Image sort ordering

tye · 2015-08-18 08:47:38

Hey – I’ve got a quick question – on a friends website he uploaded all the images in the wrong order – so now we have no way to display them as they should be (telling a story)

Is there a way / plugin to reorder images on the image tab?

I have thought of renaming them and sorting by “name asc” or using alt tag “alt asc” – but there are over 200 :(

Any ideas would be great :)

etc · 2015-08-18 09:02:30

Not very convenient, but <txp:images sort="FIELD(id, 6, 13, 2, ...)" /> should work (untested though).

Edit: or simply <txp:images id="6, 13, 2, ..." />.

Last edited by etc (2015-08-18 09:07:48)

tye · 2015-08-19 05:58:42

Thanks etc… nah not very convenient… but could be my only option :) Thanks

maverick · 2015-08-19 11:45:35

A slow, tedious, but long term option might be to edit the database directly – changing the entry ids.

It would take a lot of time, but once done, it would be exactly in the order you wanted things going forward.

uli · 2015-08-19 11:51:47

tye, there’s also cno_image_order, a branch of stm_article_order. Mail me should you not find a copy of the plugin.

maverick · 2015-08-19 12:56:40

uli wrote #294223:

cno_image_order

Good catch Uli. I forgot about that plugin.

cno_image_order v0.2a is available as a download from Textpattern.org

stm_article_order.

Tangent: stm_article_order info and download links no longer work at Textpattern.org

uli · 2015-08-19 13:08:48

maverick wrote #294227:

Tangent: stm_article_order info and download links no longer work at Textpattern.org

Yes, Mike, I know, monsta has rebuilt his website. Sadly, commenting is closed at .org. But an updated and improved version can be downloaded from the forum.

maverick · 2015-08-19 16:46:42

uli wrote #294228:

an updated and improved version can be downloaded from the forum.

Good to know. Thanks!

tye · 2015-08-20 00:03:32

Thanks uli, maverick – I got a copy of cno_image_order_v02a.txt – but when I installed on txp 4.5.7 – I don’t get any images to sort – just an Image Sequence tab with no images…. is there another step to the install?

maverick · 2015-08-20 13:12:32

Tye – I do not currently have it installed. Uli found someone who has it working in 4.5.7 and has asked if he can help you.

uli · 2015-08-20 13:58:15

tye wrote #294238:

I don’t get any images to sort – just an Image Sequence tab with no images

I did a quick installation on my sandbox environment with 80+ plugins installed (= muuch potential for plugin conflicts), and it worked right from the start, though, at first, I was a little perplexed by the same “no images appearing” syndrome. But I remembered to click on the categories like it needs clicking sections in stm_article_order. Have you tried that?

tye · 2015-08-21 01:29:07

Hey Uli – I got it working, I didn’t have any images in categories… once I put them in, all good :)

Thanks for the help

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