Question regarding standard slider for portfolio itme

[toni100]

i am using the standard slider gallery for portfolio items. it works really great but i have noticed that it is always loading all images before showing the first image – so if i have many images it will take a lot of time until i can see the first image.

and second how can i increase the 50 photos limit for standard slider…

thank you and please continue to develop dante – it is an awesome theme!!

[Tahir – SUPPORT]

Hi,
I Believe Ed would be better able to anwser this. Have assigned this thread to him.

Best,

Tahir

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi there,

Loading 50+ images into a slider is not recommended, and the slider won’t be able to initialise before all are loaded, unfortunately that is just the way Flexslider works.

I would recommend including them in a gallery shortcode within the page content, rather than in the slider.

For the limit, check /swift-framework/meta-boxes.php line 228:

'max_file_uploads' => 50,

– Ed

[toni100]

thank you ed – does the gallery work differently? because i am looking for a solution where the first image is shown instantly and every image is loaded when needed…

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

You’d need to implement a lazy load solution for that, which would negatively affect SEO.

The gallery shortcode uses smaller images, and then you can lightbox to the larger image in a gallery.

– Ed

[toni100]

hi ed – thank you – i have uploaded all files to galleries and it works fine…

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Great 🙂

– Ed

[crease]

Ed, If the page doesnt load in time what is the use of sending people there via SEO?

How would I go about adding Lazyload to the slider images?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

Sorry not quite sure what you’re asking there? The lazy load would be for the gallery, not the slider.

– Kyle

[crease]

Like the other user said. I am using the full width slider for the header slider for all my portfolio pages. Some have three images and some have 10-15 images. It feels like they wait for all image to load before showing the slider. This means The viewer starts reading all the content below and then BAM the images load in and they lose there place and get confused as the content they were reading gets shunted down the page. I wanted a solution (like lazy load) to load each image in turn so the slider loads in quicker and doesn’t interfere with the user experience. Can you advise on a solution to this?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Like Ed said, this is not possible. It’s just the way Flexslider works. Have you tried a CDN such as cloudflare?

– Kyle

[crease]

I will look into these options and see if it makes a difference to the load times. Thanks.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok no problem

– Kyle

[adamf]

Flexslider has an option (maybe a current addition) that allows lazyloading and preloading, is there a way to enable this for portfolios inside of functions.js?

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[Kyle – SUPPORT]

I’m not sure will check this with Ed

– Kyle