As your request, yes it "could" be possible, but requires changes in how the category content is handled.

In standard, it's not.

You could achieve the same presentation with albums description. (I recommend the plugin Extended Description)

Example : http://galerie.strangeplanet.fr/index.php?/category/3
The image is not clickable but i could. It's an image available in the album it self but hidden http://galerie.strangeplanet.fr/picture … category/3

Here is the album description is

[photo id=1494 size=XS link=no]

And I added this to the image name

<!--hidden-->

I checked Extended Description and your comments - I see that this is a work around to get a single picture before the albums (using the containing album's description) but what I need is the ability to have filing sorts which include albums and pics in one sequence - in this album the 3 album/categories at the top of the page would need to file in the same alphabetic sequence as the pictures to make senses of the arrangement

http://www.forncett.info/gallery/index.php?/category/8

In Gallery2 I also use manual arrangements, but again this involves pics and albums in the same sequences.

My existing databases contain myriads of this type of filing so individual workarounds would not solve my problem.

I see, looking at the database structure, that Piwigo has separate tables for Categories and Images whereas Gallery2 has just one table for Items - some items 'can contain children' and are therefore albums, others 'cannot contain children' and are therefore pics - hence the one sequence filing.

It is a pity (to me) - I thought I had found my solution, particularly after the perfect importing of the data!

Anyway, all the best and thank you for your help,

Richard

flop25 wrote:

BUT Piwigo is flexible and here you will find every possible solutions http://piwigo.org/doc/doku.php?id=user_ … :customize

I had already gone through the forum postings to read any on sort orders but although there are a number, none concerned with my query.

I have had a look at that page you indicated, thank you - the only thing there that seems appropriate to my question seems to be the Local Configuration (I also checked the templates but they did not seem to be appropriate).

In the Local Configuration I looked at all the options you list - the ones appropriate seemed to be

$conf['order_by_custom'] = ' ORDER BY date_available DESC, file ASC, id ASC';
and
$conf['order_by_inside_category_custom'] = $conf['order_by_custom'];

I searched on the Forum for all mentions of those and read through the postings and also tried variations in my config file - but again they seem only to apply to the order of the photos so I am still where I started.

I would be happy to see if I could configure such an order (one order sequence including photos and albums) if I knew where to begin.

Thanks,

Richard