How Can I Change the Thumbnail Size When Displaying Albums?

I had to regenerate the thumbnails after adjusting the settings. Not sure if that’s what you’re seeing, but it might help.

Hi Norconkm,

I did the regenerate thumbnails a couple of times…what adjustments and settings did you make? I can get the gallery thumbnails to change, but not the album thumbnails. Seems like it would be easy… Thanks!

I have been trying to figure this out as well. The album thumbnails are very small. I have tried everything and can not find a way to change the size of the album thumbnails – only those in the galleries themselves. This would be a desirable feature.

I could not solve this so I made a realy ugly hack. Probably not upgrade safe. In the plugin file, under products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/nextgen_basic_album/adapter.nextgen_basic_album_controller.php around row 154 I changed width and height to what i needed. I could not find any other way around this but that worked for me.

I need to find a better solution but it will to for now. Anybody else have any notes about this i gladly accept any tips.

@apronstringsaflutter – In NextGEN we are hardcoding the thumbnail sizes for basic and extended basic albums. For compact albums, they were fixed size in legacy version of NextGEN (v1.9.x) too. However, for extended albums in legacy, the thumbnails were the size of your gallery thumbnails. So if you resized thumbnails, etc, you could resize the thumbnail size in your extended albums. Right now, both album thumbs are hardcoded in size.

The quick fix for this to go to this file:
../plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati-nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_album/adapter.nextgen_basic_album_controller.php

You’ll need to look for these lines (around line 153ish) and change the thumbnail dimensions to what you are looking for:
// legacy templates expect these dimensions
$image_gen_params = array(
‘width’ => 91,
‘height’ => 68,
‘crop’ => TRUE
And by the way, changing the CSS for extended albums to the size you want won’t resolve this, because the underlying thumbnail is still the same size, which means that you’re thumbnail is one size, the CSS is another, and the thumb will be pixelated.

-Becky

Thank you @photocrati! I will try that.

Best,

Nicole

Hi @photocrati , I have the same problem and I have tried to change the coding as per your instruction above but my album is still displaying in the legacy size. Appreciate your assistance.

https://akudankraf.com.my/gallery1/

Thanks!

@ferah – Do you have a caching plugin installed? You might try temporarily deleting the caching plugin (NOT NextGEN) > clear browser cache, and check again. If that works, you can reinstall the caching plugin.

Unfortunately with caching plugins, sometimes deactivating isn’t enough to clear the cache or stop the caching. Deleting usually works better. Than you can reinstall after you confirm whether the update/change worked.

-Becky

I tried your code tweak as well and it was not successful.

Hi @photocrati,

I tried the above coding changed and it worked…party. If you look at the individual gallery pages (https://babysbreastie.com/photo-gallery/nggallery/photo-gallery/maternity-shoot/) it resizes perfectly. However, I’d like the thumbnails on the main album page to also be bigger (https://babysbreastie.com/photo-gallery/). Is that possible? Thanks for your help!

Hey all – just checking back in on this thread. I wanted to confirm that we’ve added this functionality directly to the NextGEN pop-up window for basic extended albums. Just go to any page / post, add or edit an extended album, click the “Customize” accordion, chose to override thumbnail settings, and specify your desired thumbnail sizes.

In our testing this is now working flawlessly. So you should not need to edit theme files or mess with custom CSS for this.

If you try that and it’s not working, please let us know.

Also, if you’ve edited theme files or added custom css, be sure to remove your changes or restore the original files so that your changes don’t interfere with the new functionality.

Hi @photocrati

Thanks for adding the functionality to the pop-up window.
I managed to make the thumbnail bigger if I choose to display as “Basic Extended album”. It is possible for have this function to be added into the “Basic Compact Album” as well? Coz if I choose “Basic Compact Album” there is no option to override the thumbnail size like in “Basic Extended Album”.

Thank you.

Hi,
First, congrats on a great plugin. I would like to also request the additional functionality to override the thumbnail size in the “Basic Compact Album”.

Thanks

@earlylifespain – Feel free to visit our Feature Request form and let us know what you would like to see there: https://www.nextgen-gallery.com/feature-voting/

@photocrati My suggestions:

please change it on new updated plugin
because if i update the code and change the album thumbnail size on
../plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati-nextgen/modules/nextgen_basic_album/adapter.nextgen_basic_album_controller.php

i’ll lost modification if i update plugin.
provide a album’s thumbnail option on admin panel.

Thanks