Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Sort Gallery
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Sort Gallery

 *  [NatalyR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natalyr/)
 * (@natalyr)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-sort-gallery-1/)
 * Hello,
    It seems that images of a gallery can be sorted, that a button called“
   Sort Gallery” allows this, i een see it on a screen capture, but i don’t have
   this button. How come? Is is a feature of a premium version? Thank you in advance
   or you help.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [whalegeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whalegeek/)
 * (@whalegeek)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-sort-gallery-1/#post-3042208)
 * You have to set an Option to get the button. Under the Gallery tab in the left
   sidebar, go to the Options menu, and then select the Gallery tab at the top. 
   On this page, scroll down to Sort Options and for the first one, selection Custom
   Sort at the top. Save the changes. You should now see a Sort Gallery button when
   you are managing a gallery.
 * Still, the ability to do a custom sort seems to be broken. Half the time I load
   in images, they load in the correct order, and the rest of the time they do not.
   I go to Sort Gallery, select Date/Time, and NOTHING happens. No other options
   change the order of thumbnails either. Used to work seamlessly, but it no longer
   does and I really really wish this would be fixed. I just uploaded a gallery 
   of 199 images and am going to have to spend a couple of hours just moving the
   thumbnails around which is NOT easy to do.
 * I’ve reported this bug in other posts in the forum with no response. I hope someone
   from Photocrati is listening. I use Chrome and have all updated WP and plug in
   software. It is maddening to upload images that are numerically ordered, only
   to have them scrambled in the gallery and waste large chunks of time reordering
   with a tool that is imprecise at best.
 *  [whalegeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whalegeek/)
 * (@whalegeek)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-sort-gallery-1/#post-3042209)
 * Correction – I can get the order to change with sort with Filename and Image 
   ID, but neither results in the actual order the images should go. Still frustrating,
   still not working as it once did.
 *  Thread Starter [NatalyR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natalyr/)
 * (@natalyr)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-sort-gallery-1/#post-3042211)
 * Thank you a lot for your answer whalegeek! :0)
    Indeed the drag and drop to sort
   the images isn’t responding very well, i’m going to test it a bit more. I would
   change the status of this topic to resolved but i wouldn’t like it to be ignored
   if the sorting isn’t working properly.
 *  Thread Starter [NatalyR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natalyr/)
 * (@natalyr)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-sort-gallery-1/#post-3042212)
 * I found this about the drag and drop sorting :
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-gallery-sort-order-dragdrop-weirdness?replies=10](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-gallery-sort-order-dragdrop-weirdness?replies=10)
   I’ve applied the fix in the css and it seems to work for now.

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 * Last reply from: [NatalyR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natalyr/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-sort-gallery-1/#post-3042212)
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