Title: Need a preloader!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Need a preloader!

 *  [vanuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanuch/)
 * (@vanuch)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-a-preloader/)
 * Hello! Hopefully I made a right choice of subforum. If not, then I’m sorry.
 * I’ve been looking for something to solve my need, but haven’t found anything 
   suitable. The problem is as follows:
 * I have a Nextgen Gallery plugin installed and I use it with Shutter Reloaded 
   to show images (used to be Lightbox2, but it really doesn’t matter here as for
   I am concerned). Galleries are insterted to pages (one gallery for each page).
   Some bigger galleries have up to 200-300 pictures and as I’m not a big fan of
   splitting them up into multible pages, it might take a while to load the thumbnails.
   And if they aren’t loaded yet, neither the Shutter Reloaded nor the Lightbox2
   will show and the image is simply opened in a blank backround aka ‘oldschool’.
   And I don’t want that. I have AJAXed up my blog anyway, so I would really-REALLY
   like to have a modification or even better – a seperate plugin that would call
   out an overlay-preloader until all the content on the page (thumbnails etc) are
   loaded. A independent seperate plugin for that would be ideal. So I could configure
   it on what to preload etc. It would be nice to deny users the access to the page
   being preloaded until it is done (maybe even darken the page – the backround 
   of the preloader in this case). A seperate plugin would also allow the plugin
   to be used for all the pages in a blog, if needed. Or it would be also nice to
   be able to specify on which pages the preloader would work on. I would like to
   be able to change the text/images of the preloader in the configuration etc. 
   Maybe even a more advanced option to tell the preloader plugin to preload even
   the full sized images on a page/gallery? Well, that might be something too much
   to wish for nor is it vital for this preloader as Shutter Reloaded also preloades
   a couple images in advance. Anyway… Thumbnails and/or page to be preloaded is
   a must for me.
 * This is the plugin I’m looking for. If there is such already, I have missed it(
   the search in google and in here haven’t been of any help so far). So please,
   PLEASE point it out to me, if it excists or perhaps someone could make me one..?
 * Looking forward for any assistance,
    Vanuch (Valle) from foto.yellout.net

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 *  [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-a-preloader/#post-685660)
 * That’s not very simple to do… You can put a style on the body tag, something 
   like
 *     ```
       background : black;
       opacity : 0.3;
       ```
   
 * and then add another javascript to run onload to reset the css back to normal(
   check the proper opacity syntax for IE on the net, it’s different).
 * The problem is that if your visitors have javascript disabled, the body will 
   remain dark. Of course you can put a noscript tag with big friendly letters: “
   Please enable Javascript” or similar, but If someone is browsing without js, 
   it’s not very likely to enable it to see the page, so you end up loosing visitors…
 *  Thread Starter [vanuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanuch/)
 * (@vanuch)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-a-preloader/#post-685661)
 * Thanks for the reply.
 * Well you gave me some ideas on what to do. The only problem is, that I’m not 
   very familiar with JavaScript and it could take me endless hours to make this
   work and even then probably not very well. Maybe someone will still be up to 
   making the plugin? 🙂
 * And I don’t worry too much about visitors who have JavaScript disabled. WEB 2.0
   and stuff use a lot of it and I believe that won’t be a problem. And I’m not 
   sure I would be able to work around it either, so…
 * And what concerns about some different script for IE then I’ve heard of it but
   I’ve never tried it.

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 * Last reply from: [vanuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vanuch/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-a-preloader/#post-685661)
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