NextGEN Resize – Wordpress Plugin to Resize NextGEN gallery images on the fly.
Current Version: 0.1b
NextGEN Resize is plugin that resizes your pictures, photos while they upload, on the fly depending on the options set using the NextGEN Resize control panel screen. It also resizes all images pre-existing or otherwise in a NextGen Gallery on a click of a button! This plugin requires Alex Rabe’s- NextGEN Gallery Plugin, without which the NextGEN Resize plugin simply will not work.
NextGEN Resize, says it all 
– Every time you upload any and all images, it would resize them on the fly based on the options set on the settings page.
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Features:
1. Easy/Simple to use.
2. Resize images, reduce their size and dimensions on the fly, while using NextGEN
3. Flexible settings, set dimentions, etc.
4. Easy to switch on and off.
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Hey, your plug in is awesomeness except…it just randomly stopped working. I’m trying to sort it out and haven’t met with any success so here I am, begging guidance.
ON MY KNEES BEGGING
Hi Vange,
I did love to help you with this, could you let me have a look at what’s happening on your end?
Okay, here is a screen shot of the error in action:
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5341/picture1651page2havenof.png
Our content area is 560 pixels max. The settings for the plug in are:
Resize Images: Yes
Resize by :width
Pixels: 500
Height Pixels: 0
Our NG plug in itself settings look like this:
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/9346/optionssuperficialgalle.png
Is there any way to make it that NG does not change the actual size or the displayed size of the images at all?
I appreciate any guidance you can provide–I’m losing it over this glitch and I love love love this tool!
Hi Vange,
Could you please tell me if there is an error? I can’t find any screenshot that tells me what’s happening, could you please mail me login details? so I can check for myself. Thanks!
Hello,
I’m sure this plug-in is great!
At the moment when I try to activate I get this error message…..
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
Any help would be most appreciated.
Regards,
Nancie
Do you mind if I had a look? You can mail me and we can discuss the error further.
Hi Foo,
I’m so new to this so please excuse me if I’m in the wrong place.
If you go to my website, all my ‘vertical’ images are displayed incorrectly in the gallery if you are using ’slideshow’ (they are fine if you click on them or watch them using CoolIris)…
So does this plugin of yours help to display my vertical images correctly, or is it simply a faster way of uploading images to the gallery in an optimum size (I currently use a Photoshop action to ensure all my images are resized to the proper dimensions for NextGen gallery).
Here’s the deal: If you can help me get my vertical images to resize properly in the NextGen Gallery, you will have enough beer for some time – which may slow your development down and give you a fat arse, but hey, that’s what beers is for!
Namaste and Danjabat Baya.
Hey Richard, why don’t you mail me and I can work on the image display for you. Thanks!
I’ll second what “WhiteSphynX” said. I think the plugin is okay as it stands but the functionality is required so you can upload both landscape and portrait photos and for them to get resized accordingly. In it’s current state if you have both portrait and landscape and then set the height to say 640px – then the landscape photos are going to be 853×640 and the landscape 640×480.
Hi Alan,
Will make sure the next release has the same. The new version will be out next week, this week a new version of the other plugin is going live….
Hi, Do you have any idea of when the next version of Nextgen resize will be available?
Will the resize work regardless of which image library is being used? I know NG ships with GD as the default, but I’m using ImageMagick; does this matter?
Hi Ian,
I think it should, but the functions used in the plugin require GD 1.8 for a minimum that much I know. Why don’t your try it, and see if it works.
Hi DesignerFoo-
Great plugin it has been extremely useful.
However I started getting the following error and not for sure how long it has been going on, any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Warning: imagecreatetruecolor() [function.imagecreatetruecolor]: Invalid image dimensions in /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-resize/simpleimage.php on line 82
Warning: imagecopyresampled(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-resize/simpleimage.php on line 83
Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-resize/simpleimage.php on line 40
I deleted and reinstalled to no avail.
-Thanks, Bryan
Ok, What are you setting the width and/or the height as in the settings pane?
Hi Bryan,
Try the new version 1.3b which is out, may be that would help. Thanks!
The Update worked, Great Job, and very timely update for me
-Thanks
Thanks for the donation Bryan That really means something to me, not the money part of it, but the fact that you are the first person to donate thanks a ton!
Wow the very first? some of you need to step up 
, come on what’s a beer. You’ld buy a friend a beer… does your friend spend his spare time building you a plugin that saves you time and makes your life a lill’ easier?
Thanks Bryan really )))
Thanks for creating this plugin, it’s exactly what I was looking for!
One question. Is there any way to only downsize, but not upsize? I have folders with mixed sized images. I’d like the big ones to be sized down, but I don’t want the smaller ones to be made bigger and possibly distored. Just wanted to ask in case I’m missing it!
Great plugin, thanks!
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the pat on the back! Currently no but I am working on it. You can select a particular width/height and if its above that or above a particular size, it would only then resize it. Thanks! I would request you join the facebook fan page and spread the word about the plugin. Thanks!
here’s my version that does the larger of width or height:
http://www.scriptkiddie.org/nextgen-resize-both.tar.gz
feel free to incorporate if you like.
Already have a version which does that, thanks for the share really appreciate it!
I think that you might want to bump up max_execution_time/max_input_time and upload_max_filesize in php.ini for this plugin. My changes compared with php’s defaults look like this:
max_execution_time = 1500
max_input_time = 1500
memory_limit = 512M
post_max_size = 128M
upload_max_filesize = 1G
max_file_uploads = 1024
Its kind of annoying how php ships by default with limits that are extremely limiting to try to avoid abuse (and which were generally more appropriate back in 1999), which then tends to prevent what you want to do. Some of the limits that I’ve set indicate that I’d rather debug abusive issues when they occur than deal with continually running into php’s defaults.
Anyway, I know I had to tweak one of those to get nextgen-resize to work.
I also hacked up the previous version of nextgen-resize to take a “both” argument instead of just fixed height or width. Love to see this feature so that I don’t have to maintain a fork.
Hey Lamont,
Thanks, I have already incorporated the same in the new version so you may not need to maintain the fork I am also working on a major upgrade have a great day and thanks a ton!
First of all, this plugin should beexactly what i need. It doesn’t work though for me. I’m getting the following error every time: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7776 bytes) in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-resize/simpleimage.php on line 31
Hi Edwin,
I have made changes to the code to accomodate for this error. But if it persists you would have allocate more memory to PHP. Althought now it shouldn’t you can download the new version from wordpress, ver 1.2b.
Hope this helps. Have a great day!
Trying to use your plugin but it does not seem to work. I have images that were uploaded at 4200 x 2800 px and the resize option does not do so – just get an error message. On trying to upload imaes with the plugin enabled the images are not resized either, they remain at 1.3Mb size. I have tried the width and the height and width settings enabled at 800 and 600px but nether option seems to work. Any suggestions?
Could I check? if you don’t mind mailing me the admin login? I can check the same for you.
Thx Designerfoo you rock!
Thanks for the hard work.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I kept getting a memory error when trying to resize using the NextGen native tool. This works like a charm!
Hi Alicia,
Glad it saved you time! Have a great day and thanks for using the plugin!
Does it work with NextGEN’s upload a zipfile option?
Hi Kzutter,
Nope, not yet. Sorry, will try to put in the next release though.
Be nice to have the option to adjust the ‘longer’ or ’shorter’ image lengths to account for vertical vs horizontal photos.
Thx
WSX
Hi,
I think that option has been given, if you look at the settings pane for the plugin you can opt to resize based on height or width. Hope this helps!
Might want to read the comment a little closer.
I see the Height and Width functions. I’m looking for one that will adjust the Longer or Shorter dimensions.
Maybe its vague for some so I will explain.
Say I have 5 photos and 3 are 640px wide and 480 px wide, 2 are 480px wide and 640px high. If I choose adjust the width to say 1024px wide then the 640px wide photos will be formated correctly to 1024×768 but the ‘vertical’ pictures which are 480px wide will now be 1024px wide and like 1600px high.
Get it? Probably just need a loop in the code to check which is the longer length then give an option in the plug in to adjust it. Otherwise, at least for my purposes, its kinda useless and I might as well just edit my photos before I upload them or I have to do them in select groups which again defeats the usefulness of the plug-in.
For a good example of this download Photoscape, a great open source photo and image editor, and check the resize funtions. It has both options.
I mean this comment strictly to help give feedback to make this great concept of a plug-in a more useful and better functioning one.
ThX
WSX
Hi,
Will try to put this in with the next release! Thanks!
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Hi! Turns out the issue Vange and I had with the display was due to the 100% width in the default style sheet on the singe pic view. Once I took that out the page stopped stretching the images.
Thanks!