Use of custom thumbnails

Backlight 4 & 5 Support
#1

I have started again to do some work on my albums and have come across a question related to custom thumbnails. I have a custom thumbnails album as described by Matt some time ago and all the images I have produced for this purposes are there. So far so good.
When I now create a new album and want to choose the image for the album thumbnail I am presented with a list, which contains the images from the said thumbnail album as well as all the images in the album I try to set the the thumbnail for. So the first question is: Is this the intended solution? Should I see the album images as well as those from the thumbnail album or only those from the thumbnail album?
My second question is: How are the listed images ordered? I my case they seem to be listed in random order, at least I can’t make any sense of the order of the listed images. What should be the normal case and is there a way to change the order of the list? Especially when having a lot of images from the albums themselves (as it happens for album sets) it is very difficult to find the one I want to pick.

Thanks for looking into this and providing some advice.
Alfred

#2

The behavior you see is as intended. The thumbs in the custom-thumbnails album appear at the top of the list and the actual album thumbnails below that.

I believe the images are ordered in the same order that they were added to the album

#3

Thanks, Rod.
I had expected the first answer but not the second one. The list shows an unstructured mixture of album file names and thumbnail image names. Any idea what could cause this?

#4

perhaps if you’re tying to select a thumbnail for an album set. All the thumbnails from all of the albums in that set would be on the list.

#5

Correction on the order. The thumbnails will be listed by folder order. So if you have any album slugs beginning in an alphabetical order before custom-thumbnails, they will appear first.

But the listing should be in alphabetical order by folder (slug) name.

#6

Hi Rod, here is a screencapture from the list:

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It indicates, what I have tried to describe.

#7

Ben or Matt will need to address this. Those scattered individual files should be in folders.
What albums should they be in?

#8

The thumbnails are here: /galleries/custom-thumbnails/
and the images here: /galleries/4_wildlife/squirrels/

#9

Matt or Ben, since Rod suggested you would need to get involved: Any comments on this topic?

#10

Related to this post: Custom Hero Images
there will soon be a new way of directly uploading custom thumbnails for an album or album set

#11

The ordering is a known issue. The way the plugin is coded is to use a storage that doesn’t maintain order. Unfortunately I don’t have a good solution to it. There’s no drop-in replacement with something that will maintain the order.

#12

Thanks Ben, will put it aside then and live with how it is now.

#13

managing custom thumbnails is going to get a lot easier soon:

#14

Custom images is awesome! I wish we had this a month ago! I have been using a work around with inline images. I will be updating my main site even before its finished! When is the expected release date?

#15

Soon. Maybe within days; definitely before the end of the month. I fixed two bugs last night, and I’m hoping we don’t find any more.

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