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DCG 3.3.5 Bug Report - Slide Ordering

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DCG 3.3.5 Bug Report - Slide Ordering

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January 25, 2012
8:36 pm

tim

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I have found what seems to be a bug in DCG 3.3.5 on Wordpress 3.2.1. We found that on our site, we were unable to properly order the slides using the "Order" input box in the "Attributes" metabox on the slides, and in fact it seemed to be ignoring this field entirely.

After doing some investigation in the database I found that the "menu_order" field in the "wp_posts" table was being updated properly by changing the Order value, but the plugin still wasn't ordering properly by that field. After doing some more digging through the plugin, I realized that in the $query string built on line 421 of dfcg-gallery-constructors-jq-smooth.php (We're using the custom-post method with jquery) there is no argument to order the posts at all.

So, I changed line 421 from:

$query = 'post_type=' . $post_type . '&' . $term_selected . '&showposts=' . $posts_number;

To:

$query = 'post_type=' . $post_type . '&' . $term_selected . '&showposts=' . $posts_number . "&orderby=menu_order";

And this appears to make the slide ordering work as expected, responding to the Order field input on the slide.

I only fixed this singular line of code in my copy of the plugin since it was all we needed to make our site work, but it appears that all the other query types also do not sort properly for the same reason. I'm not quite sure why this ordering code was left out in the plugin up until now, but it is probably something that should be fixed, please let me know if I am mistaken.

Tim Zook ~ tim@umstattdmedia.com

February 8, 2012
7:25 am

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Hi Tim,

Thanks for your detailed post – and investigations.

Actually, slide ordering is only designed to be a feature of the ID gallery method. So, if you look in the same file, you should see that the SQL query uses the _dfcg_sort meta_key (around line 745 in the same file).

However, your post has prompted me to consider adding this capability to the 'One Category' gallery method.

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