Title: Sorting for galleries Last modified: February 22, 2019 --- # Sorting for galleries * [cdvideo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdvideo/) * (@cdvideo) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/) * Hi Josie * Quick question or help * I look after two clubs entries and posting images to their web site. Is there a way to do the sort in entry forms so that I can sort by type and then category * One clubs uses prints and we request they send an image up to display during the clinic and on the web site and we have 4 categories * So one site a sort by type (prt/dig) and then by category. see below re random author * On the other club site they only do digital but would like the sort to be by category but then random of the author * do you know of a program that will change the order as above before sending to the gallery media area? * TKS * Dan C Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [ronc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronc/) * (@ronc) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11234248) * Check The Judge by Compudata. [http://www.compudatagroup.com/compudata/](http://www.compudatagroup.com/compudata/) It does upload images and reports automatically. * Thread Starter [cdvideo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdvideo/) * (@cdvideo) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11235771) * I really do not want to change software EW is the best one so far, I have tried and used others that were lacking and also had a yearly subscription and no judging module. * Josie I know it would be a coding change but why can’t we sort the file before we upload for the adding the extra info and have EW sort the images the same as the spreadsheet. * Dan C * Plugin Author [Ilia Tyker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanne123/) * (@joanne123) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11236170) * Did you try sorting the images on the listing page (click the header of the column) right before you do the attaching? That ought to sort by a single column, although I don’t think it will deal with a secondary sort. * Thread Starter [cdvideo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdvideo/) * (@cdvideo) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11236274) * Yes that s what I do now but would be nice for a secondary sort and even a third the clubs I do have prints and categories but when the gallery is created they are still lump together by the same author so could have 5 nature images by the same author in a row. I guess it would be difficult to change the order as in the spread sheet that I upload with the added scores and judges comments? * Maybe add it to future updates of EW * Dan C * Plugin Author [Ilia Tyker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanne123/) * (@joanne123) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11236341) * OK, I’ll put it on my list of things to look into. * Plugin Author [Ilia Tyker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanne123/) * (@joanne123) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11236508) * Another thought: If you were willing to accept a prefix (either the concatenated type and category or just a number reflecting that) on your title or caption, you could sort on that in the existing setup. ( You would need to add it to the“ Extra Data displayed in the spreadsheet” in order to see it in the list page.) * Thread Starter [cdvideo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdvideo/) * (@cdvideo) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11237069) * I will look into that for next month I already setup the gallery. But I did notice with wordpress gallery I had to sort high(P) to low(A) to get it in the gallery low (assignment) to hi (pictorial If I did a sort in category assignment first it would be last in the gallery page … I guess wordpress gallery is not setup for sorted images. I only look after EW on these web sites they both have their own webmaster so I am limited as to what I can and cannot do re the galleries. * TKS Dan C * Thread Starter [cdvideo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cdvideo/) * (@cdvideo) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11242837) * One more thing I setup the whole year for the clubs clinics in the fall, I do set the end date and time but would be nice if you added a start date and time. I have been sent email stating the new clinic should be going as I foregot to activate them. Just food for thought. * Dan C * Plugin Author [Ilia Tyker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanne123/) * (@joanne123) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-for-galleries/#post-11260402) * It turned out that modifying the javascript to do a secondary sort was not workable. * What I did for 1.3.10 was to allow you to add an additional “tag” to the image along with title, caption, etc, and to display this tag in a spreadsheet column. Then you can sort on it in the item-list view before attaching to the page. * I’ve added “start date/time” to my list of things to think about. * But I’m afraid I’m really going to have to declare a moratorium on new features for at least the next few months — far too much stuff is piling up in my to-do list. 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