Missing hide-if-js class on gallery items

[scribu]

When you open the gallery tab in the media thickbox, next to each attachment item you have an input in which you can enter an order.

The thing is that thse attachments can be ordered via drag-and-drop, so there's no need to show the inputs to users that have JavaScript enabled.

Not to mention that the order column header is way off.

[dd32]

If you use the "Sort" options at the top, it doesn't currently re-order the items, just the numbers IIRC (There's another trac ticket for this recently)

[scribu]

Replying to dd32:

If you use the "Sort" options at the top, it doesn't currently re-order the items, just the numbers IIRC (There's another trac ticket for this recently)

Since we have drag-and-drop, those links seem completely useless to me. We should remove them altogether.

[scribu]

Or just remove the clear link and make them sort the items themselves based on their title. If you could find that ticket, that would be useful.

[dd32]

If you could find that ticket, that would be useful.

Unfortunately, It doesn't look like it's a trac ticket, It must've been a comment elsewhere.

Problem description I was thinking of: Selecting an ordering in the header should result in the items being shuffled rather than just the numbers updating.

[azaozz]

It's not that simple. This sets the "menu_order" on the attachment posts. That ordering works similarly to tabindex in HTML: you can have several posts with the same menu_order, all will be placed at the top and sorted by uploaded date/time (or another secondary ordering parameter like post_name). So the "manual entry" fields are needed.

Agree that the UI is very minimal and doesn't come close to making that intuitive but at the same time this is an advanced feature that the great majority of users would never need to access. Hoping these advanced sorting options will be handled much better when we redo the gallery.

[scribu]

Replying to azaozz:

Agree that the UI is very minimal and doesn't come close to making that intuitive but at the same time this is an advanced feature that the great majority of users would never need to access.

Exactly. Move it to a plugin.

[iseulde]

Media has been redone in 3.5.