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@dwny: do you use any caching plugins?

You can also turn caching of gallery queries in File Gallery to speed things up a little bit. Go to your media settings page and find the ‘Cache’ subsection under File Gallery section, and check the checkbox next to ‘Enable caching?’.

@daiyoukai: could you post a link to a page that displays this problem? or a screenshot? also, what version of the plugin are you using?

thanks 🙂

@deepbevel: currently, that function returns only all media tags, but you can use default WordPress functions to get all media tags related to a specific post’s attachments.

here’s a quick, untested function which should return an array containing all media tags (each as an object, see here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_terms) related to a post:

function get_media_tags_for_post( $post_id )
{
	global $wpdb;

	$media_tags_list = array();
	$tags = array();

	$attachment_ids = $wpdb->get_col(
		$wpdb->prepare("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent=%d AND post_type='attachment'", $post_id)
	);

	foreach( (array) $attachment_ids as $aid )
	{
		$tags = get_the_terms( $aid, FILE_GALLERY_MEDIA_TAG_NAME );
		$media_tags_list = array_merge($media_tags_list, $tags);
	}

	return $media_tags_list;
}

I’ll add this function to File Gallery in version 1.7.6.

So, I’m guessing it all works as expected with the latest update? 😀

If so, I’ll mark this topic as resolved in 24 hours, so please comment if anything is still wrong with attachment ordering.

Thanks! 🙂

OK, I’ve found the culprit, and it’s the, what should I call it… ‘inflexibility’ of WP_Query in regard to the MySQL ORDER BY clause, but it’s probably my fault because I didn’t read WP_Query reference regarding the “orderby” clause more carefully – take a look at the very last paragraph of this section:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

In MySQL (I suppose in any other SQL, too), when sorting by multiple fields/columns, you should place a comma between field/column names, like I did in 1.7.5.1 – “menu_order, ID”, or “”menu_order DESC, ID ASC””.

On the other hand, when setting ‘orderby’ value for WP_Query, there should be no commas present in there. And ordering by multiple columns, each having a different ORDER, is, as far as I can determine, not supported (yet).

So, to cut the jibber-jabber, I’ve uploaded version 1.7.5.3 of the plugin to the repository and it should be available for download now, or as an automatic update in the next 24hrs.

Please let me know if it still doesn’t work right for some reason.

Bruno

@frank6tg:

go to Settings -> Media

scroll down to “Edit screens options”

uncheck “Filter out duplicate attachments (copies) when browsing media library?”

now you should be able to see all attachments in the media library, including copies.

@dbraphael: shortcode option is paginate="true", but if you’ve set the limit for number of thumbnails within File Gallery metabox, you should be also seeing a “paginate” dropdown menu. Can you see it?

shortcode example:

[gallery limit="9" paginate="true"]