editing tiled gallery with block editor

sisimon1 · Member · Feb 20, 2019 at 3:36 am
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cannot drag and drop images in tiled gallery. I cannot remove images with the x but am unable to drag and drop the thumbnails to reorder the gallery. Please help.

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justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2019 at 6:09 am
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Hi there, is cdsphotographyinstitute.wordpress.com the site you need help with?

Thanks for bringing this up.

Looking at this support guide to the new tiled gallery block, https://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpress-editor/blocks/tiled-gallery-block/ after inserting a tiled gallery I also am not getting the Media Manager window to rearrange the order of the Gallery images. Clicking on the Edit Gallery icon in post leads me directly to my Media Library, not the Gallery’s Media Manager.

I’ve gone ahead and flagged this thread for Staff attention as well. Thanks for your patience while they get back to you.
justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2019 at 6:15 am
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Staff-also noting that this reference in the above tiled-gallery-block support doc

In order to use Tiled Galleries, be sure to activate the Image CDN. To do that, go to Jetpack → Settings → Performance and activate Speed up image load times.

could be confusing to our users since Photon is already enabled here on WordPressdotcom.
kokkieh · Staff · Feb 20, 2019 at 7:26 am
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Hi there,

This doesn’t work in the tiled gallery block, no. At the moment the only way to control the order of images in the gallery is to add them to the gallery in the order you want them to display. Our developers are aware of this issue, but I cannot tell you when it might be fixed.

If you add a gallery via the Classic block, or use the classic editor instead, you’ll be able to change the order when editing the gallery.

@justjennifer, thanks for the note about that doc. I’ll take a look.
justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2019 at 8:14 am
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@kokkieh – thanks for noting the workaround. Two steps forward, one step back. :/
sisimon1 · Member · Feb 20, 2019 at 6:16 pm
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thanks for the quick replies.

@justjennifer the site i need help with is https://cdsclassph155.wordpress.com/tom-simon/

@kokkieh i switched to classic editore but can’t see a way to edit gallery order using it. ideas?

thanks
justjennifer · Member · Feb 21, 2019 at 5:55 am
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Hello again, once you are using either the Classic Editor or the Classic Block, you can edit the Gallery by clicking anywhere on the Gallery placeholder, then on the pencil icon. That will open the media manager window where you’ll see two tabs: Preview and Edit. Make your changes in the Edit tab and then click Update to save your changes. Save your post or page again as well.

@kokkieh – while using the Classic Block, my Gallery images are appearing in the Preview tab of that window, however in the Edit tab I have broken images instead.
kokkieh · Staff · Feb 21, 2019 at 8:05 am
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while using the Classic Block, my Gallery images are appearing in the Preview tab of that window, however in the Edit tab I have broken images instead.

@justjennifer, is the site where you observed this set to private by any chance?

I’m able to replicate this on both the regular classic editor, and the classic block in Calypso, but only on private sites. I also found a previous report of this, but no one had been able to replicate it thus far. I’ve added the additional info there.
justjennifer · Member · Feb 21, 2019 at 1:31 pm
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@sisimon1 let us know how you are getting on with that.

@kokkieh – yes, my test site is private. Thanks for adding the info to the report. Hope it’s not too long before it’s resolved.

*The post is also a draft if that has an impact on anything.
sisimon1 · Member · Feb 21, 2019 at 2:14 pm
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Will probably get to it later today. Many thanks.
supernovia · Staff · Feb 21, 2019 at 9:29 pm
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Thanks @sisimon1. We’ll keep an eye on this thread, so please reply when you’ve tried it and let us know if you need more help.
sisimon1 · Member · Feb 22, 2019 at 1:48 pm
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I switched to the classic editor, which changed my tiled gallery to scrolling images, but when I click on the pencil icon nothing happens, no media mgr window opens….
sisimon1 · Member · Feb 22, 2019 at 1:50 pm
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i’m switched back to the block editor to restore my tiled gallery but still need to re-order the images. Thanks for your help…Tom
supernovia · Staff · Feb 22, 2019 at 6:56 pm
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@sisimon1 would you mind rebuilding the tiled gallery in the classic editor? I’m not sure whether block-built galleries are editable through classic.
sisimon1 · Member · Feb 23, 2019 at 4:12 am
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I’ll try and let u know.
supernovia · Staff · Feb 23, 2019 at 8:18 pm
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Thank you! Please update us here when you have more information. Cheers :)

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