Allow a range of ID's for WP_Query : (prev: Media IDs in gallery shortcode - allow ranges of ids)

[grosbouff]

Hi,
I have a lot of galleries with a lot of images in it.
Usually, media IDs are in order, So I have something like this for shortcode :

[gallery ids="266,267,268,269,270,271,272,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,280,281,282,283,284,285,286,287,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295,296,297,298,306,307,308,309,310"]

It would be nice being able to use id ranges, like :

[gallery ids="266-298,306-310"]

(like printer drivers do !)

[chriscct7]

Personally not a fan of this, but it probably wouldn't be hard to support.

[keraweb]

Why not extend this to the WP_Query. The gallery shortcode uses the post__in and include parameters.

It's not that difficult to allow a range for this parameter, the parser can convert it to an array of ID's before building the query itself.

[keraweb]

Allow id ranges for post queries (defined with a hyphen: x-xx)

[wonderboymusic]

I understand that the ergonomics of typing these IDs is bad, but they should not be typed: they should be generated by the media modal. The problem with a range is that it requires filtering the results, because none of the properties for IDs requested is known ahead of time.