Optimizing the gallery field?

• kkyang

• May 14, 2015 at 4:55 am

I’m running into an issue where I have a large image gallery on a single page that’s exhausting the servers memory when the page is loaded.

Are there best practices for optimizing image gallery fields?

• kkyang

• May 14, 2015 at 6:21 am

Here is an example of the query

http://screencast.com/t/RBHLJZQO

• James

• June 8, 2016 at 10:01 pm

Hi @kkyang,

Thanks a lot for reaching out to us.

This is most likely due to the size of the images in your gallery.

The gallery fields simply stores an array of ID/Links to the images and thus has little effect on the memory.

You could checkout plugins such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ that will help you out with optimizing the images.

I hope this helps.