The Gallery2Blog Tutorial: Converting (free hosted) Galleries to fulltext Blog Posts

twan · 12-06-2006, 06:50 PM

( a up to date version is always available at http://www.adultblogresource.com/gallery2blog/help/ )

What is that Gallery2Blog?

Gallery2Blog simply allows you to convert a list with gallery urls (+name, description, etc) to a RSS feed. If you use Thumblogger then Gallery2Blog will add your blog posts directly to your Thumblogger blogs.

Most sponsors have a big list of Free Hosted Galleries, this big list can be often exported to a text file (or CSV). The file can be given to Gallery2Blog which will convert it to a RSS feed. This text file that contains the gallery urls (and most of the time gallery names and descriptions) will be called CSV from now on.

But as we all know these galleries often don't have a extensive gallery description as needed for blogging. That is why Gallery2Blog offers you a easy and efficient way to change the gallery descriptions. Lets get started!

How much does it cost?
It is free for everyone. The only thing we ask is that you put a link back to Gallery2Blog on a page which is reachable by search engines and may be visited by fellow adult blog webmasters. Feel free to add a little description to the link to Gallery2Blog for example:

Quote:

Gallery2Blog
# converts galleries to blog posts.
# makes changing gallery descriptions easy and efficient.

You may of course be more creative. (don't forget to copy the link)

Create a account
Fill in your name and email address and press the "Create account" button. You will receive a email which contains the password you can use to login.

Login
Enter your email address and password and press the "Login" button.

Change that password
Click "Password" in the menu and enter your current password and two times a new password. Press the "Change" button. You need to login again.

Create a new RSS feed
Click "RSS" in the menu and click the "Create a new RSS feed" link. Now follow the steps:

Enter a name, for example "My sexy feed".
Paste the content of the CSV file in the big "Gallery import file" field. (the CSV file is the text file that contains the gallery urls, names and descriptions and sometimes even more).
Enter values in the Separator, Enclosed and Affiliate code fields. See the help sidebar (the one on the right with yellow background) for help on how to find the right values. (there is also a link to a couple examples)
Press the Preview button.
A table appears which displays the information from the CSV file in a table. One table should contain the url to the gallery, another table should have the gallery name and another one the gallery description.
Make sure that the right column numbers are in the 3 fields below the preview table. If for example the gallery url is in column 3 and the field "Which column contains the url to the gallery?" contains 2 then you have to change the 2 to 3.
Select "I confirm that the above table is correct." if you are 100% sure that everything is OK.
Click the Preview button.
Now you can change the Post and Subject template. A template will allow you to change how a subject and blog post will look on your blog. Both templates can contain tags. Tags will be replaced with actual values when the subject and blog post is generated. [col_X] will be replaced with the value from column X. Replace the X with a column number. There is one additional tag: the [img] tag. This tag will be replaced with a preview image of the gallery. See the Help sidebar for more details.
Click the Preview button.
Now you can see how the final blog posts will look like. The image that says "image not yet generated" will be replaced by a preview image of the gallery that will be generated by gallery2blog.
If you think that the final blog post preview looks alright and if you don't see any [col_?] tags in the preview then enable "I confirm that the above blog post is correct." and press the "Save All" button.
You should now see the message "RSS added". Congratulations!

Wait a while
Gallery2blog will now start generating the preview images for the galleries you just imported. This can take a while. These preview images will be included in your blog post, so that the surfer can actually see a preview image of the gallery. To see how far gallery2blog is with generating the preview images:

Click on the name of the RSS feed you just created, in my case "My sexy feed".
The numbers below the header "Your gallery image generation status" show the status of the preview image generation process for the selected RSS feed.
The numbers below the header "Global gallery image generation status" shows how far gallery2blog is with generating all gallery preview images for all the users.
Wait until all preview images are generated (see under header "Your gallery image generation status").

Lets do some typing
Most CSV with galleries don't have extensive gallery descriptions, most of the time it is just a little sentence. That is far to little to be useful for blogging. That is why you have to add some text that for example describes the gallery.

Click on the name of the RSS feed you just created, in my case "My sexy feed".
Click manage.
Select the item in field "Which column do you want to change?" that ends with "<-- Gallery description".
Now a big table appears. The second column "Image" contains the preview image generated by gallery2blog. The third column allows you to change the gallery description.
Go ahead and add some sentences to the gallery descriptions of the first 5 galleries. You can do the rest when you have time.
Scroll down the page and press the "Save" button.

What now?
Now the system is ready to:

Generate a RSS feed which you can use in other software.
Put the blog posts directly to a Thumblogger blog.

Because this tutorial is already to long we are going to focus on point to, put the blog posts on a thumblogger blog.

Schedule those blog posts!
Click the "Configure" link under the "Put galleries on a Thumblogger blog" header. Follow:

Click the "Configure & Import blogs" link to import your thumblogger blogs into gallery2blog.
Click the "Thumblogger" link and enter the email address and password you use to login to thumblogger, press the Change button.
Click the "Import/update Blogs" in the second column, this will import your thumblogger blogs into gallery2blog.
Click the "View Blogs" link in the second column to view the blogs that have been imported.
Click "RSS" in the menu, click the newly created RSS feed, in my case "My sexy feed".
Clink "Configure" under the "Put galleries on a Thumblogger blog" header.
Now you have to decide on which blogs you want to put the blog posts and when and how many at a time.
Lets keep it simple and add 1 blog post on every saturday and monday.
First enable the blog in the first column.
Second "Sat" and "Mon" in the second column.
Third enter "1" in the third column.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press the Save button.
Find the blog you just enabled in the list and click the "Direct Add" link in the last column, this will cause 1 blog post to be added to your blog within 30 minutes.
And ready! now every saturday and monday 1 blog post will be added to the blog you enabled.

But i don't wanna use Thumblogger!
Gallery2blog can also export the blog posts to a RSS feed. A RSS feed with the blog posts can be imported with a plugin for your blog software (feedwordpress and others for wordpress) or Rss2Anywhere.

You can configure the generation of the RSS feed by clicking the links under the header "Export galleries as RSS feed / to your own blog". Help is available on the Help sidebar (at the right, yellow background).

A tutorial will likely be written soon for this feature.

Phew!

Support is always available:
http://www.adultblogresource.com/for...vtopic&forum=4

That was a lot typing. I hope you all find it useful.

hithit · 12-07-2006, 01:56 AM

Nice Tutorial ,thanks twan!

twan · 12-07-2006, 03:37 AM

You are welcome hithit

Feel free to request features or things you do miss. The following feature request are currently open:
- reverse the entries in a CSV file.

twan · 12-07-2006, 03:39 AM

I forgot to place a link to the topic about Gallery2Blog, here it is:
http://www.netpond.com/showthread.php?t=98299
This one contains some interesting information regarding Gallery2Blog.

shortfut · 12-07-2006, 04:25 AM

That is something for the weekend. Thanks!

seeandsee · 12-07-2006, 06:15 AM

Thanks Twan, all great tools!

frederix · 12-07-2006, 11:33 AM

thanks man, seems very intresting and i ll be trying it very soon

AbsolutePorn · 12-07-2006, 01:33 PM

Nice one buddy!

I was already using this, and it's been working very nice!!!

jibstar · 12-07-2006, 03:01 PM

Very Nice...I understand why I couldn't get it to work properly.

I don't know if you've seen it in the other thread I'd like to request an item shuffle facilty like you have in rss2anywhere.

thomasbyers · 12-07-2006, 09:21 PM

Very nice work Twan. I have stuck it for awile to make sure everyone sees it. Great information. Thank you.

blackbunda · 12-07-2006, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jibstar

Very Nice...I understand why I couldn't get it to work properly.

I don't know if you've seen it in the other thread I'd like to request an item shuffle facilty like you have in rss2anywhere.

I was gonna ask for this as well. Program is working great!

twan · 12-08-2006, 06:11 PM

Thanks thomas

I'm glad you all liked the software and the tutorial.
A shuffle feature is on its way

blackbunda · 12-08-2006, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twan

Thanks thomas

I'm glad you all liked the software and the tutorial.
A shuffle feature is on its way

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!

How about a way to edit the name of the feeds in the master list?

twan · 12-09-2006, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackbunda

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!

How about a way to edit the name of the feeds in the master list?

Whoops, i can't begin to think why i didn't add that one yet. That is one stupid mistake

It will be added soon, that is for sure.

blackbunda · 12-09-2006, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twan

Whoops, i can't begin to think why i didn't add that one yet. That is one stupid mistake

It will be added soon, that is for sure.

It's all good. That shuffle button is gonna be a REAL timesaver.

twan · 12-14-2006, 09:21 AM

As promised, here is the long awaited (

) update:

14 December 2006

Added: a feature to add a extra column to a CSV file.
Changed: the 'Number of items in RSS feed' is now set to 20.
Added: the ability to change the internal name of a RSS feed.
Added: 'Shuffle galleries', randomly sort the galleries.

Feel free to comment on these changes or request features that you missed.
I will now crawl through all the forum posts about gallery2blog and see if i missed a feature request.

twan · 12-14-2006, 05:51 PM

A couple bug fixes:
* Fixed: a bug that caused strange sorting of blog posts in the rss feed when after the generation of the rss feed the galleries where re-sorted.
* Fixed: clicking the History tab when viewing the blog posts that were on the RSS feed caused a 404.
* Added: the History now also shows the blog posts that are currently on the RSS feed.

The last one makes the History more understandable. It also allows you to clear the entire generated rss feed and start all over again. Handy for when you are testing.

twan · 12-16-2006, 08:55 AM

Here is the news from the last couple days and a small example on how to import 50 galleries from nubiles.net CSV to Gallery2Blog.

News
16 December 2006
* Added: a small tutorial Example: import 50 galleries from nubiles.net.

15 December 2006
* Updated: you can now add new columns directly when you are adding a rss feed and when you are importing a CSV to a existing rss feed.
* Added: a couple examples for Post Templates.
* Added: 'No edit' mode to Manage. Handy when you messed up Import.

A small example
Example: import 50 galleries from nubiles.net

Become a nubiles.net affiliate
If you are not yet a nubiles.net affiliate then you first have to become one. You can find instructions on the following page:
http://www.nubiles.net/webmasters/

Get the CSV file with galleries and descriptions
You know have to login and get the CSV file that contains the gallery urls, descriptions and other information:

Login.
Click 'Hosted galleries'.
Click 'Display all exclusive girls galleries (copy/paste friendly)'.
Choose the options you want, lets only take the picture galleries.
Copy about 50 lines from the big text field.

Import the CSV in Gallery2Blog
Now we need to import the 50 lines of CSV file to Gallery2Blog. This is quite simple:

Login.
Click 'Create a new RSS feed'.
Enter a name.
Paste the 50 lines in the big field labelled 'Gallery import file (CSV or other formatted text)'.
Enter | as separator.
Enter your affiliate code of nubiles.net. (mine is 972619, yours is different)
Click Preview button.
As you might have seen the CSV of nubiles.net only contains a description and a gallery url and some useless information. We are missing the name of the gallery. Don't worry, gallery2blog can add a extra column to the CSV for you:
1. Enter 'Nubiles [num]' in the "Value for new column" field.
2. This field is described in the help sidebar as followed: "Enter here the value you wish to have in the new column. You can separate the values with a comma (=,) then the system will randomly pick a value and put it in the new column. You can use the tag [num], this tag will be replaced by the number of the line.".
3. Click the "Add a column" button.
4. A extra column is added!
Now we have a extra column which contains a generated gallery name.
The field 'Which column contains the name of the gallery?' likely contains the wrong column number, it should contain the column number of the name column, in my case that is 5. (you can see which value a column contains in the table with 4 rows above the 'Which column contains the ..' fields.
Select "I confirm that the above table is correct.".
Press the "Next step" button.
Click the "Centered" link, for a nice 'everything in the center' blog posts.
Click Preview button.
Make sure the 4 blog posts in "Blog Post Preview" section look alright.
Select "I confirm that the above blog post is correct.".
Click the "Save all" button and wait a while.
Finished!

What is next?
If you don't know what to do next then you should read the "Gallery2Blog, converting (free hosted) galleries to fulltext blog posts" tutorial.

I hope that was useful

12-07-2006, 01:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
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12-07-2006, 03:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
twan Where can i change this? Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,491 Points: 7,905	You are welcome hithit Feel free to request features or things you do miss. The following feature request are currently open: - reverse the entries in a CSV file. __________________ Free Blog Hosting: Thumblogger and SensualWriter. Free Blog, SE and Directory Traffic For All: Promote Thumblogger! All Adult Blog Tools - Blog Submitter (ABC linking) - Blog Traffic Program.

12-07-2006, 03:39 AM	#4 (permalink)
twan Where can i change this? Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,491 Points: 7,905	I forgot to place a link to the topic about Gallery2Blog, here it is: http://www.netpond.com/showthread.php?t=98299 This one contains some interesting information regarding Gallery2Blog. __________________ Free Blog Hosting: Thumblogger and SensualWriter. Free Blog, SE and Directory Traffic For All: Promote Thumblogger! All Adult Blog Tools - Blog Submitter (ABC linking) - Blog Traffic Program.

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12-07-2006, 09:21 PM	#10 (permalink)
thomasbyers If You Build It They Will Come Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Key West Posts: 5,057 Points: 55	Very nice work Twan. I have stuck it for awile to make sure everyone sees it. Great information. Thank you.

12-08-2006, 06:11 PM	#12 (permalink)
twan Where can i change this? Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,491 Points: 7,905	Thanks thomas I'm glad you all liked the software and the tutorial. A shuffle feature is on its way __________________ Free Blog Hosting: Thumblogger and SensualWriter. Free Blog, SE and Directory Traffic For All: Promote Thumblogger! All Adult Blog Tools - Blog Submitter (ABC linking) - Blog Traffic Program.

12-14-2006, 09:21 AM	#16 (permalink)
twan Where can i change this? Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,491 Points: 7,905	As promised, here is the long awaited ( ) update: 14 December 2006 Added: a feature to add a extra column to a CSV file. Changed: the 'Number of items in RSS feed' is now set to 20. Added: the ability to change the internal name of a RSS feed. Added: 'Shuffle galleries', randomly sort the galleries. Feel free to comment on these changes or request features that you missed. I will now crawl through all the forum posts about gallery2blog and see if i missed a feature request. __________________ Free Blog Hosting: Thumblogger and SensualWriter. Free Blog, SE and Directory Traffic For All: Promote Thumblogger! All Adult Blog Tools - Blog Submitter (ABC linking) - Blog Traffic Program.

12-14-2006, 05:51 PM	#17 (permalink)
twan Where can i change this? Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,491 Points: 7,905	A couple bug fixes: * Fixed: a bug that caused strange sorting of blog posts in the rss feed when after the generation of the rss feed the galleries where re-sorted. * Fixed: clicking the History tab when viewing the blog posts that were on the RSS feed caused a 404. * Added: the History now also shows the blog posts that are currently on the RSS feed. The last one makes the History more understandable. It also allows you to clear the entire generated rss feed and start all over again. Handy for when you are testing. __________________ Free Blog Hosting: Thumblogger and SensualWriter. Free Blog, SE and Directory Traffic For All: Promote Thumblogger! All Adult Blog Tools - Blog Submitter (ABC linking) - Blog Traffic Program.

12-16-2006, 08:55 AM	#18 (permalink)
twan Where can i change this? Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,491 Points: 7,905	Here is the news from the last couple days and a small example on how to import 50 galleries from nubiles.net CSV to Gallery2Blog. News 16 December 2006 * Added: a small tutorial Example: import 50 galleries from nubiles.net. 15 December 2006 * Updated: you can now add new columns directly when you are adding a rss feed and when you are importing a CSV to a existing rss feed. * Added: a couple examples for Post Templates. * Added: 'No edit' mode to Manage. Handy when you messed up Import. A small example Example: import 50 galleries from nubiles.net Become a nubiles.net affiliate If you are not yet a nubiles.net affiliate then you first have to become one. You can find instructions on the following page: http://www.nubiles.net/webmasters/ Get the CSV file with galleries and descriptions You know have to login and get the CSV file that contains the gallery urls, descriptions and other information: Login. Click 'Hosted galleries'. Click 'Display all exclusive girls galleries (copy/paste friendly)'. Choose the options you want, lets only take the picture galleries. Copy about 50 lines from the big text field. Import the CSV in Gallery2Blog Now we need to import the 50 lines of CSV file to Gallery2Blog. This is quite simple: Login. Click 'Create a new RSS feed'. Enter a name. Paste the 50 lines in the big field labelled 'Gallery import file (CSV or other formatted text)'. Enter \| as separator. Enter your affiliate code of nubiles.net. (mine is 972619, yours is different) Click Preview button. As you might have seen the CSV of nubiles.net only contains a description and a gallery url and some useless information. We are missing the name of the gallery. Don't worry, gallery2blog can add a extra column to the CSV for you: Enter 'Nubiles [num]' in the "Value for new column" field. This field is described in the help sidebar as followed: "Enter here the value you wish to have in the new column. You can separate the values with a comma (=,) then the system will randomly pick a value and put it in the new column. You can use the tag [num], this tag will be replaced by the number of the line.". Click the "Add a column" button. A extra column is added! Now we have a extra column which contains a generated gallery name. The field 'Which column contains the name of the gallery?' likely contains the wrong column number, it should contain the column number of the name column, in my case that is 5. (you can see which value a column contains in the table with 4 rows above the 'Which column contains the ..' fields. Select "I confirm that the above table is correct.". Press the "Next step" button. Click the "Centered" link, for a nice 'everything in the center' blog posts. Click Preview button. Make sure the 4 blog posts in "Blog Post Preview" section look alright. Select "I confirm that the above blog post is correct.". Click the "Save all" button and wait a while. Finished! What is next? If you don't know what to do next then you should read the "Gallery2Blog, converting (free hosted) galleries to fulltext blog posts" tutorial. I hope that was useful __________________ Free Blog Hosting: Thumblogger and SensualWriter. Free Blog, SE and Directory Traffic For All: Promote Thumblogger! All Adult Blog Tools - Blog Submitter (ABC linking) - Blog Traffic Program.