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I cannot emphasize enough how much I love the new X3 gallery and how easy and intuitively it can be installed and configured.

One question came up though:
Is it possible to change the order of galleries within a folder to display the newest gallery at top of the listing?

The corresponding use-case is: I have new pictures and I would like to have them displayed as the first element in the gallery overview. I could always change the numbering in front of the title (1.Trip-to-Paris, 2.Trip-to-London, ...) by increasing the number of all previous galleries by one but I don't think it's feasible for more than 10 galleries in a folder.

What I tried:
Set the date tag of all galleries to date like "2014-09-02", "2014-09-06", ... and set the folders tag of the parent-folder to "sort:date sort:desc" or "sort:date,desc" but this doesn't work obviously.

Is it already possible to do it and am I simply not getting the right syntax or isn't it possible yet and would directly find a place in the requested-features-list?

Thank you and best regards

Hi Karl

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, sorting like that works but it sorts the galleries just in reverse order of the id (the number in front of the title). For now this works, so I just have to add the galleries in chronological order.

I can perfectly live with this until an advanced sorting mechanism is available and it is far away from top-priority

Thank you again for your hard work, I really appreciate it. I've got two more small questions but I'm going to ask them in different threads in this forums.

Yes, exactly.

Therefore I already prepared the galleries by using the "date" option. I used the date-format "YYYY-MM-DD". It is not explicitely stated in the docs that this works but I assume it does since you wrote "You can write dates in any recognizable format..."

mjau-mjau wrote:Just to be clear ... You are adding that date-format to the date setting for each page right?

Yes, exactly.