Title: Loading message
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Loading message

 *  Resolved [NativePaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativepaul/)
 * (@nativepaul)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/)
 * Some of the galleries I’m loading have a lot of images so it can take a while
   for the plugin to kick in.
 * Would be great if the plugin displayed a loading message before the gallery fades
   in.
 * Is there an easy way to do this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jquery-masonry-image-gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jquery-masonry-image-gallery/)

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 *  Plugin Author [phoenixMagoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixmagoo/)
 * (@phoenixmagoo)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232552)
 * Hmmm. This isn’t the hardest thing to do, and I’m def. going to be adding a Loading
   message in the next release that I hope to push out sometime around the WordPress
   4.0 release.
 * You could try adding something like this to your CSS for right now:
 *     ```
       . gallery:after {
             display: block;
             content: 'Loading...';
   
       }
   
       .gallery.jmig-img-loaded:after {
            content: ' ';
            display: none;
       }
       ```
   
 * So basically that would jam some CSS generated content into the page as the gallery
   loads, and then hide it when the gallery is 100% loaded.
 * Let me know how it works out!
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [NativePaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativepaul/)
 * (@nativepaul)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232584)
 * Thanks. I actually tried using both :before and :after elements before asking
   this questions.
 * Unfortunately that didn’t work because the pseudo elements adopt the display 
   properties of the gallery. So despite the display:block property it won’t be 
   visible until the .gallery element is.
 * It’s not urgent so I’ll look forward to the next release.
 *  [onedigitalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onedigitalfarm/)
 * (@onedigitalfarm)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232725)
 * Did you find a solution to this issue? I have the same problem and I would really
   appreciate some help. Thank you!
 *  Thread Starter [NativePaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nativepaul/)
 * (@nativepaul)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232726)
 * Unfortunately I never found a solution to the loading message and ended up with
   a completely different layout in the end.
 * Not sure if phoenixMagoo had any luck adding it in to the plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [phoenixMagoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixmagoo/)
 * (@phoenixmagoo)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232727)
 * Hey there,
 * I’m actually working on a Lazy Load option for the plugin that should greatly
   reduce load time for larger galleries. [You can see a working example here](http://jmig.willrees.com/).
 * I hope to push this out in the next couple of months. If you can’t wait that 
   long, then you are more than welcome to beta test this plugin.
 * Just let me know if you are interested and I will send you the files.
 * Thanks!
 *  [onedigitalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onedigitalfarm/)
 * (@onedigitalfarm)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232728)
 * Thanks for the replies!
 * I would love to beta test the plugin. It works great in the working example. 
   My email is [roberto@onedigitalfarm.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/roberto@onedigitalfarm.com?output_format=md)
 * Best
 *  Plugin Author [phoenixMagoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixmagoo/)
 * (@phoenixmagoo)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232729)
 * If you want, for now, you can replace the following code in: /wp-content/plugins/
   jquery-masonry-image-gallery/js/masonry-init-v3.js
 * with the code in this file:
 * [http://jmig.willrees.com/wp-content/plugins/jquery-masonry-image-gallery/js/masonry-init-v3.js?ver=2.2](http://jmig.willrees.com/wp-content/plugins/jquery-masonry-image-gallery/js/masonry-init-v3.js?ver=2.2)
 * I’m going to start folding the new functionality into the plugin this weekend,
   will hopefully have a much nicer beta experience next week.
 * Thanks!
 *  [onedigitalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onedigitalfarm/)
 * (@onedigitalfarm)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232730)
 * It works beautifully! Thank you!!!!
 *  Plugin Author [phoenixMagoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixmagoo/)
 * (@phoenixmagoo)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232731)
 * Cool! Can you shoot me a link so I can check it over?
 * Thanks!
 *  [onedigitalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onedigitalfarm/)
 * (@onedigitalfarm)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-message/#post-5232732)
 * I use the plugin for all the galleries in this website:
    [http://forwardartists.com](http://forwardartists.com).
 * For instance: [http://forwardartists.com/alex-polillo-portfolio/](http://forwardartists.com/alex-polillo-portfolio/)
 * The images are actually pulled from an external service called photoshelter.
 * Thanks again for your timely support.

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