ciano

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick response.

The reason I’m interested in menu_order is that the theme I use has the ability to show a slideshow of images as the background. It uses its own protocol in order to create a gallery in a page/post’s options. I found that to avoid sorting my photos three times (once in lightroom for my own use, once for the standard gallery, once for the themes background), I could use Enhanced Media Library to sort my photos and populate the menu_order field which both mla gallery and the theme take advantage of. This means I have just been sorting twice, once in Lightroom and once using Enhanced Media Library.

I’ve now discovered a way to export the sort order I use in Lightroom into the 2#103 IPTC field using a Lightroom plugin called L/R Transporter. This means that in theory I will only need to sort a gallery of images (a wedding for example) one time only in Lightroom, and then have that populated into the menu_order field and used automatically by both mla gallery and my theme.

The problem here of course is in actually getting it into the menu_order field. I had a look at the Mapping Hook Example and the link you posted me to, and started trying to amend it, but unfortunately I was way out of my depth and ended up spending a half hour going round in circles and scratching my head!

I’m happy enough for the time being to just use a static image as my post/page background, as the slideshow bg is just a nice but unnecessary extra. I can sort using a custom field in [mla_gallery] to display my Lightroom sort order. It would be really cool though if you managed to add menu_order to the standard mappings.

Thanks again for the help.