On my album page I want to have a block of sub-album names as a local navigation on the left of the page. I then want to show images in the parent album in the content area.

When I do this the paging navigation will treat the album names and the images in the root folder as all one result set. So upon load album names show, but no images, until you start to page.

What I am looking to do is have the sub-album names stay persistent and have its own pager, the same for images in the root folder and not have them connected.

Any pointers would be so helpful.

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I don't understand exactly what you mean "with its own pager" but you can achieve subalbum navigation menus by using the print_album_menu plugin. See the documentation for it.

thanks, that plug is very helpful.

What I meant to say is when viewing an album that has sub-albums in it, i only want to show the images in the content area and not the albums.

Removing the next_album loop from your theme's album.php should achieve that.