Wriging

I've been having a look at the gallery feature in Wordpress 2.5 and it has a few rough edges. After uploading a large image, it says 'crunching'. If you do that several times, you end up with a number of images. You can then say insert gallery in to your post and, if you've set your thumbnail sizes to fit in with your theme, then that part looks quite nice.

When you click on a thumbnail, you get taken to a new page for post attachments, and there is a theme template for this which is good. But, this page does a few things that seem a bit funny.

Firstly, I thought that the crunching part when you uploaded only created a thumbnail and that's it. The reason I thought that was because on the attachment page, it uses the original upload, but uses HTML tags to view it in a smaller size. So, this page takes a long time to display and the image looks rough.

When I look in the folder on my server though, I can see that it did actually generate medium size images that are ideal for that page!

If I knew what I was doing I'd alter how that page works to use the generated image instead of the large one. As it is, I imagine this will be fixed in a future release.

If anyone has already looked at this I'm all ears! - otherwise I'll drink some coffees and get my coding hatchet out one night this week to have a go! :)