Created post with 300Pictures (Gallery) at Preview appears as unsorted, Any Advi

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  in365sunsets · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 12:23 pm

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  Hi there
  I’ve created a new post with only a Gallery (consists 300 Pictures), currently saved as draft but when preview the post, the pictures appear in the wrong order. How come?
  Didn’t face this problem at previous posts.

  Any advice is greatly appreciated!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 1:42 pm

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  OT/ I’m on a relatively fast connection and it took an extremely long time for your February 20th post to load all the images. There’s no benefit in uploading images at a resolution of 4608×3456 pixels when they’re being viewed at a much lower resolution.

  Images don’t need to be larger than 1000 pixels on their longest side at 72ppi. Optimize before you upload to load images faster (page load times directly impact your site ranking on search engines), to preserve image clarity and make the most benefit out of your free 3GB storage space.
  /OT

  Given the number of photos, it’s hard for me to discern what the “wrong order” or the right order is. In each post you are linking the Gallery to the Photo Carousel, which will allow you to simply drag and drop the images in the order you want and that order will be displayed in the Photo Carousel. Of course dragging and dropping 300 images could be a pain all by itself.

  Can you clarify what you mean by the “wrong order”?

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 1:44 pm

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  which will allow you to simply drag and drop the images in the order you want

  …in the Gallery Manager screen (either the Create Gallery or Edit Gallery)…

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  in365sunsets · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 1:45 pm

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  My fault, ‘pictures show in random order’ wasn’t unticked, during gallery creation. Resolved now.
  Many thanks for your advice on resizing/optimize the pictures. Can this be done offline beforehand?

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 1:53 pm

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  :)

  It should be done offline beforehand prior to uploading.

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  in365sunsets · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 2:19 pm

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  Thanks justjennifer!

  And could you maybe recommend an offline software (for windows)?

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 20, 2015 at 5:47 pm

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  You can find recommendations here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/#image-editing-software

  More recommendations here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/adding-captions-on-all-pics-in-a-folder-that-will-print-out-on-the-pic-when-some?replies=3#post-2274695

  timethief another forum volunteer has whole lists here: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/category/image-optimization/

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  in365sunsets · Member · Feb 22, 2015 at 1:42 am

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  Thanks a lot JustJennifer!