Add link to gallery in forum topic?

Question

Joshua,
Is there a way to add a link to my photo gallery from a forum topic? I thought that would be easier than uploading all the photos into the text.

Joshua Dorkin · Answer

No problem!

Joshua Dorkin · Answer

Larry, maybe we can find a way to allow users to create a gallery attached to a forum post....  I'll look into it.

Meanwhile, everyone can create their own galleries on the site through the DASHBOARD.  Once you've done that, if you want an image to show in a forum post, you'll need to hover over the image itself, right click the mouse, and find the image URL.  Once you've done that, come to the forum and place [IMG] in front of the link and [/IMG] after the link (which should end in .jpg, .gif, or .png).  That should allow you to post images in your posts.

Does that help?

Jon Holdman · Answer

Sure.  Each photo has a URL.  Such as:
                        
                        http://www.biggerpockets.com/photos/show/115
                        
                        To make that active, put [ url ] before the link and [ /url ] after the link.  Or, use this syntax [ url= ][ /url ], where  is the url of the photo, and  is the description you want to appear in the text. Leave out the extra spaces I've inserted here before and after the square brackets.

Larry Seith · Answer

Thanks guys! That works.

Larry Seith · Answer

Hi Jon,
            I tried putting the [ url ] in front and [ /url ] behind and it turned the image location into a hyperlink. The photo did not appear. Then I checked the HELP section and it says to put [img] before and [/img] after but that didn't work either. Any ideas?