I wasn’t familiar with the ability to drag-and-drop media items in the existing media modal, so I just went and checked it out. The only dragging I see happening is when you’ve created a gallery — then you can drag to sort items within that gallery.
Its cool. And I could see it being very useful when we get to collections (sorta like folders/groupings of items), but otherwise I’m not sure drag-and-drop sorting is super useful in the main view. Especially if you have more then a few dozen items.
Thanks for the idea, and we’ll consider it when we start working on collections.
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skarck
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Thanks for getting back. There is actually another case when drag&drop occurs that is somehow related to my use case:
When you select ‘Uploaded to this post’ in the media modal, you can order the attachments of this particular post. It’s handy when you want to display custom galleries based on attached (not embedded) images in the frontend via get_posts.
I thought about displaying all images loaded into the media library (not attached to any posts) on a special gallery template. Therefor the possibility to order the images would be great, but maybe it’s just a weird edge case…
