General Support: Can sub albums be considered? Or is there a plugin?

It's not really feasable at this point. The whole system is built on the collection/album/picture paradigm, and changing it at this point would require a significant rewrite to almost every module in the system.

If you are set on Plogger, I would suggest that you think of ways to simplify your categorization. You'd be surprised at the level of depth you can achieve with only a two level hierarchy.

For example, you could create a collection called "Fashion Shows", and inside that collection you would have the "London Fashion Week" album. You could then create a collection called "Fashion Designers" and include an album called "Stella McCartney". There may be overlap here, images that are from London Fashion Week and Stella McCartney would be found in both albums. You can drop the year collection in my opinion and just add it as a prefix to other collections like "2006 London Fashion Week".

Anyway, maybe by thinking about this in a different way Plogger can become a viable solution for you.

I agree and don't agree with you Derek. Eventually there will be unlimited sub-albums, but I wouldn't use it. I have used galleries both as creater/owner and/or visiter, and I found too much levels very very confusing. For myself because one tends to create too many levels, just because it's possible. And being rather neurotic about this I always wanted to make such a system perfect so I kept rearranging all the photos. And it was a waste of time.

As a visitor I'm also confused by too many levels. Where was I? In which subsubsubsubsub album did I see that little red bike? Before you know it you're just clicking around all the albums and get totally lost. Structure is necessary, but like with governments, too many departments make it all very slow and obscure.

I chose for Plogger because it is easy to use, very elegant, lightweight, very customisable and very complete as it is. Perhaps you should consider a complete rewrite when you are all retired? =)

Though it may be surprising, I agree with Jack and MIke. It is confusing. ;)

I see it as the decision of the site admin, however. Ultimately, an album object (yay, PHP5) shouldn't care if it contains albums, photos or both. LIke a filesystem... is it a file or folder? You know by the look (folder icon vs file icon), but the view and interface treats it the same. Ideally, that's what I'd like to see for Plogger. But, as I (hopefully) said above, it depends on where all the dev team wants to see it go.

Cheers,
Derek

There is a Trac ticket started for this, but I don't know how long it will take to implement it. It will be a large rewrite for the codebase, so it will take awhile to get everything worked out.