Hi,

did you set this settings in Configuration Manager to 'No':
Category View >> General Settings >> Show Comments
and
Category View >> General Settings >> Show Ratings

Hi,

...I hope this helps someone or gets added to the core.

the best would be if you submit the proposal to Github: https://github.com/JoomGallery/JoomTreeView

Hi,

...I hope this helps someone or gets added to the core.

the best would be if you submit the proposal to Github: https://github.com/JoomGallery/JoomCategories

Hi,

to 2:
That should work already. If you use GD2 as image processor, you should use

Code:

imageinterlace($dst_img, true);

the thumbnail and the detail image are stored interlaced.

to 3:
Tools like jpegtran or jpegoptim are external libraries that are not installed on most servers. I myself do not know any possibility to integrate external tools like jpegtran or jpegoptim.
Which is of course always possible: download the images, edit them with the respective tool and then upload again.

to 1. and "is there any way to "losslessly compress" the images using GD, GD2, or ImageMagick?"
JPEG is inherently a lossy format. Compression with this image tools normally installed on the servers, such as GD2 and imagemagick, always results in quality losses.

I have installed Joomgallery v 3.3.4 on a new Joomla 3.9.1 site (PHP 7.2).

I am using the default view in category view, but I unable to turn off the Comments and ratings. I think I have turned their options to "No" everywhere, but they still appear in the front end.

Any thoughts appreciated.

JoomSEF even has a special extension (paid) for JoomGallery but it is still terrible for seo. NONE of the gallery images can be indexed for search as images.

index.php?view=image&format=raw&type=orig&id=7750&option=com_joomgallery
...vs...
/gallery/image.jpg

I had some success with "Image SEF URLs" but I would like to use the other benefits of a sef extension.

Has anyone discovered a way to use both?

Can something be done to the JoomSEF JoomGallery extension to make it work? A hack perhaps?

Can anything be done to JoomGallery to make them work?

I love JoomGallery and have used it for years on different projects but it sure would be nice if it supported some modern features, or worked just a little better on some things. Thanks everyone!

It was suggested that all images have dimensions and alt for better seo.

I made these changes on node images in /media/mod_jgtreeview/js/dtree.js

<img src="' + ( (this.aIndent[n] == 1 && this.config.useLines) ? this.icon.line : this.icon.empty ) + '" alt="Tree Node" width="16" height="16" />

I hope this helps someone or gets added to the core.

It was suggested that all images have dimensions and alt for better seo.

In /modules/mod_joomcat/helper.php around line 1000, I changed it to this...

$output   .= '    <img src="'.$this->_ambit->getImg($imgtype, $img, null, 0, true, $cropimgwidth, $cropimgheight, $cropimgpos).'" class="jg_photo'.$class.'" alt="'.$img->imgtitle.'"'.$extra.' width="'.$cropimgwidth.'" height="'.$cropimgheight.'" />';

I hope this helps someone or gets added to the core.

I would like a better score on PageSpeed. It wants the images to be "losslessly" compressed.

1. One suggestion I found was to set the quality to 100% and that would be lossless, but that did not work.

2. Another suggestion was to make the files "interlaced." I added an entry to administrator/components/com_joomgallery/helpers/file.php but that didn't resolve the issue either.

imageinterlace($dst_img, true);

3. I found this suggestion as well...

Several tools are available that perform further, lossless compression on JPEG and PNG files, with no effect on image quality. For JPEG, we recommend jpegtran or jpegoptim (available on Linux only; run with the --strip-all option). For PNG, we recommend OptiPNG or PNGOUT.

Are these viable options?

How would they be integrated with JoomGallery?

Is there any way to "losslessly compress" the images using GD, GD2, or ImageMagick?

Great, if it works again now.
But I would only have been interested in how the problem arose.