(From a post in a thread in "Help & Support," edited for clarity if not portability)
Now how do you get from gallery to Forum post?
At the bottom of every thumbs page in a gallery you "own," there will be the line "Or generate html/bbcode here" with 'here' as an underlined link. It may still even be so for other folks' galleries; I haven't paid much attention lately. In any case, you'll want to click on that link.
This part of the gallery software always puts your latest additions to the gallery at the bottom of the scrollable frame or inset that comes up when the next page has finished loading.
The two things you'll want to pay closest attention to at this stage are
1. The pull-down menu with which you make your choice of how many thumbs per row you want your post formatted in (the default is 2 -- I routinely choose either 3 or 4), and
2. The radio or "blinkless" buttons where you choose between Regular HTML and HTML with BBCodes.
For ImageFap's Gallery Garden and most other forums/subforums, you'll want to select "HTML with BBCodes."
Under each thumb in the large scrollable frame, you'll find a checkbox. Clicking on one or more than one, you should see BBCode appear in the empty, and also scrollable, frame below it. Both of these are to the left of the page that just loaded. Click on as many of these as you would like to show as thumbs in your post. The rule for Gallery Garden is "No more than 15 linked thumbnails per post." You can balance this out by adding a Gallery Link ("hide" it in the name of the gallery -- it's always more fun.
).I recommend having a text editor open at this stage, as it's somewhat awkward to cut & paste the code from the box of BBCode into a "fresh" thread or new post on any forum. This also gives you the option, as you might notice with my example above, of adding a paragraph ahead of all the thumbs. It's courteous, I've found, to "sign" the post "up top" too; this eliminates the need for surfers to scroll all the way down to find out for sure who made the post.
When you have all the code you want cut & pasted into the blank page of your editor, and have added the courtesies of an introductory paragraph, gallery link, and signature, then surf to Gallery Garden and start a new topic. I've often had little to no idea what to put in for a Subject: until I pasted the text and code from my editor. Not a big deal.
Then Preview the post, Submit if you're satisfied, and you're done.
Hope this was helpful.
BZT
(Restored after a glitchy move to Gallery Garden)
