The Masonry element organizes and displays the articles for Prepare, News & Views, Arts & Info, etc. Here are some setting that might come in handy. Note: we are talking about the “Masonry” element under “Content Elements.” There is also a “Masonry Gallery” element under “Media Elements” that is used to create a gallery grid of images.

• Edit the page that contains a collection of posts and open the “Masonry” element
• “Select Entries” is where you choose the category or categories of post that will be displayed
  • Hold Command to select more than one category
• Open “Sorting” then “Order by” to change the post order
  • You will probably use “Date” or “Page Order” if you want to order the posts manually
• For “Date,” “Descending order” means newest posts will be on the top.
• For “Page Order,”  “Ascending order” means the posts will be in the same order as they are when you go to All Posts
  • Remember, from All Posts you can filter by category and drag and drop posts to reorder.

There are a lot of other settings for this element but I will leave it at that for now.

The Media Library does not have a lot of options that will help you organize files but here are some things that will make it easier to find what you need

Right below “Media Library” you will find two icons. Use these to switch from grid view to list view or vise versa

You will only need to do this first step once, but each user (each separate login) will need to do it.

• Go to the list view
• In the upper right click Screen Options
• Check all boxes
• Change Number of items per page  to 999
• Click Apply
• Now 999 files will load without the need to go to the next page

Use the search box to search for files by their file name. If it is easy to find the image you want on the front end of the site, hover over that image for a few seconds and the title will pop up as a tool tip. Type this into the Media Library search box.

Sorting the file(s) to find what you need. 

• Go to the list view
• Sort by media type, files uploaded by you, and/or date
  • Choose media type or files uploaded by you, and/or date range from those two drop-downs then click Filter
• Click the column “File” column heading to sort files alphabetically by title
  • Click again to again to change from ascending to descending or vise versa
• Click the column “Date” column heading to sort files by date uploaded
  • Click again to again to change from ascending to descending or vise versa
• Click the column “Author” column heading to sort file by who uploaded them
  • Click again to again to change from ascending to descending or vise versa