Re-ordering pictures in a WordPress image gallery

Changing the order of your pictures in a WordPress image gallery widget is easy enough, but not entirely straightfoward.  Here's how to do it.

Log into your WordPress admin dashboard and go to Pages.

 Edit the page with the image gallery you will be reordering

 Click on the Wordpress image gallery widget

Then click the Edit Gallery icon that appears in the upper left corner

The gallery edit window pops up.  Click and drag in title bar area to the new position and release.
(the cursor shown in the image below indicates you are in the drag bar region)

You can also change the order pictures appear in the gallery by changing the number in the input field left of the Show link.  These numbers automatically update when you use the dragging method.

Make sure the sort order is defined, generally you will use "ascending". You can set the sort order at the top of the gallery edit window. Ascending/descending is also an option at the bottom of the gallery edit window, as show in the image below.

Important Step!  Scroll to the bottom of the gallery edit window and press
Save all changes THEN Update gallery settings

 Finally, press the Update button in the right column of the page edit screen to save all your changes.