• Registered: 2014-07-02
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Topic: flickrSort option not working with Wordpress Plugin?

I have been trying to sort my photos from Flickr by using the flickrSort PRO option, but whatever values I put in the photos are always random, never sorted, please help thanks.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: flickrSort option not working with Wordpress Plugin?

Any options you enter into a gallery's Pro Options text area are written to the gallery's XML file and used by Juicebox when the gallery is displayed. The problem may be with either the flickrSort entry or with Flickr itself but without seeing the exact code you use and your gallery, it will be hard to tell.

Please check the following.
(1) In your email, you say you have tried:

flickrSort = “DATE-POSTED-ACS”

Try using this instead:

flickrSort="DATE-POSTED-ASC"

... using standard double-quotes around the value, no spaces around the '=' character and using ASC instead of ACS.

(2) Make sure that you are not using/displaying a Flickr Set or Group. flickrSort does not work for set and group searches which always use the Flickr set display order. To change the order of images in a Flickr set, check here.

(3) Make sure that your WP-Juicebox has successfully been upgraded to Juicebox-Pro. flickrSort is a Pro configuration only and will be ignored by Juicebox-Lite. Instructions for upgrading WP-Juicebox from Lite to Pro can be found here.

(4) Make sure that you do not also set randomizeImages="TRUE" in your gallery's Pro Options text area.

Hopefully one of the suggestions above will help.
If not, please post back with the URL to your gallery so that I can take a look for myself and help further.

  • Registered: 2014-07-02
  • Posts: 3

Re: flickrSort option not working with Wordpress Plugin?

Thank you for the help and quick response, Juicebox and Simpleviewer have great customer service. 

I figured out that the problem was with my Flickr Gallery, the photos were not dated correctly. I used the "sort by name" option on Flickr to organize them how I wanted them.  But because there is no "sort by name" Pro Juicebox option, I used the "set" option instead of "tags" to identify the photos I wanted and then they came out with the correct order.  Thanks again.

-Gordon

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: flickrSort option not working with Wordpress Plugin?

I'm glad that you have been able to resolve your problem.
Thank you for posting back to let me know.

FYI, the flickrSort option within Juicebox-Pro supports all possible values of the Flick API's sort argument (as noted on this Flickr web page), namely date-posted-asc, date-posted-desc, date-taken-asc, date-taken-desc, interestingness-desc, interestingness-asc, and relevance.

5 Reply by gordonwilson (edited by gordonwilson 2014-12-02 23:24:59)

  • Registered: 2014-07-02
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Re: flickrSort option not working with Wordpress Plugin?

...Juicebox-Pro supports all possible values of the Flick API's sort argument...

But the flickrSort option doesn't support "sort by name" does it? Flickr does support arrange "alphabetically".

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: flickrSort option not working with Wordpress Plugin?

The sort argument within the Flickr API (which is what Juicebox uses to fetch the images from Flickr's servers) supports only the values I mentioned above (and listed on the Flickr API support page).
One way to order Flickr images alphabetically would be to display a Flickr Set (via the Juicebox-Pro flickrSetId configuration option) and to order the images within the set alphabetically within Flickr itself (following the instructions here).