Skip the baffles altogether and just put the ceramic rings in bags?
I'd agree about the last compartment not being big enough too, regardless of how you fill it up. You need to work out roughly how much water will flow back into the sump [skim] when the power switches off, basically the footprint of your tank multiplied by about an inch depth (maybe more depending on the design of your overflow and returns) and make sure that last compartment has enough spare volume with the pump running to hold that water. You have only allowed ~10x6x??" depending on how wide your sump is and how much water your pump needs to be in, which sounds nowhere near enough for a 260g tank to me.
Also agree with whoever suggested raising the socks up, you'll find they take a lot longer to clog if they're out of the water so gravity can do its thing and help pull the water through.
You're on the right track though, keep researching and look at as many different designs as possible. Here is the sump I used on my old 1400L tank, the one for my next tank will be similar. I used a mix of ceramic noodles [submerged] and bioballs [above water level] for the media in the central compartment. The pipe on the end was going to be for an auto water changer that never got set up.