NextGen Slideshow Shrinking Images

dannylee11
(@dannylee11)

11 years, 10 months ago

I’ve downloaded and installed the latest version of NextGen Gallery. I’m attempting to place a slideshow gallery on the homepage using the jquery option. I’m uploading test images that are 800×533 in dimension. I have the option to resize images upon upload enable to 800×533. I’ve inserted the slideshow to my homepage, however when i view the homepage the slideshow is there but all my images have been shrunken down to thumbnail size? I’ve been attempting to solve this issue for a few hours and have been looking through forums attempting to figure out why my images keep getting resized down to thumbnails. I’ve deleted and re-uploaded the images to galleries several times, and just when i think its actually working… i refresh my browser and boom, they are all shrunken down again. I’ve been testing on different computers in the house and getting the same results. I’ve spent far too long trying to figure this out when it should have been a simple task to add a slideshow. This is my last resort before i begin looking at other options. I’d like to make nextgen my permanent solution for future clients, but if its this difficult to implement a basic slideshow with basic settings… Please if someone can show me im just slow and overlooking something easy then I would be sooo happy! Can anyone out there help me out? You can see my progress at http://www.daniellee.us/prototype1

https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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Thread Starter dannylee11
(@dannylee11)

11 years, 10 months ago

As a side note.. when the page is loading at first, it appears like the images are going to display correctly… the page renders with enough space for the 800×533 and I can see a large “loading” logo in the middle of the page. But then when the page finally loads, all the extra space disappears and replaced with a tiny thumbnail of my larger images.

Plugin Contributor photocrati
(@photocrati)

11 years, 10 months ago

@dannylee11 – Artisteer generated themes tend to have their own little quirks about them which is what I suspect is the issue here.

Try setting the height of the slideshow’s HTML container to the same height as the images and see if that helps to sort out the issue you are seeing?

Thanks!

– Cais.

Thread Starter dannylee11
(@dannylee11)

11 years, 10 months ago

Thanks a million for replying to this! I did attempt to edit my div container and set the height accordingly… sadly, however, it did not fix the issue. The content area itself did extended to the height that I designated. But the slideshow still shrank down to thumbnails, and now i have a bigger and still empty content area. I tried messing with the html and css to see if I could figure something else out, but I guess in the end Artisteer’s code is doesn’t work very well with the NextGen Slideshow, and there isn’t an easy way to deal with it. For this particular project, I’m going with another slideshow that worked fine on the first try. I will still use NextGen in the future with other project so long as I can get Artisteer and NextGen to play nice. Just curious though… how were you able to view the code and determine that it was created using artisteer? I think the fact you can tell is more intriguing to me at this point lol. Thanks again for the help!

-Danny

Plugin Contributor photocrati
(@photocrati)

11 years, 10 months ago

@dannylee11 – Thanks for the follow-up!

Viewing the page source, you will often see many different classes starting with art- which is fine as it does help to provide unique classes but under most best practices those prefixes should be reflecting the theme name (or “slug”) as a more appropriate prefix.

The biggest give-away though is found near the top of the page and is a dead give-away: 

– Cais.

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