How To Post Pictures in the Forum

Posting pictures in the forum is easy, here is how to do it:

Step 1

Log in with your username and password (have to be logged in as a real user before you can post anything)

Step 2

 

Start a new post or reply to a post by pressing the ‘New Topic’  or ‘Reply’   button.

Step 3

Choose a method for inserting pictures into the body of the post:

  • Method A (simpler, limited in picture size and number of pictures) – upload the picture to the forum
  • Method B (more steps, more versatile, unlimited resolution and quantity) – upload to webhost and embed link

Step 3A1

Press the ‘Additional Options’ button near the bottom of the text entry box.

Step 3A2

Press ‘Choose File’ button to upload your picture.  Note that the file size must be small, and that it only lets you attach a few pictures to each post.  My favorite programs for re-sizing pictures are irfanview and picassa.  Sizing your images to less than 600 pixels will usually make the file size small enough.

Step 3B1

Upload your pictures to a hosting service or server of your choice.  (I like picassaweb best)

Step 3B2

Copy the link to the file and paste it in the body of the forum post.  (the link must be THE FILE, and not to a webpage, you can tell it is a file because it will end in .jpg, .gif, or .png and look like http://somewhereontheweb.com/somefolder/somefilename.JPG)  (from picassaweb, the link is found by clicking on the ‘link to this photo’ and checking ‘Image only – no link’)

Step 3B3

Highlight the link to your picture in the body of the forum post and press the ‘IMG’ button  which adds the proper BBcode to the link so that the forum software will display the picture instead of displaying the link to the picture.

Step 4

Press the ‘Post’ button  to publish.  The end!

About Brian Gallimore

Brian is a backyard vegetable gardener, permaculturist, aquaponics enthusiast, and maintainer of the online community at northtexasvegetablegardeners.com.
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