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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
While reading all the threads related to galleries or plugins, I’d like to bring up a caveat.
Easy styling, nice admin areas with Ajax and other features are all great but many of these small galleries suffer from one fatal flaw, they store all the thumbnails in one directory.
With today’s digital cameras, you can shoot 100 photos in a day very easily. Pretty soon your gallery grows and your thumbnail directory becomes unmanageable. For every picture you upload, a gallery may generate from 1 to 3 thumbnail representations. Depending on the Operating System, directories with 5000 or more files become a pain to backup, clean up or worst, read effectively.
About two years ago, I went searching for a minimal gallery app, Gallery or Coppermine were overkill for my needs. I settled on the singapore gallery, since I could ftp my images to a directory structure and it would build the thumbnails on the fly, it was ideal for my needs. Tamlyn realized the thumbnail problem a while back on singapore and the new version will keep the thumbnails in directories depending on the album structure. Photostack decided to begin anew with the singapore code base as the basis for it’s new version.
Of all the galleries, I like what I see in Plogger but it too suffers from the thumbnails in one directory syndrome as does ZenPhoto.
Even though you think your gallery won’t grow, it will, trust me.
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