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Closed 5 years ago.

I have this bit of code in my xml feed and it's picking up the images in a different order than it is in the WordPress post.

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Here in the admin area I can drag the images around, and the page will display the top left image first and the bottom right image last. I would like my xml feed to give the images the same order. Thanks!

$attimages = get_attached_media('image', $post->ID);
                          $counter = 1;
                          foreach ($attimages as $image) {
                            if ($counter <= 50) {
                              echo '<image id="'.$counter.'"><url>'.wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID).'</url></image>' . "\r\n";
                            }
                            $counter++;
                          }

Your question should be specific to WordPress. Generic PHP/JS/SQL/HTML/CSS questions might be better asked at Stack Overflow or another appropriate Stack Exchange network site. Third-party plugins and themes are off-topic for this site; they are better asked about at their developers' support routes.

Closed 5 years ago.

I have this bit of code in my xml feed and it's picking up the images in a different order than it is in the WordPress post.

https://i.sstatic/E89eg.png

Here in the admin area I can drag the images around, and the page will display the top left image first and the bottom right image last. I would like my xml feed to give the images the same order. Thanks!

$attimages = get_attached_media('image', $post->ID);
                          $counter = 1;
                          foreach ($attimages as $image) {
                            if ($counter <= 50) {
                              echo '<image id="'.$counter.'"><url>'.wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID).'</url></image>' . "\r\n";
                            }
                            $counter++;
                          }

• images
• order
• xml

1 Answer 1

Gallerys aren't implemented the way you're pulling in images, the images in a gallery might not be attached to the post at all.

get_attached_media will give you the images attached to the post by the order of their ID.

This means:

• Images you added to the post, then deleted will be in this array
• Images in galleries attached to other posts won't be in this array

If we think it through logically, if your post had 2 galleries, each with the same photos but ordered differently, how would that work? Which order is correct? Neither. This function has nothing to do with Galleries

So What Are Galleries Then?

Shortcodes/Blocks.

E.g. shortcode:

[gallery ids="1,2,5,4"]

Or block:

<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[36,30,22,15,14]} -->
<figure class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><ul class="blocks-gallery-grid"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="http://one.wordpress.test/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/be.png" alt="" data-id="36" data-full-url="http://one.wordpress.test/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/be.png" data-link="http://one.wordpress.test/be/" class="wp-image-36"/></figure></li>...etc...</ul></figure>
<!-- /wp:gallery -->

The order of the IDs in the attributes is what determines the order. Using get_attached_media to try to recreate a gallery in content is a dead end that will not work. You need to look at the shortcode/block instead