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Posted in : Photographer
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If you create a regular wordpress post, then change the post format to “gallery”, and add a standard wordpress gallery with images, you get at least 2 issues:
1/ the theme starts loading ALL the images in full-size even though the user is only at the thumbnails view. If you have a bunch of hi-res images, say 50, with each being 1.5MB in size you can imagine how slow the post page with thumbnails will load! What were you thinking about when coding such an awkward move?
2/ Clicking on any thumbnail brings up a lighbox for that ONE SINGLE IMAGE, and that’s that. You cannot move to next/previous image by arrow keys on keyboard, or any other way. You cannot zoom in. What were you thinking, again, by calling this post format “a gallery” and stripping it of ALL usefull gallery functionality???
Maybe it’s time to optimize your premium theme a little?
Thanks for reading.Hi,
1-) Actually when using default galleries it shouldn’t load full res images until you click on thumbs. Can you provide your related page url?
2-) You have a point, we will add an option to choose lightbox type for galleries also on regular pages/posts.
Thanks.
http://shumsky.info/?p=13365 this is a sample gallery (standard wordpress gallery, standard post), it loads all images at the thumbnail view.
Any ideas why it does that?edit your gallery and on the right hand side of the screen, choose
Link To: Media FileSize : Medium.that is a workaround, not a proper fix. I need full-size images in my galleries in the 1st place. And the thumbnail view should load thumbnails, not full-sized images!
actually it is not a workaround, it is a default wordpress feature for optimizing galleries and it is what you are asking for; it will make thumbnail sizes smaller to increase page load and you will get the full size image when you click on a thumb.
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