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October 26, 2011
12:24 am

vahing

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Hi,

I am using WordPress 3.2.1. (English) with Dynamic Content Gallery 3.3.5. The site is http://galerialatina.ec .
The Gallery Method is "ID Method" with a total of 18 posts displaying a gallery image.
For all the posts having a gallery image I have entered the order number, yet the gallery displays neither in the requested
order nor by post id.

Please advice.

Thanks,
vahing

October 26, 2011
6:25 am

Ade

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Hi,

Are you absolutely sure that you have aallocated a Sort Order for every post? Are you displaying normal posts, Pages, or posts from a custom post type?

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October 26, 2011
7:04 am

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Thanks for your reply. I have wracked my brain and couldn't make the sort order work. Before posting my problem I have skimmed trough the FAQs, and the there is no configuration issue I am aware of. I have double checked that all posts have a gallery image as well as a unique sort number assigned (1-18).
There are no custom posts types. And there is one page which has no gallery image.

I would be very grateful if you could help me further.

Thanks Mark
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October 26, 2011
12:37 pm

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Mark,

Can you try something? Reduce the number of ID's to 3, then see what order they appear in. Could you then give me the 3 ID's of the posts and the sort order? (Reducing it down to 3 makes it a little more manageable to see what's going on. I don't think there's a bug because sort order works fine on my test install, but one never knows…)

PS: Sorry, I don't speak German – I live in the French speaking part of Switzerland. :-)

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October 26, 2011
12:54 pm

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Some general info about the way the ID Method works…

1. Sort Order checkbox unchecked in DCG Settings > Gallery method

Regardless of the order in which ID numbers are listed in the ID box, the posts will be pulled into the DCG in ascending ID order, eg:

ID Method box = 3,1,2
DCG will show 1, 2, 3 (ie #1 will be the first post in the DCG, #3 will be the last)

2. Sort Order checkbox checked

Providing all posts have a sort order, then the sort order will determine the order in which the posts appear in the DCG. Again, this will be in ascending order, ie a post with a sort order entry of 2 will appear before a post with a sort order entry of 9.

If a post is missing a sort order entry in the DCG Metabox, this is treated as if the sort order is "0" and therefore will appear before all posts which have a sort order entry.

Not sure if this helps, but it may be useful to someone else in the future.

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October 26, 2011
8:26 pm

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Hi Ade,

I have started with only 3 gallery imgages and all went fine. So continued adding image for image. Until number 9 all goes well, but as soon as I ad one more image (number ten), then the sort order doesn't work any longer and seems to become random.

Page/Post ID numbers: 10,8,6,48,56,63,128,61,121 correspond to image order 1,2,3, …9.
When I add post id 59 (10,8,6,48,56,63,128,61,121,59) for making the sort order 1 – 10 then the issue appears.

What happens then is that post id 59 shows up as image number two, whereas is should be 10. Of course, I have checked
all entries for post id 59 including the sort order entry.

(I have currently switched back to showing only 9 images in the working sort order).

Thanks a lot for looking into this.

Best regards,
Mark

October 26, 2011
10:02 pm

Ade

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Thanks, Mark, that's very useful.

I think you may have found a bug in my code. Do you mind testing something for me?

Open up dfcg-admin-metaboxes.php (it's in the plugin's includes folder) and find these lines (lines 272 and 273):

$newdata['_dfcg-sort'] = substr( $newdata['_dfcg-sort'], 0, 4 );
$newdata['_dfcg-sort'] = esc_attr($newdata['_dfcg-sort']);

and change the second line to this:

$newdata['_dfcg-sort'] = intval($newdata['_dfcg-sort']);

You will then need to go back into each of your ten posts and click Update to re-save the sort order numbers.

Let me know if that now works with ten sort numbers. I think the issue is that the sort order is being saved as a string and it should be saved as an integer.

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October 26, 2011
10:43 pm

Ade

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No, that won't work either. Ignore my above post.

Here's a simpler fix: instead of using sort entry numbering 1,2,3,4….10,11,12 etc, do it like this instead: 01,02,03….10,11,12

That should work.

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October 27, 2011
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Thanks so much Ade. The gallery works perfectly inserting 01, 02 etc. Laugh
Kudos for your great plugin!

Thanks and best regards,
Mark

October 27, 2011
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Great! Glad it's working properly now. Smile

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