virgvv

It varies. Some use an images directory right under the web document root. For multisite installations, I often use wp-content/images/sitename for each site. Not sure why I prefer “images” to “uploads”…just habit, I guess. (Several of my clients’ sites go way back, before they were using WP.) NextGen Gallery just automatically picks up whatever I’ve defined as the uploads directory.

Thanks for the answers. I am seriously considering switching to MaxGalleria with the paid addons. I especially like the action filters and hooks.

Thanks for responding so quickly, Alan. I see that when I create a new folder, it does indeed create the folder at the top level, without a year and month. I ran into the directory problem when I tried to scan existing folders–it’s looking for photos in uploads, rather than the images directory I defined in WP’s config file. Not a deal breaker, but it is a bit annoying.

My suggestion is to have Media Library+ just inherit whatever images/uploads directory is set for that WordPress installation. I often designate something other than the uploads directory, if only because several of my clients’ sites have always put images in another directory, and I don’t want to move them all and/or have images in two directories.

Virginia

OK, it seems to be working now. Far as I can tell, it was a combination of trying to use an album display type with a gallery, and maybe a problem with image paths. Whew!

I have the commercial version (v. 1.01), and I can’t access your support forums without paying for support because I bought the plugin more than 90 days ago.

If it helps, the directory my client uses for media is not under the wp-content directory (she uploads everything to a subfolder of the root WP installation).

If you are using WP 2.2, look at edit-pages.php in the wp-admin directory.

Around line 23, you’ll see:
wp(‘post_type=page&orderby=menu_order&what_to_show=posts&posts_per_page=-1&posts_per_archive_page=-1&order=asc’);

Just change orderby=menu to orderby=ID

If you want the most recent posts to show first, change the order=asc to order=desc

Don’t know if this applies to earlier versions of WP, but it works like a charm in WP 2.2.2 It does keep the parent-child relationships intact, so subpages still appear indented under their parent pages.

I’m having the same problem. I’ve got a category archive of author names, and want to sort on the slug (last name). I’m using query_posts rather than get_posts, like so:
query_posts(‘cat=54&orderby=post_name&order=asc’)

Is it really impossible to sort posts by slug?

Or am I just missing something?

Thanks.

I should probably clarify further…

What I’m really asking is if I can redirect the ASP urls to the pretty permalinks. For example,

redirecting product.asp?item=534 to product/534/

This would allow me to use regular expressions rather than having to redirect each URL to index.php/?p=2 (ugh).

Is this doable without tying everything into knots?

Thanks.

Ah, I figured it out. Needed to include the WordPress subdirectory in my .htaccess file. I didn’t think that was necessary when the .htaccess file was in the same directory as WordPress.

Sherman, maybe that’s your problem?

I have encountered the same problem with WP 2.2. I am using the same .htaccess, same web host, and same permalink structure I used successfully with earlier versions of WordPress.

When I use this permalink structure — %postname%.html — I get a 404 error on every page except for index.php. I have to insert “index.php” before the %postname%. That, of course, gives me undesirable URLs such as domain.com/index.php/this-is-a-post.html.