Photo Seller – slow loading gallery templates

[soundman]

re Gallery thumbmail templates, I’m wondering why a gallery using Template 5 takes an age to load the thumbs whereas if I use Template 3 on the same gallery the thumbs load right away?

Thanks

David

[Peter]

Template 5 is similar to template 2 but slightly larger images and no button.

Does template 2 load slowly too?

Both templates load ok on my test site.

[soundman]

Yes, template two loads slowly as well, sometimes hangs without loading the thumbs, wheras compared to templates 2 and 5, template 3 loads normally. You can see an example of template two at [www.photospastandpresent.co.uk]

on the home page, scroll down and click on the ‘Buses’ gallery. If it loads, click through the ‘next’ pages until it hangs

[Peter]

Well the main processing needed for templates 5 and 2 is the production of the custom thumbs.

For example template 5 uses thumbs with max height of 175px. It first checks if that thumb exists but if it doesn’t then it will need to create it on the fly using your full-sized image.

You’ll notice that subsequent loads of the same page will be faster after the thumb has been created.

(We might have to make the thumbmaking process for T2 and T5 to occur in the background just after you’ve saved the gallery settings)

[Author]

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