@matoca – Are you using a widget or a shortcode in your side bar to display the images?
Either way, can you provide the specific (settings/parameters) for what you are using so we can get a better sense of what is happening? Also, a link to a page showing the display may also be helpful.
Thanks!
– Cais.
Thread Starter
Matoca
(@matoca)
Cais,
I am sorry I mislead you by mentioned the slide show, this problem has nothing to do with that.
For your information, I use a NextGEN slideshow widget in the sidebar and point it to the gallery. That is working perfectly and does present oldest to newest as it changes images. When I Manage Gallery, the images are placed oldest to newest on each page, that is fine too. I use Image Uploader in the sidebar and when that uploads an image, it places the image in the gallery to be the newest one, on the last page.
This problem occurs when I am writing in the standard WP Edit page, post, topic or reply editor.
After I place my cursor where I want the image, I select Insert Media. A popup shows me the resources I can use to insert media(insert WP media, insert from url etc.) I select insert from NextGEN gallery. Then I select the gallery I want to find the image in from the drop down menu. At this point I am presented with 16 pages of images (currently) in this gallery where I have to search for the image I want to insert.
These images are not presented in alphabetical order, nor are they in newest first, oldest first, size, or any other order I can figure out. I have to browse through 16 pages each time trying to find the most recent image I have added to the gallery, which seems to be randomly placed. Each page needs to load off the server and it just takes forever trying to find them. It could be on page 5 or 11. It is never on the last page, 16.
I am hoping there is some way to set this so that the images come up newest first on page 1 or page 16. It would save a lot of time and the moderators would be more willing to help with images. Right now it is too confusing for them to find the image they need.
Thank you,
Matoca
@matoca – Thanks for explaining that more thoroughly, it makes much more sense … unfortunately we do not have any method to change that sort order at this time.
You are more than welcome to suggest it as a Feature Request here: http://nextgen-gallery.com/feature-voting/
Thanks!
– Cais.
Thread Starter
Matoca
(@matoca)
Hi Cais,
I submitted a feature request several months ago. I am wondering if anything had been talked about?
This is really a very difficult problem for me. In order to place the newest image from a gallery into a reply or topic in WP, I may have spend anywhere from 20 sec to 1 min waiting for each group of 10 images to load in the Insert Media>NextGEN gallery window in order to see if the new image is in that group of 10.
I have about 170 images in this gallery of dogs, so that works out to 17 groups of 10. So it can take me up to 20 min to find the newest image and put it in a reply. If I only knew how NextGEN is ordering the images, it would really help me spend less time in this process.
In addition, when each group of 10 in the gallery is presented to select from, it is displayed as “<<previous 123…789 next>>” etc. I can’t jump around easily, so for instance I can’t select 6 until I have selected 3, so that means I have to wait for 3 to load. I can’t type in a group number of 10 images at all. So if I want to look at 17, I have to view at least 4 other groups of 10 before 17 is available.
All this reloading takes forever. I have found I need to multitask so I don’t go out of my mind staring at the screen waiting. Then I get lost and forget what I was doing with the images 20 minutes later.
Please let me know if you have any solutions as workarounds?
My best
Matoca
@matoca – We do not have any specific solution/work-around and Feature Requests are considered on both their merits and the community feedback we receive for them on our Feature Request page.
All I can suggest at the moment is to update to the latest version of NextGEN Gallery and hopefully its performance improvements will reduce your wait times.
Thanks!
– Cais.
