I recently started to use Plogger to publish family pictures. The photo blogger package is nice, but still in beta stage. The latter doesn’t go unnoticed when setting it up.
One of the things that has been bothering me is the fact that thumbnails are not only generated during import, but also during the first visit of the new albums. Especially on my very slow web host, it can take up to minutes to view a single picture that hasn’t been processed before.
A solution is a shell script that finds out what pages to download after adding a new set of pictures. It will then download those pages, forcing Plogger to generate all the necessary cache files. The script should be executed form the web server itself. It requires 3 lines (upper part of the script) of configuration: the url and filesystem path to the plogger installation and a log file that keeps track of the url’s already downloaded. If you want to redo the downloading, just remove this log file.