Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Slow loading Thumbnail
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Slow loading Thumbnail

 *  [phal51](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phal51/)
 * (@phal51)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-slow-loading-thumbnail/)
 * I have a series of single image galleries. The thumbnail is slow to load and 
   places an white box that is drawn in from top to bottom. Not very attractive.
   Is there a was to change the way it draws in. I originally had the pop-up inages
   750 pixels wide and reduced the size to under 500 pixels wide. They draw a bit
   quicker, but still with ugly white panel and I’ve lost viewing quality. Is there
   a way to preload the images? Thanks.
 * Heres’ a link to the features.
    [http://mapxpress.net/wordpress/features-of-mapxpress-the-portal/](http://mapxpress.net/wordpress/features-of-mapxpress-the-portal/)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [Christi Nickerson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christini/)
 * (@christini)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-slow-loading-thumbnail/#post-2380867)
 * Hi phal51,
 * I’m sorry but we really wouldn’t be able to help with mapxpress.net as it doesn’t
   appear to be a WordPress plugin or even licensed under GPL. It sounds like the
   image you are creating a thumbnail of is quite large and could be causing the
   issue with
 * > The thumbnail is slow to load and places an white box that is drawn in from
   > top to bottom.
 * You will want to make sure that your image is optimized before you upload it.
   I would recommend resizing the image to whatever you want the final full size
   image to be on the site, then uploading it.
 * Hope this helps!
 *  Thread Starter [phal51](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phal51/)
 * (@phal51)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-slow-loading-thumbnail/#post-2380899)
 * The website is a wp site using catalyst theme. The pop-up uses nextgen gallery.
   I thought I was posting on to the nextgen forum.
 * The images are only 40 – 80 KB already optimized smaller than I’d like.
 * Thanks for your input.

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 * Last reply from: [phal51](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phal51/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-slow-loading-thumbnail/#post-2380899)
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