That’s one way of doing it (not really recommended). Otherwise, each site will have a Bulk Optimize option under the Nextgen menu.
OK, I know the answer to this:
“I’m network site I added /home/profolio/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/ but will this optimize ALL sub folders?”
Answer is yes, but raises more questions. There needs to be an option (for multisite users) so NextGEN/NextCellent folders for a subsite are the ONLY images optimized by that Admin.
As it is, every time an Admin chooses Optimize Everything Else then ALL the folders/directories get optimized instead of just the images that Admin uploaded.
What’s the workaround? Select Optimize on Upload? But will this auto optimize when uploading to NextGEN/NextCellent?
“…each site will have a Bulk Optimize option under the Nextgen menu.”
I’m using NextCellent, I can’t find the Bulk Optimize option. Screenshot please? Thanks!
Do images uploaded to NextGEN/NextCellent galleries get auto optimized if that preference is selected? Or is that only for the WP Media Library?
That’s why adding your nextgen folder to “Folders to Optimize” is not the recommended way of optimizing nextgen/nextcellent. The Bulk Optimize for each site will only allow them to optimize their own images. Further, by activating the plugin network-wide, you make it so that individual site admins cannot change the settings either, so it prevents them from optimizing random folders within the root WP folder via Folders to Optimize.
All nextcellent photos are optimized on upload, with the exception of the thumbnails (because the nextcellent author has not seen fit to add a hook to permit thumbnail optimization on upload). After images are uploaded, a site user will see a button to optimize the thumbnails for the images that were just processed.
It just so happens that my multi-site testing install has Nextcellent installed, so here’s your screenshot: http://snag.gy/JQjCh.jpg
Thank you for the screenshot!
Unfortunately I don’t have that Bulk Optimize option listed… I’m using the latest beta version, been doing some testing for the author.
I will mention this to him, and also about thumbnail optimization on upload.
Thanks!
Do you have Nextcellent and EWWW both activated site-wide?
Where do you get the beta version? I’d like to take a look myself to see if there’s something I can do to fix the issue.
Also check to be sure your nextcellent folder is named ‘nextcellent-gallery-nextgen-legacy’, with a beta version, it’s possible that the folder name is not the same.
Hey sorry, I should have posted here immediately after getting a fix earlier today. The problem was I was using the latest beta of NextCellent and the plugin folder was named differently than the production plugin. https://bitbucket.org/niknetniko/nextcellent/downloads So once I renamed the plugin folder EWWW Bulk Optimize button appeared as it should and everything worked correctly.
I remember another plugin would not work with NextCellent so I changed the folder name to NextGENxxx and it worked.
Thanks for the great plugin! When I get my WP Network up and making some money I will definitely look into the Cloud option.
I think I know how to fix it. I thought my submenu hooks were causing the problem, but they use the NGGFOLDER constant just like all the Nextcellent core menu hooks. I think it is the check for actual activation of nextcellent that fails. Using the constant would probably fix the issue even if the folder WAS named differently.
Once I got into it a bit, realized there was a reason I never did that before. NGGFOLDER isn’t defined until after EWWW is loaded. Took a little bit more work, but I changed it so that the nextgen integration is loaded after ALL plugins have been loaded. Using the constant, plus the delayed loading allowed for cleaner code on the version detection too.
Sound great! As a pro photographer doing sites for other photographer optimized high quality images are a most! So thanks again.for your hard work!
