Gallery – Sorting documents alphabetically

  • Our corporate intranet is on a WP platform. We upload all our policies in PDF format using the Gallery. The Gallery itself doesn’t appear to be sortable alphabetically/numerically. It keeps stacking the list of documents according to the date each document has been uploaded.

    I can get it to sort the way I want on the actual WP page, mind you, but not in the Gallery pop-up window.

    This becomes really inconvenient when a handful of policies are updated and I have to scroll through a list of 30 documents to find the one I want to delete, because I have NO idea when the last iteration of the document was uploaded.

    Being able to sort in another way would save me a ton of time.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You can do this with the Gallery Shortcodes.

    [gallery order="DESC" orderby="title"]

    Thread Starter lisa0721

    (@lisa0721)

    I need the gallery window where I can add and delete files to be in alphabetical order so I don’t have to search through 30 docs to find the one I want to delete. Shortcodes are for pages or widgets, so this doesn’t fix my issue, unfortunately.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Gallery = that which you see on a post or page

    Media Library = The list of all your uploaded media. (domain.com/wp-admin/upload.php )

    They’re both sortable. Which one are you trying to sort?

    Thread Starter lisa0721

    (@lisa0721)

    This window: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rRcVBN7jSwR-C-Z8vsYKL_XPIZ0R6XIBmNANt5EqzF0?feat=directlink

    … where you have just clicked on the add media button and have gone to the gallery tab. I have only been able to get this to sort according to the date I uploaded the files.

    this would be good to know. (if it’s a database type entry like a table in ‘Access’, I don’t think you can) but I’m sure I’m wrong as usual…

    Thread Starter lisa0721

    (@lisa0721)

    It would be nice to be able to sort it. I’m putting up loads of new pdf documents and having to sort through stacks to 40 – 60 uploads per page to delete the ones which are now outdated.

    There is probably an easier way I am just missing. ??

    Hi guys,
    Did anyone have an answer to lisa0721 issue?
    I am having the same problem with our WP Intranet. I have many PDF forms and policies but have no way of sorting them alphabetically (ascending order)
    Any assistance would be appreciated ??

    Will

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