[Plugin: Dynamic Content Gallery] How to use Timthumb for faster site speed

I would like to help others who use this plugin, but want to have a faster load speed.

This plugin uses the full size images from galleries, so it’s a lot better to have images just the size of the slideshow.

For that I used timthumb.php and just a small modification of the plugin in includes/dfcg-gallery-core.php, line 467:

$output_temp = get_bloginfo('template_url').'/timthumb.php?zc=1&q=80&a=c&src='.$image[0].'&w=538&h=250&siteName=devsally';
    $output = $output_temp;//$image[0];
    //as we have the full size image urls, we will use timthumb to minimize them;
    //it'a a lot more efficient to have smaller images

As you can see, I have timthumb.php in the theme folder. Each should configure timthumb as needed; in this case, I crop the images, but uzinc zc=2 will scale down images and fill the spaces with black color.

You can see it on http://drumliber.ro.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dynamic-content-gallery-plugin/