stormtigers is there anyway to get the alphabetical sort of items to go across the page rather than down the page ?
In COLUMNS layout, unfortunately it will always sort vertically, just like a newspaper column. This is because we use CSS columns, and this is just how it works. If you change to any of the other layouts BLOCKS, GRID, ROWS, you will see that it sorts horizontally.
It's possible to reproduce columns layout via Javascript, but I don't want to do that, because it's slow, and it would cause performance issues when re-sorting and live filtering large directories. CSS only layout is fast.
Looking at your screenshot, I don't really see a huge point of using that layout when most of your images are the same size. Columns is mostly useful for photos when you want to emphasize image vertical aspect.
In your case, I assume it's because you appreciate that specific layout in regards to the caption data. Unfortunately, columns-layout will always sort vertically, sorry ...
