• Registered: 2014-12-22
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Wordpress media gallery - image ordering

We're having trouble adding images to our gallery and then having them come out in the correct order.

We found this old forum post, from 2013: http://juicebox.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1053

Initially we were excited after we read that. We thought perhaps we just needed to select our images from the Media Gallery in reverse order from how we wanted them.

That didn't work. As far as we can tell, they're really just coming out in random order.

Finally we found a sort of workaround - if we choose one image, then close the Media window, and do this for each image - the gallery displays in correct order. This is very slow and frustrating, though, because Wordpress has to load the Media Gallery each time.

Is there a trick to selecting images for a gallery all in one go, and having them come out in the correct order the first time? Thank you for your help. We'd really like JuiceBox to work for us.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,906

Re: Wordpress media gallery - image ordering

The handling of images is done entirely by WordPress itself and WP-Juicebox just displays the images in the order in which they are provided by WordPress (using WordPress's own 'menu_order').

The images should not be in a random order unless you set randomizeImages="TRUE" in your gallery.

If you edit a post containing a gallery, click the 'Add Media' button and go to 'Insert Media (side menu) -> Media Library (tab) -> Uploaded to this post (drop-down menu)', then the images should be displayed in the same order on screen here as they are in the gallery.
If this is not the case, then you should be able to drag and drop the thumbnails into a new order. If you just move a single thumbnail (and move it back to its original position), this should be enough to snap the images into order.

WP-Juicebox (since v1.3.3.1) includes a quick and easy way to reverse the order of images in a gallery (if they seem to be reversed for whatever reason). Just edit the gallery on the 'Manage Galleries' page and select 'Ascending' or 'Descending' as the 'Image Order' before clicking 'Save'.

I hope this helps.