Cloudinary – Deliver Images and Videos at Scale vs NextGEN – Resize

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Subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe via Email, to know what other updates/plugins/themes I am releasing and to keep track of their updates. NextGEN Resize on Facebook NextGEN Resize is plugin that resizes the your pictures on the fly depending on the options set using the screen. This plugin requires Alex Rabe’s – NextGEN Gallery Plugin, without which the NextGEN Resize plugin simply will not work. NextGEN Resize, says it all 🙂 – Every time you upload any and all images, it would resize them on the fly based on the options set on the settings page. To report bugs/give feedback, please visit and comment on the wordpress plugin support page on the website. Tested with NextGEN Gallery 1.4.x and WP 2.8.x / 2.9 Features Easy/Simple to use. Resize images, reduce their size and dimensions on the fly, while using NextGEN Resize images in a gallery on a click of a button! Flexible settings, set dimentions, etc. Easy to switch on and off. Subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe via Email, to know what other updates/plugins/themes I am releasing Please note You will require a working installation of Alex Rabe’s – NextGEN Gallery Plugin, without which the NextGEN Resize plugin simply will not work.