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  • I’m impressed with v101 of NextGen and the Templates approach seems like a better way to control appearance. However I think that forcing people to use CSS for simple theming changes will limit the novice users quite a bit.
    Maybe a library of contributed CSS templates for NextGen can be hosted somewhere (with a link from within the NG Options panel). Also, it seems like the default template provided should have Alt Text labels in the Gallery and then they can be deleted from the CSS (because its easier to locate and delete than to write new lines of CSS).

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: Speed of Next-GEN Gallery!?

    Hi- Likewise I’m impressed with NextGen gallery but I’m having slow performance problems (Dreamhost shared hosting, which isn’t speedy).
    I’ve been uploading larger “Full size” images using the original images from a 7mp camera so the files are like 1.8 to 2.2mb in size.
    I thought this was OK because I thought that NextGen would generate SinglePic images (set to 800×600) and cache those on the server so future visitors would see the reduced SinglePic images and wouldn’t have to wait for the compression on the server. Is this a misunderstanding of how it works? A few questions on the subject:
    1) Should I downsample the original (Full Size) images first if I want faster loading times with SinglePic images even after the caching has worked?
    2) Is there way under “Manage Gallery” to generate cached versions of all the pics or do I just need to view them all once as “SinglePic”
    3) Will CacheWP or SuperCache speed up SinglePic loading or is that just for whole pages?
    Thanks, Nicholas

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