generalnumpty

My reason was that on a pc 5 columns at 150-200 still results in slightly blurry thumbs but at the same thumb width and 6 columns then the thumbs would look better.

I am trying to keep the size of the whole page as small as I can so do want to have to go over 175/200 for the thumb size

With the column set at 5 I still get 2 wide on a mobile no matter what width I set the thumbs at. Unlike the fixed which cuts me down to1 column on a mobile anything over 150 wide thumbs setting.

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Lovely – yes it is working now. It just wasn’t working immediately after the update.
Great plug-in keep up the excellent work Arno.

BRILLIANT !!

I see you have edited your post to say its a known issue. How come your page works but mine does not — was it the latest update and your page has not got the update

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@bradvin That sounds great look forward to joining it.

Ok forget my last post because I wasn’t using firefox properly – with its inspector- network open I found that i need to scroll the whole page to get the full page Mb result.
Hope this is useful for others.
My old gallery setting was justified gallery
thumb height 330
row height 130
max row height 200%
For my large gallery this gave 5.20 Mb total page and with sharp thumbnail images
(yes this will depend on the optimised size of your images to start with )

Now for the same images and page but as a Masonry gallery with settings
5 columns
no gutter
Thumbnail 275 = slightly soft thumbnails but not blurred
I get 3.30 Mb

My above settings were chosen because with the justified gallery it gives an average of 7 images wide on a computer and so not too small – which then translates to 2 images wide on a mobile.
Anything less than my settings for the justified gallery resulted in only 1 image being displayed on a mobile (defeats the object of a justified gallery display) my settings above resulted in a 2 image wide display on a mobile.

With the justified gallery I could not find a combination of settings that would give me at least 2 images wide on a mobile at size not too small on a computer and reasonably sharp thumbs that resulted in any less than 5.20 Mb for the page. (my page my images just for reference)

However with the masonry gallery and the above settings for it the display on a computer was 5 images wide ( so bigger than justified ) and also 2 images wide on a mobile – same as justified. with the resulting page size of 3.30Mb.

So I am happy with the settings with my masonry gallery.

I did notice something else with the two galley’s
I said my settings resulted in 2 images wide on a mobile with a justified gallery BUT that was only the case if I had a portrait image next to a landscape image – if i didn’t then on a mobile it would still display as 1 image stacked.

But a masonry gallery works much better and so long as there are a couple of portrait orientated images the gallery will display 2 image wide on a mobile.

I just wish I could also get a thin border on a masonry gallery as the border size “thin” is still too thick for me.
With the justified gallery I can set the margins to “1” which results in a nice thin hairline border just enough to differentiate between each image.

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Great thanks for helping me understand.
I am using firefox and had to look up up how to do the same thing on there.
At 150 slightly blurry I get 1.64 Mb and at 250 not pin sharp but good I get 2.31Mb.

I don’t need the thumbs pin sharp cause they are just thumbs with a promise of a bigger image when they are tapped but at the same time I dont want them to look rubbish.

I will have a play to get the best compromise.

Sorry here it is again

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