Large images instead of thumbnails

  • Dumel

    (@dumel)


    5 years ago

    Nice concept but unfortunately the images in the gallery are not true thumbnails. They are the full sized images forcibly resized and this causes galleries to load much slower. Images “shift around” for quite a while while large images load and while the algorithm decides what goes where.

    • This topic was modified 5 years ago by Dumel.
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  • Plugin Author janthielemann

    (@janthielemann)

    You can enable Responsive Thumbnails and choose which image size to use for Desktop/Tablet/Phone thumbnails individually. This is because you can also have a different amount of columns on each device type and the module can be in any column type in a row. This is nothing I could solve programmatically so you are responsible to take actions here.

    For example the responsive breakpoint for tablets is 980px. Given you display 4 columns on desktop and you use a single column row with max-width of 1080 (Divi default), a single column in the gallery would be between 245px and 270px. Therefore by choosing the Medium size thumbnail (300px) you get the best resolution for the smallest size. Of course you can add your own sizes via code/plugins and get even more suitable image sizes.

    It is absolutely possible to use smaller sized images for the thumbnails. The lightbox will always show the full size image. I’d highly appreciate it, if you could reconsider your rating. ??

    Plugin Author janthielemann

    (@janthielemann)

    As for the shifting, the solution here would be to configure a fade in animation in the module settings. Then the module could finish loading and once finished, would fade in.

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