet as shown
below
Go into you Google Photos Folder. Mine goes back several years by the way
Select an image. Right-click on the image, and select
Share.
Click on the Advanced
option.
Click on the Change
option.
Select On -
Public on the web, then click Save.
Copy the string of characters between “file/d/” and
“/view? As shown below
To create your image URL, use the format http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=FILEID.
Change FILEID to the string of characters you just copied e.g. ‘img
src="http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B2nmJ_DIvLZtS0VGSnNRVlVTQTA"
alt="Google Logo" with “<” and “>” added at the start and
end respectively.
Thus you’ll have the following embeddable image, whose
see you can adjust using Blogger’s built in settings.
That's it! Sharing is caring about your fellow
bloggers so share this as widely as possible!
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