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Maybe I used to many words just to ask if it's possible to show pictures divided over multiple folders into 1 gallery.
With "random" I mentioned shuffled and not just a few or selected/picked pictures. Just all the pictures from all the sub-folders and then randomly shuffled.

ok, so you want to get ALL images from ALL subfolders into the top parent page? Sounds a bit heavy ... and may I ask what is the point of that from the visitors perspective? That would be like offering a page "below are ALL the images from all categories, but if you only want to view some of them, click one of the categories" ...

mjau-mjau wrote:ok, so you want to get ALL images from ALL subfolders into the top parent page?

Exactly!

mjau-mjau wrote:Sounds a bit heavy ... and may I ask what is the point of that from the visitors perspective? That would be like offering a page "below are ALL the images from all categories, but if you only want to view some of them, click one of the categories" ...

I want to keep it as simple as possible and show people (potential clients) a variation of pictures if they just take a quick look at my portfolio. If I force them to choose from the beginning it's less likely they will see different things.
At the other hand some clients are just looking for a specific kind of photography/pictures and don't want to see for example portraits and architecture but just pictures of products. I want to serve them as well to offer a link in the menu that's called "Product photography".

And if the top parent page it's getting to heavy to load I can limit the gallery. But only If I can show randomly shuffled pictures form the sub-folders. As far as I know for now it's only possible to sort the pictures ASC and DESC, am I right?

I just discovered the shuffle function is already working. I tried:
But that did not work. So I tried just the word shuffle and that worked. SWEET!!

elpd wrote:And if the top parent page it's getting to heavy to load I can limit the gallery. But only If I can show randomly shuffled pictures form the sub-folders. As far as I know for now it's only possible to sort the pictures ASC and DESC, am I right?

Actually, there is a shuffle setting already that you can use for images regardless if they are loaded from the pages own gallery or from assets. Just add tag shuffle into the page's gallery setting.

As for loading all images from all subfolders, that currently is not possible ... Technically it can be achieved, although it would require more resources because creation of the parent page would require looping through all subfolders, and then all images in all subfolders. Personally I am not a fan of the idea, because I can't see how this makes it simple for the visitor: A) The last thing you want to do is overload the visitor with choices, and loading ALL images into the parent folder is doing just that ... B) Add to the fact that alongside ALL the images, you are also displaying all the categories, which won't make it easier to choose, or even differentiate between what is a category and what is an image.

Personally if I got to that page which has all images and all categories, I would likely get confused by choices, and if anything I would probably go "back" because lack of coherence in the current page. Just my personal subjective opinion, although I don't even know what kind of content you have.

elpd wrote:If I force them to choose from the beginning it's less likely they will see different things.

Can't this be solved better than loading everything into the same page and force-feeding them? I would suggest on start page and/or top level pages, display a small selection of "featured" images dressed to impress.

Yep, sorting needs to be re-visited at some point ... the setting is a bit obscure ...