Description of problem:
I wanted to change the standard taxon photo of Mangora acalypha. When opening the photo editor on that taxon page, the standard (thumbnail) photo wasn’t the first one (labelled ‘Standard’). When playing around, moving the order of the other photos (second to fifth place) were immediately reflected on the taxon page, but the first one remains unchanged, although it was moved to the last position
It seems to have updated to the spider on white background you wanted - as I was clicking around. I didn’t change anything - but perhaps it needed poking to reindex?
I see the different ordering issue. It looks like another user has edited the photo choice soon after @carnifex’s edit though, so tough to assess the outcome.
I just saw this on a different taxon (Viola canina) as well:
Not happy with the default photo, I opened the edit taxon page and noted that the photo I preferred was already set as the first one. I closed it without editing anything and after some second the ‘correct’ photo turned up as standard.
Looking at the history, no photos have been recently edited, so I do not think this is an indexing issue (or, it is a more severe one…)
I had a similar problem recently with a taxon I was looking at. I fought for half an hour trying to figure out why the taxon photos seem to be appearing out of order in relation to how they were showing up in the edit photos and never could find a reason. I later closed the tab I was working with and went to the taxon page in a new tab (not sure how I got there) and everything looked fine.
I wonder if that recent change they made that affects which taxon photo shows up in the thumbnail could also be affecting the order they show up in on the taxon page if you get to the taxon page via an observation that is showing the non-default photo as the taxon photo. Just a guess. I have not gone back to try an prove it.
