I have a few questions about plugins.
- What plugins are required, if any to set up a gallery?
cacheManager - OK, I am nitpicky. I like having this
class-video - Need for video content
comment_form - need for comments
deprecated-functions - Do i need this
mobileTheme - for mobile to have different theme
multiple_layouts - OK, I see purpose
PHPMailer - for email
rss - Do i need this
security-logger - OK, I see purpose
site_upgrade - OK, I see purpose
slideshow2 - adds slideshow if theme does not have, correct?
uploader_http - Do i need this
userAddressFields - Do i need this
zenpage- what these does this support?
- I ran into a strange issue.. I created an album, copied in about 40 photos. this is part of a gallery with 1600 images already. As soon as I copied in the photos... Pow... ZP was hung up. Slow. Non responsive. albums not showing up.
in admin. Delete the photos and all goes back to normal.
Does ZP start processing pictures as soon as they are added? Should I have just waitned? if it isprocessing the photos, what is it doing?
I removed xmpMetadatamedia and openstreetmap, and all went back to normal. images don't cause things to hang up.
Zenphoto
Comments
First please don't not mix several unrelated questions in one topic in the future. It really gets inconvenient mixing all these. Thanks.
Not required. Please see: https://www.zenphoto.org/news/caching/
Not required, unless you want to use video and audio files.
Not required, unless you want to use commentts.
Not require as it's comment says if you are using official stuff.
Not required and outdate technology. For granted official thems are not responsive which is the way to go. But there are good 3rd party /half official themes for that.
Not required and the theme require special support.
Not required as zenphoto
Not required unless you want to provide RSS feed for your visitos to subscribe to naturally (which you should if the site is public)
Not required but useful.
No, a theme requires support for it. See the theming tutorial.
You need one of the uploader handler plugins enabled if you want to upload.
Not required at all.
https://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenpage-a-cms-plugin-for-zenphoto/
Second
Image processing is a memory and power consuming server task. Please see: https://www.zenphoto.org/news/problems-with-albums-and-images/
https://www.zenphoto.org/news/caching/
I cannot say if there is a relation but might as they naturally access image album data. But not necessarily.
Sorry about mixing questions.
As to processing. Say I have just created an album. I drop 100 photos into it. Nobody is on the website yet.
Is ZP start processing the images at that point?
As the article about caching tells. no.
How Zenphoto regonizes depends how you upload:
If you use the backend it knows about them since you upoad them via the system.
If you upload via FTP you bypass that and have to wait until they are discovered by visits on front or backend.
Zenphoto processes images sizes on request when someone visits the site. Generally Zenphoto does not even know which image sizes a theme or plugin may require. Any theme or plugin can request any size and registering to the cache manager is neither necessary nor required as it happens on the fly when needed.
If you upload lots of larges (dimensionwise) images at a time and your server cannot handle that you have to upload less at the time.
I would assume that if I run cacehmanager it will take care of that. Correct?
The cacheManager will pre-cache the image sizes that are registered.
Also to add to your list I recommend to use the static_html_cache.
thanks. Done