Long galleries

mbsharp
(@mbsharp)

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Version 4.0.5

When a number of images are loaded to a gallery, then the order after upload is never the same as the order in the source. Possibly multiple images uploaded interleaved. If a particular sort order is required, that means the gallery must be sorted after uploading.

If the number of images is >50 (page size), they can be uploaded in blocks, but now each new set is loaded in front of existing images and not following. So it is possible to load blocks in reverse.

But after all these possible workarounds, it is impossible to sort a long gallery. Images may be sortable within blocks of 50, but not between blocks. Even with the hack to use the legacy admin which allows viewing of a whole gallery for sorting, some images seem to be locked into groups where the order cannot be changed.

Many others have commented/complained about v4. It seems to have been a case of enforcing ‘form’ without considering or checking ‘function’.

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Thread Starter mbsharp
(@mbsharp)

2 months, 3 weeks ago

And in addition, when viewing the whole gallery, using the option to sort by filename says it has worked but it hasn’t. Likewise using the option to sort by alt text doesn’t work either.

Wen I have a long gallery I pre-arrange that the filenames are ascending and alt text matches the filenames. So, not happy about this.

Thread Starter mbsharp
(@mbsharp)

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Update:

The admin ‘hack’ reinstates ‘Nextgen’ as an option in the dashboard under ‘Imagely’. If galleries are managed via ‘Nextgen’, then sorting works OK, but sorting a gallery via ‘Imagely’ does not. That’s a bit sad and hopefully the ‘Nextgen’ option isn’t removed at least before ‘Imagely’ has been made to work properly.

Managing under ‘Nextgen’ also restores list view in galleries as has been requested by several others.
Plugin Support Mihai
(@mceban)

1 month ago
Hi @mbsharp ,

Thank you for reaching out and for your detailed fedback.

The change to pagination was intended to enhance performance and resolve timeout issues when loading large galleries as that was previously causing issues with the galleries completely failing to load within the new UI.

Although there isn’t a current built-in feature to adjust the number of images per page in the new gallery management UI, it’s certainly a potential feature for future development.

If you’re open to a custom solution, you can use the following PHP code to set a larger number of displayed images:
```
$options = get_option('ngg_options'); 
$options['item_details_per_page'] = 100; 
update_option('ngg_options', $options);
```
You can replace 100 with any number you prefer. Please note that setting a very high number might impact performance.

To add this code safely, I recommend using the WPCode plugin, which helps maintain security and manageability.

Please feel free to give it a try and let me know if that’ll allow you sort the gallery images within the new UI with the current Imagely Gallery version.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Please feel free to share any other thoughts or suggestions you might have.

Best regards,

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