rschmunk
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It’s in several earlier threads where the solution explained is to activate the super-sekret legacy NGG admin layout.
For example, see here .
See my reply in this thread from two months ago.
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As mbsharp indicates there is a workaround so that you can use the old Nextgen admin interface. This has come up before, and I describe the workaround in the last reply to the thread at https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/sort-and-albums/
See the response I posted in this thread a few weeks ago.
Found a workaround for this…
Read the reply by @williamdersh at https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/worst-update-ever-20/#post-18792611 about how to bring up the “hidden” admin settings for the NextGen plugin. Load the matching address in your website’s admin.
Toggle the very first control widget at the top of the page “Legacy Options — Show legacy admin pages”.
Click the Dashboard link at the top of your admin navigation column. You should now see nav links below for both “Imagely” and “NextGen Gallery”, with the latter being the old way of doing things.
I just went into a gallery on my brother’s website that had 250+ photos in custom order, and I was able to move them around wherever I wanted.
Regarding OP’s first point that, “If a gallery has a lot of images, it’s become unwieldy on the backend. It loads them all, no pagination, so is slow and very difficult to find files. Newly uploaded files don’t show, at least not right away.” It seems that pagination has since been added, displaying only 50 pages per page, but…!
If you use custom ordering set on your galleries, there seems to be no way to drag photos from one page of a gallery’s admin to another page. Newly uploaded seem to always get placed at the start of the gallery, so there’s no way to move them to a later page.
Frankly, it would also be useful to be able to change the number of photo thumbnails shown per page on the admin side to something higher.
I do the technical stuff for a family member who has a photography website, and I just got the same question from him. As yet, I haven’t been figure out an answer.
Despite being on opposite coasts of the US, I got the family member photographer to check his camera settings. Indeed, it seems his camera’s clock is somehow 10 months slow. Which he’s somehow never noticed. I wonder if it’s been like that ever since he got the camera new.
And I used to get perturbed if my own camera’s clock was off because I forgot the Daylight/Standard time change and my photo timestamps were off an by an hour. Sigh.
Thus… Close this trouble ticket.
The dates in photo Metadata are the same shown in the panel listing the photos in the gallery.
Photos posted in the past couple years are I believe all from the same camera.
Unfortunately, I don’t have access to the camera in question, so cannot easily find out if somehow its clock settings are somehow 10 months off.
The 3.50 and 3.54 updates both messed up the gallery and album page layouts on a website that I maintain for a photographer friend. Luckily the 3.50 “update” was not the nightmare that seems to have affected other NGG users as we’re only using the basic plugin.
But both times I had to go into the plugin settings and restore various layout settings that the updates reverted to defaults. And even after doing that, the Basic Compact Album layout was seriously messed up after the 3.54 update. The only way I could get things to not look like trash was to apply a bunch of custom CSS to the website to override what the plugin was applying.
It’s great that the NGG authors are trying to fix stuff, but could they not break things while they’re at it? Prior plugin updates over the past several years have not caused this sort of chaos.