Order of photos in a shared album - entered one by one in order wanted - displays in reverse

Hmm.. Sounds like you used both tricks right, but the adding in order trick is really for a Shared Album that you are going to Share normally with another iCloud user. That's the only way that I've used Shared Albums.

Your evidence reminds me that I have heard people saying before that Shared Albums accessed through links came out backwards. Seemed so odd at the time that I dismissed the reports since I wasn't planning to use that feature.

Since you now know that they came out backwards for you twice, try it again, but upload them in the opposite order (25...1) so that when reversed they will appear in the order you want your link recipients to view them. It's a kludge, but seems it should work.

Best of luck selling your boat!

You mention two different storage schemes:

--entering photos in a shared album one at a time in the order you want them shown

--putting photos in a separate file (folder?) with names in the order you want shown

Which one did you do?

The first one should work with a shared album link in Photos.

The second one might work with in some file sharing system if the receiver views the shared folder in order by name.