Title: NextGEN Lite Version?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# NextGEN Lite Version?

 *  [randykepple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randykepple/)
 * (@randykepple)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-lite-version/)
 * WordPress up to date? YES
    NextGEN up to date? YES
 * (please confirm the following, with your server host tech) :
    MySQL up to date(
   5.2.4)? 5.1.65-cll PHP up to date (5.0)? 5.3.18 The mod_rewrite Apache module
   activated? YES PHP Safe Mode OFF? YES Memory usage : 37.31 MByte
 * and if you’re willing to share:
    Who are you hosted with? Westhost (best tech
   support in the industry) What theme are you running? ProPhoto Blog Which plugins
   do you have installed and activated? Does this error still occur if you switch
   your theme to the WP default, and deactivate all plugins except NextGEN Gallery?(*
   be sure to clear your browser cache and reload your site after deactivating)
 * We’ve been using NextGEN for years on our collaborative blog: [http://www.myportlandphotographer.com](http://www.myportlandphotographer.com).
   We have 15-20 contributors that post daily images and it’s been a wonderful tool
   to help us give each contributor an easy way to manage their database of images
   without affecting anyone else.
 * Additionally, it’s been great because when someone uploads an image that’s too
   big, it automatically scales it to the correct size on upload. And when someone
   leaves, it’s an easy way to migrate their images to an archive account.
 * However, over the years, we’ve noticed a huge demand on server cpu and memory.
   Mostly from the dynamic processes that happen with NextGEN. I’ve written a lot
   to this forum over the years, asking for help to no avail.
 * Seems that every 48+ hours, our server account is being throttled due to server
   overages (cpu and memory). We’ve been working a very long time trying to discover
   what’s causing the issue. We know it’s not WP or any of the other plugins we’re
   using. Everything comes back to NextGEN. We can’t disable to test since that 
   shuts down our site.
 * Further, we honestly don’t use more than a fraction of the tools available in
   NextGEN. The ONLY features we use are the image database for each person and 
   the short code function for posting.
 * We don’t use the slideshow, I’d love to turn off the lightbox feature and disable
   the clicking to bring the image into a single window, just have them display 
   inline at size. We don’t use ANY of the other options.
 * It would be nice to have a ‘LITE’ version or at least a version that allows you
   to disable the features you don’t use. What I’m going after is a lean, mean plugin
   with very low overhead on the server. Small amount of code and stripped down 
   to the bare bones.
 * Is there any way to do this?
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  Thread Starter [randykepple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randykepple/)
 * (@randykepple)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-lite-version/#post-3281272)
 * Just ran another plugin check this morning:
    P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)–
   0.0072 sec – 1.19% Akismet – 0.0045 sec – 0.74% Cron View – 0.0012 sec – 0.20%**
   Nextgen Gallery – 0.5735 sec – 94.06% Pinterest “Pin It” Button Lite – 0.0062
   sec – 1.01% Q and A – 0.0171 sec – 2.80%
 * This plugin is killing load times on our site and destroying our CPU and Memory
   on the server.

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## Tags

 * [cpu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cpu/)
 * [limits](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/limits/)
 * [lite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lite/)
 * [nextgen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nextgen/)

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 * Last reply from: [randykepple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randykepple/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextgen-lite-version/#post-3281272)
 * Status: not resolved