Zenphoto
The simpler media website CMS
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Try changing the number of album thumbs and image thumbs in the theme's options.
Why do those number determine to seperate out albums and photos? And how is this calculated? And most importantly, why???
Let me clarify:
I want to set a number of items per page. Say, 100. Now there's 5 subalbums and 5 photos to display. Why is there still paging?? This is how paging works: there's a set number of items. Keep filling up the view until that number, and then stop. Next page. Start over, keep filling up the second view until that number is reached again. Stop. Start over. It's really that simple.
Also, fyi, I was actually talking about search results. So this setting you talk about, shouldn't affect that. Unless it magically does.
My theme is modern. Stylish, and is what it wants to be. It doesn't want to bother the visitor with extra clicks to see what can easily fit on the page anyway. It want to be gently. Paging doesn't work with that.
Paging is a nonsense concept anyway. Built to generate extra pageviews for ad revenue. Completely bullshit on a gallery-like website.
Data usage isn't that dramatic either. And on a metered connection you wouldn't be visiting an obvious data-heavy photo album anyway.
And as for CPU usage on the server: come on.
And on a metered connection you wouldn't be visiting an obvious data-heavy photo album anyway.
Of course you should have any kind of connection in mind…
Anyway, the calculation is done since iamges and album loops are separete. You can share the first page of an album with its subalbums and its direct images. Since albums by default come first this makes sense as you might have just one album and then images on page 2.
Separate pagination settings for images and album make also sense if you never have subalbums and images in an album at all but always eiter albums or images.
Search results work the same as normal albums.
The easiest step to disable pagination in general is to set the per page items to a very high value btw.
To be fair, neither users nor themes should be concerned with that.
"Separate pagination settings for images and album make also sense if you never have subalbums and images in an album at all but always eiter albums or images."
Combined paging makes sense in that scenario just as well. It also makes things far easier to understand from user's point of view, and far FAR easier to write code against. I've seen the code that handles paging. I'm sure it works (well, not in my case, or I wouldn't be posting), but UGH that is some gas factory going on there. Totally unneccesary iyam.
Sorry it doesn't fit your needs but as said you can disable or workaround that if you like via a custom theme. Zenphoto themes give you a lot more freedom in structure than other CMS might do. Of course that might involve some work to leave the "default way".