WordPress.com now supports seamless integration between Google Photos and the WordPress media library.

Users can now connect their Google accounts to access their photos when inserting an image.

Google Photos has gained popularity due to its automatic tagless organization and free unlimited backup for photos and videos up to 16MP and 1080p HD. In May 2017, the service reported 500 million monthly users saving over 1,2 billion photos and videos per day.

While uploading images to WordPress.com, users can also take advantage of Google's smart image search features. The service is good enough at recognizing what's in your images and where they were taken, even if you haven't categorized them or added descriptions.

The new Google Photos integration is also available for Jetpack-enabled websites when posting through the WordPress.com interface. (It is not available on the self-hosted websites dashboard.)

Unfortunately, this experience is still buggy. After adding photos, WordPress.com does not appear to be able to save projects and it has not yet been possible to view the latest photos from last week.

Users should also note that when you authenticate with Google Photos, it will give access to the photos of each website that you have logged into that WordPress.com account. This access is however limited to the specific user logged in. 

Multiple users on a website must each authenticate separately and can connect their own Google accounts. Users do not have access to each other's photos. It is also easy to revoke access via wordpress.com/sharing.

The new Google Photos feature has been very well received by WordPress.com users, as it saves them from the difficulty of downloading images from the service and then uploading them to their multimedia libraries. 

This is not, however, as convenient for websites that are compatible with Jetpack, as it adds additional steps to the publishing process.

« Great functionality, but will it be available directly from self-hosted websites without using WordPress.com ? ", Asked a user. 

« This cuts down so many steps in our post flow, but adds several more if we then need to log into WordPress.com to do so. Our admin setup is complex, so switching to editing here (WordPress.com) is not an option. We have several contributors who write directly and it would be nice if they could upload their images directly from their account« 

A representative from WordPress.com confirmed that there are currently no plans to support a standalone version on Jetpack. They are, however, planning to support other services, such as Flickr, in the future.

Discover also some premium WordPress plugins  

You can use other WordPress plugins to give a modern appearance and to optimize the handling of your blog or website.

We offer you here some premium WordPress plugins that will help you do that.

1. Ajax Search Pro for WordPress

Ajax Search Pro is one of the best WordPress plugins premium real-time search bar on WordPress. It is highly customizable, with many features and options, and delivers the best possible results.
You can replace the WordPress search bar with a more efficient and dynamic search engine. Furthermore, this WordPress Plugin has over 60 colorful, fully customizable themes that will save you time.

See our article on 10 WordPress plugins to improve the visual of your website

So you can focus more on the visual presentation of your search form.

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2. Social Share and Locker Pro

Another big contender in our lock plugin list is Social Share and Locker Pro. This WordPress Plugin premium offers tons of features almost the same as the Bloom plugin seen above.

You will find as main features: a cshareholder and Likes, the dunlocking the content after sharing, the partage of several types of content, Visual Composer integration, a ffet at the mouse overflight, a mise page 100% responsive, a genabler of shortcodes, et more.

See also 9 WordPress plugins to activate the connection via social networks.

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3. Youtubomatic 

Youtubomatic is a new WordPress Plugin premium which will be especially useful if you are a blogger video. When this WordPress plugin is active on your website, it can automatically import videos from YouTube and publish them to WordPress using YouTube's native API. 

Once this feature is enabled, you can download a video to your channel from YouTube simply by accessing it through a link.

You'll be able to import both posts and comments to YouTube to provide engaging content on your blog. The plugin reduces the duplicate content with some advanced features, like a random phrase generator and a synonym generator that will make your publication different from the source. Its support for text rotation enhances the value of SEO.

See also How to upload your bulk media on WordPress

Google robots are likely to treat the content generated by this plugin as unique. You will be able to define the rules based on which the posts will be generated and search the content using filters and options. 

Personalized shortcodes are available for inserting videos into a post to display a list of videos suggested by a keyword search or to display videos from a playlist.

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Conclusion

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However, you will also be able to consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation.

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