Title: Image sorting is completely broken
Last modified: July 22, 2021

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# Image sorting is completely broken

 *  Resolved [pflau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pflau/)
 * (@pflau)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-is-completely-broken/)
 * Hi, in gallery editor no matter how much I change sorting from Default Sorting
   to File Name (Asc), Alt/Title (Asc), etc., the new sorting order would not hold.
   I would click Update, leave the gallery editor, re-enter the gallery editor, 
   and the sorting order would revert to Default Sorting. I cannot drag and drop
   because I have thousands of images in my portfolio and can only manage the image
   order by managing their file names.

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 *  Thread Starter [pflau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pflau/)
 * (@pflau)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-is-completely-broken/#post-14687529)
 * It looks like the Sorting drop down only rearranges the images for you to manually
   type in the Ordering Numerate. This is terrible. This precludes the plug-in to
   be used in any professional capacity.
 *  [Asya Gabrilyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asyag/)
 * (@asyag)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-is-completely-broken/#post-14692013)
 * Dear [@pflau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pflau/),
    Thank you for the
   report.
 * Did you try to order the images as shown in [here](https://www.loom.com/share/b363433d82714c3ea629c4c7fc23ee03)?
 * Sincerely,
 *  Thread Starter [pflau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pflau/)
 * (@pflau)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-is-completely-broken/#post-14694236)
 * Yes I know the option of embedding the gallery in a page and that would give 
   me the sort option. But this is not how I use it, I don’t create pages for galleries.
   I attach all my galleries to a gallery group which is set up as a custom link
   in a menu item. So no page is ever created for a gallery or gallery group.
    I
   did find out if I change the Order by option in Global Settings it would change
   the sort method in a gallery, but then all other sort methods are broken. The
   main issue as I see it now is the option of overriding global gallery option 
   is only available when the gallery is embedded in a page, and having to create
   a page for every gallery negates the advantage of the plug-in.

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 * Last reply from: [pflau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pflau/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-sorting-is-completely-broken/#post-14694236)
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