attachment.php image navigation not following same order as ACF Gallery

• yorkshiredev

• October 28, 2014 at 9:17 pm

Hey all,

I have created my own photo gallery with the ACF Gallery Addon. When viewing images (in the file attachment.php) I have Next and Previous buttons to browse the rest of the ACF Gallery. This works fine, however when I start re-ordering the ACF Gallery, the order is not reflected in the Next/Previous buttons (I think the next/previous buttons are alphabetically ordered to the next image). Can anyone please suggest a solution? Thanks

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/next_image_link
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/previous_image_link

• yorkshiredev

• October 28, 2014 at 9:48 pm

Update: The next_image_link and previous_image_link retrieve the neighbouring Post in the WP database. The next_image_link just looks for the next item in the database (which is usually based on upload date/time).

It look’s like we may have to create a new function to solve this problem:

Maybe an Array of ID’s for each ACF Gallery which can be navigated on the attachment.php?

Any help greatly appreciated :D!!

• yorkshiredev

• October 30, 2014 at 2:19 am

Managed to find a solution by building my own functions, I will explain the fix below:

The order of the ACF Gallery is stored in the SQL database table ‘wp_postmeta’, under the meta_value of (in my case) portfolio_gallery. There is an array of Image ID’s in the order you have saved them in. I had to gain access to this array, loop through the values, find the next and previous ID’s of the required images and output there URL’s via WP’s function get_permalink();

I will post my final code when I’ve had time to neaten it up 🙂

Hope this helps anyone else who finds them self in the same situation.

• feios

• June 7, 2015 at 10:05 pm

Hey yorkshiredev, can you post your solution please?