Image re-ordering issue

  • tillish

    (@tillish)


    11 years, 8 months ago

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    The issue can be found here: http://www.chantelbetts.com/portfolio/weddings
    The preview works: Yes
    It works with other themes: No
    It works when I disable all other plugins: No

    Meta Slider version: 3.0.1
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    Details:
    When a new slider is created and images are added and re-ordered accordingly all other existing slider’s images reset back to un-ordered position. Essentially, anytime a new slider is added ALL slider images have to be re-ordered again even pre-existing sliders.

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  • matchalabs

    (@matchalabs)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi tillish,

    This is due to the way meta slider has been built.

    Behind the scenes, slides are just media files (aka attachments) with some extra meta data.

    The slide image is the media file image, the slide caption is the media file caption and so on. The sort order is stored in a default field called ‘menu_order’.

    This keeps things very tidy in the database (and makes it really simple for metaslider to pull out an pre-ordered list of slides for a slideshow), but a media file can only have 1 menu order. This is why, if you add the same media file to 2 slideshows, the menu_order will get overwritten when updating the slide order in either slideshow.

    The solution is to upload a duplicate media file if you wish to use it in a different slideshow, and have it in a different position.

    Regards,
    Tom.

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