Advice on choosing gallery with LARGE number of images

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  • Matt

    (@mzak)

    I would look into either EnviraGallery or FooGallery

    Thread Starter AlternativePhotography

    (@alternativephotography)

    Hi,
    Thank you for your reply. Envira is a paid version, and I don’t have a budget. Looks good otherwise.
    FooGallery… will it be able to handle a HUGE number of images? Do you have any examples of this I would really appreciate it.

    Matt

    (@mzak)

    I haven’t tried it with a truly HUGE number of images, so I can’t answer that unfortunately. I did use it to convert a bunch of galleries (800-900 images total I’d guess) from NextGen, and it worked just fine for that.

    Thread Starter AlternativePhotography

    (@alternativephotography)

    Ok… any more people out there who would like to share their experiences?

    Hey!

    I have a similar problem. I’m managing a marathon website which has several galleries of eight hundred or more photographs each, and it’s been a real headache trying to find the right solution.

    I’d used pure NextGen originally, but I didn’t like how the galleries displayed (I prefer ‘masonry’ layout because there’s so many pictures).

    The version 2.0 of Envira Gallery was okay, but they recently upgraded and version 3.0 seems very buggy so far. It’s quite frustrating to upload a couple hundred photos only to have Envira not remember the settings no matter how many times I re-save them. And yes, I’m on the paid version. Quite disappointing. It also crashes my mobile phone when there are more than a dozen photographs.

    Justified Image Grid is quite good to partner with NextGen, because it has a ‘load more’ feature which can be handy for the large numbers. Only problem is it sometimes takes a long time to load (sometimes a full minute) and no viewer is going to hang around that long. (I have to confirm if it’s JSI that’s slow though, or actually that website’s server.)

    Very frustrating. If you can figure out something, please shoot me a message.

    ^ I made a mistake. Envira 1.2 was good. When I upgraded to 1.3, things started going wrong.

    Just a follow up to my posts yesterday.

    I gave Justified Image Grid a second chance, this time with the website on a fast server and using Justified Image Grid’s ‘Load More’ feature. It seems the plugin itself had been upgraded since my last use too.

    So far it’s working quite well for galleries with a few hundred pictures. Loading much faster than my previous experience with it.

    I’m using it with WordPress’s built-in ‘Create Gallery’ tools, and not NextGen.

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