Title: Image sorting
Last modified: December 7, 2020

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# Image sorting

 *  [fgwac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fgwac/)
 * (@fgwac)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-3/)
 * Let me start with I am new to WordPress. I am sure this topic has been beat to
   death but….
    I have been given the title of Official Spokane County Raceway Photographer.
   I shoot a lot of pictures. Have been using Facebook for sharing but decided it
   was time for something different. When I export my edited images from Lightroom
   they end up in a file that organizes the images in the order they are taken. 
   Which works REALLY well for me on FB. I have tried several different WP Plug 
   ins in an attempt to replicate this but am having 0 luck. Right now I am using
   Filebird, like the way it allows me to arrange the images into folders, each 
   folder being a particular event. However, no matter how I tell it to sort images
   they are all over the map. For instance, at one event I caught a series of a 
   car spinning on the wet track. No matter how I tell Filebird to sort the images
   the 14 shots of the young lady spinning are all over the place. All of the images
   are obviously numbered one after the other, for example the first one is 1DX27000
   next is 1DX27001. Meta data of the images have them being taken all within a 
   few seconds. Is there any way to replicate the file system that Windows uses?
   This is driving me nuts. The majority of my images I don’t mind if they are not
   in the order they were shot. But others I would like them to be in the order 
   I shot them. I shot a several sequences of a guy on bike at the road course. 
   Each sequence was at least 20 shots long. In my computer they are all in the 
   order they were shot. In my WordPress file they are scattered everywhere. The
   gallery on my site is going to look pretty bad if these images are not in the
   proper sequence… Just have a hard time believing that there is not some way to
   use the cameras metadata to sort the images correctly.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fimage-sorting-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Tellyworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tellyworth/)
 * (@tellyworth)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-3/#post-13769077)
 * Are you talking about the order of files in the WordPress media library in wp-
   admin? Or the order in which files are displayed when you’ve selected and posted
   them in a gallery?
 * The gallery block lets you reorder images in any order you like. In the Gutenberg
   post editor, once you’ve added images to a gallery, you can click on each image
   and use the left/right buttons to move them around. See here for examples: [https://wordpress.org/support/article/gallery-block/](https://wordpress.org/support/article/gallery-block/)
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by [Tellyworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tellyworth/).

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