I mentioned the 'favorites' plug-in because it works without me having to do anything apart from activate it. It allows me to select albums or individual photos and add them to my favorites 'list'
That is exactly what I expect from the 'download' plug-in - activate it and then be able to select albums and/or photos to be added to a list ready for downloading (in a zip file) - and I would expect that is what the majority of your users would also want; and the few who want it to do anything else will be the ones who would be prepared to make modifications to an already functioning plug-in.
However, I accept that you think differently.
What you describe is not what the downloadlist plugin is made for which is documented. You expected that because you wanted this. All I can do is tell that it is possible.
Again, not every theme has support for every offical plugin not to speak of third party ones. This is not a secret and documented here:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/using-plugins-and-third-party-features/
And themes have their support documented - as far as know fro third party ones - on the themes section.
Yes, It would appear that I have completely misunderstood the function of this plug-in; although it is called 'downloadlist' it seems it isn't designed to generate a download list or enable users to easily select photos and/or albums for downloading.
I have removed this plug-in.
Thanks for your help.
Quote:although it is called 'downloadlist' it seems it isn't designed to generate a download list
Well, that is exactly what is primarily does. You can generate a downloadlist from a folder with it, either the folder of an album or any other folder. You just need to add the function call where you want this list to appear as with most plugins.
This page for example is using it, although customized:
http://www.zenphoto.org/pages/logos/
Each logo section is actually a album and the 1 or 2 logos are their images. It's a custom theme function that prints the whole page but the 1-2 download links is a rather plain usage of the downloadlist.