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September 2, 2009

Posterous tip: Post multiple images inline, without a gallery, by putting ((nogallery)) in the subject line of your email

When you email multiple photos to Posterous, you automatically get our fast javascript gallery to flip through the photos.
 
But sometimes you don't want the gallery, you just want the photos to appear inline one after another. Put ((nogallery)) in the subject line and your images will appear without the gallery view!

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Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

Comments (86)

Sep 02, 2009
David Mosher said...
Thanks! This is a super easy way to do this and exactly what I was hoping for :)
Sep 02, 2009
Obleo said...
Thanks for that tip :)
Sep 02, 2009
Michael Litman said...
Awesome. You guys are innovating daily!
Sep 02, 2009
Josh Gard said...
That's awesome guys! New features every day - love it!
Sep 02, 2009
Fumi Matsubara said...
great tip!
Sep 02, 2009
maique said...
great way of solving that one...
Sep 02, 2009
Steve Lowtwait said...
This is great! I wish this was available for some of my previous posts but I'm glad it's here now. Zing!
Sep 02, 2009
Georg Mahr said...
This is so great, exactly what I was hoping for. Is it possible to specify where a particular image will be put? e.g. between two paragraphs located somewhere in my post? .-)
Sep 02, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Georg, we always post images in the same order/placement as they come to us via email. If your email client supports inline images, you can put them anywhere within text.

If your email client doesn't support inline images, they will all appear at the end. Then you can move them in the online editor.
Sep 02, 2009
Brandon Price said...
Awesome, this is great. Question, though: How can you know what order your pictures will be posted in? I've especially had problems when sending pictures from my iPhone and wanting a certain picture to come first, but also when I attach several in Gmail. Any help with this? Is there an order we can work with?
Sep 02, 2009
josh said...
good stuff.
are (()) calls separate or together? i'm assuming if you use tags it's just separate like "((nogallery))((tags: marketing, design))".
Sep 02, 2009
sascha assbach said...
cool, i don't think i need that but good to know :D
Sep 02, 2009
Georg Mahr said...
Brandon, I made some testposts in matters of picture order - the picture you upload first to GMail, for example, will be the first in your post. No matter what its filename is.

Sachin, you don't know if GMail supports inline images, do you? :o

Sep 02, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
GMail does support inline images. You have to turn it on in their "labs" section. It's in beta and has bugs, but it sorta works, sometimes ;)

Yes, the parenthesis for nogallery and tags would be separate

Sep 02, 2009
Judd said...
nice. a simple tweak can go a long way.
Sep 02, 2009
ELECTRIC ANT RYAN said...
I wish Gmail inline gallery images worked better. I gave up trying to create multiple galleries in one post since it was such a headache.

My dream (example): Imagine a post about North America, to be able to send 4 photos of Canada, 5 images of Mexico, 3 images of America and (either through inline or by how I attach them-- zip folders?) have 3 separate Posterous galleries for those batches--- 1 for Canada pics, 1 for Mexico pics, 1 for America pics. I've still never gotten this to work with Gmail x Posterous.

Thanks for continuing to innovate
Ryan!
http://blog.electricantzine.com

Sep 02, 2009
Tamlyn Leigh said...
The other day I posted pictures inside the message and wrote text in between it, and it posted as a no gallery option all by itself :) But this is way more elegant!
Sep 02, 2009
Cloud said...
How about the option to do the reverse...posting inline images from photo links as a gallery?
Sep 02, 2009
Adam Clark said...
Didn't know that one!
Sep 02, 2009
Lewis Collard said...
AWESOME.

This is *perfect*. Holy damn, you guys really are getting better every day. I love you all so much. :)

Sep 02, 2009
Saqib Ali said...
awesome. totally awesome! :)
Sep 02, 2009
Mario said...
Now you have us wait for something new every day
Sep 02, 2009
Johan Sölve said...
Nice, I could use this earlier today.

Now if only I could move [[posterous-content...]] between posts, I could fix this easily. And then not have the moved [[posterous-content]] deleted when I delete the post I brought it in with. That would be super.

I know you have this on the list and I hope it's getting closer. It's tedious to recreate an entire post just to add or change a photo.

And speaking of the nice gallery, can captions be added somehow?

Sep 02, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
FAAANTASTIC. No more relying on Gmail inline images. So awesome.
Sep 02, 2009
Aviraj Saluja said...
I second Johan's feature request for adding captions to photos (maybe show it in the mouse-over pop that says "click to view large"?)
Sep 02, 2009
Michael Doan said...
This is really handy. Although I noticed that you could have photos inline, before this feature was introduced, simply by having text between the photos. This allows for a mixture of inline and gallery. It looks like this feature can be used sen you want inline presentation but no text between the photos.
Sep 02, 2009
Ahsan Ali said...
Please add support for adding multiple images via the posterous bookmarklet!
Sep 02, 2009
Joan Vinall-Cox said...
Thanks - I really like the ((nogallery)) feature!
Sep 03, 2009
jetztgradnet said...
I would like the same as 'Cloud' above: a ((gallery)) hint, which turns a list of image links into a gallery.
Sep 03, 2009
Satish Medos said...
This is great had trouble a couple of times using inline images through gmail ....will try out this one soon ....As i always say keep them coming guys ...
Sep 03, 2009
Jana said...
thanks!
Sep 03, 2009
Ten High Street said...
Don't sell your camera Sachin.
Sep 03, 2009
Rob Arnold said...
Nice addition. Is there a page somewhere, kept current, listing all the ((whatever)) tags and any other markup/command type options? If not, may we have one please?
Thanks!
Sep 04, 2009
Michael Fidler said...
Love it. I second Ahsan's request to enhance the bookmarklet so we can post multiple images from it. Thanks!
Sep 04, 2009
jeff delkin said...
good stuff. you guys continue to improve the experience....
Sep 04, 2009
xea Baudoin said...
Thanks, very usefu!
Sep 04, 2009
Barbara (Great Getaways) said...
Thanks! Very helpful!
Sep 04, 2009
Brandon Fish said...
Thank you!
Sep 04, 2009
Don LaVange said...
brilliant. Posterous is the best!
Sep 04, 2009
Evan Bartlett said...
Awesome! Glad to see some new photo options!

Is there a way to embed them in the text?

Sep 04, 2009
streetart said...
Can i do this retrospectively? Can i now go to an existing post and in the "Title" field add ((no gallery)) and would that create inline images?
Sep 04, 2009
Verdana Rockwell said...
Love it!
Sep 04, 2009
Darren Herbold said...
Will this also work for the iPhone app? Neveond just tried and I guess the answer is "no.". Will that be an option added for the iPhone app as well?
Thanks
Sep 04, 2009
Clif Mims said...
Great tip. Thanks.
Sep 05, 2009
Lindy Asimus said...
Hmm. Looked like a good idea... posted a test and it turned up as a regular gallery layout. Go figger.
Sep 05, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Lindy, you put a space between "no" and "gallery". ((no gallery))

I'll make it more lenient so in the future it works even when there's a space

Sep 05, 2009
Lindy Asimus said...
Good to know! Many thanks. New to Posterous, but I find I like it a lot.
Sep 05, 2009
said...
The pictures will be arranged one after another - how about the posibility to put the pictures in between textblocks, I need that from time to time...
Sep 05, 2009
gg said...
Good features!
Sep 05, 2009
SFdude said...
((nogallery)) option is good!

BUT...need an option to add a small TEXT CAPTION
next to (or below) each photo!
How do you do that?

Sep 08, 2009
Julian Hinz said...
this is great! i would also really like the reverse, just like mentioned above, when sending links of photos making them appear in a gallery..
Sep 10, 2009
Erik Veland said...
So...any way of doing this retroactively when editing posts?
Sep 12, 2009
Gisele Diaz L. said...
Amazing! Options is what we need. Erik said something interesting. Its missing the option of changing this this when you edit. For example, the address of your post should change if you change the subject. And system should ask if you want to autopost again with this changes.
Sep 13, 2009
Emme Stone said...
This is a lovely new feature! Thank you!
Sep 15, 2009
John Johnston said...
I seem to have managed to get the nogallery bit in my post title?
http://slftalk.posterous.com/slftalk-instructions-audioboo-nogallery
Sep 15, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
john, your post was missing the last parenthesis ((nogallery)
Sep 15, 2009
John Johnston said...
Hi Sachin,
Thank, I am blushing, do you folk never sleep!
Sep 19, 2009
Shane Hall said...
What about being able to edit an album (delete photos etc) and add individual captions?
Sep 21, 2009
Justin Reid said...
Editing a gallery would be great (add/delete/sort images)

Loving the upgrades :-D

Sep 22, 2009
Barbro Eriksson said...
Thank you, I am glad for the new options!
Sep 22, 2009
Gisele Diaz L. said...
This gallery feature is winning me over. I even regret not being able to see the gallery there when you autopost. So its !great! that link that sends readers back to posterous for the complete gallery.

Suggestion: Wordpress and even Blogspot got every editable option (tags included) in on single board and also a quick edit option that doesn't take you out of the page you are on.

Sep 22, 2009
Gisele Diaz L. said...
I suggest you link this to the FAQ where you explain the gallery option. Thanks again!
Sep 22, 2009
Rebecca Joy Studios said...
Perfect...now you have everything I need with this and the themes. Cheers!
Sep 24, 2009
Jack Oswald said...
Is it possible to have the format of the images in the email preserved so that if I place 2 pics next to each other, that is how they will be viewed in Posterous? would be very nice.
Sep 28, 2009
sascha assbach said...
is there an (easy) way to do this with embeds? i mean when i post a link to vimeo or viddler for example it gets embedded. that's cool but what if i want to show the link and disable embeds for a certain part of the post (or the entire post)? do i have to use HTML?
Oct 02, 2009
Danny said...
"Sachin Agarwal said...
Lindy, you put a space between "no" and "gallery". ((no gallery))

I'll make it more lenient so in the future it works even when there's a space
"

The future is here and it's still not working with the space... Screwed up my post... gurrr... :)

Any way to remove the gallery view once it's there, other than hard coding it?

Oct 02, 2009
Jason Castle said...
Be sure to set your mail preferences to "plain text" instead of "rich text", or things might get garbled and your pics might show up in the wrong place. (Already went over this with Sachin.) In Mail (on the Mac), you can set your preference to "plain text", then if you want to bold some text in your normal email (to a friend, for example), it will ask you if you want to switch to "rich text", but it only does it for that message. Very cool. Anyway, I love Posterous; it is easy enough to use that I have finally started a blog. But, it's so easy and fun that it's keeping me from my other work!
Oct 05, 2009
Darren Herbold said...
http://darrenherbold.posterous.com/
I added the ((nogallery)) but it still displayed the gallery?
I used the iphone app. What should I do differently?
Oct 07, 2009
Joshua Ayers said...
this needs to be in the FAQ! neat feature :)
Oct 07, 2009
Gisele Diaz L. said...
I managed to post no galley image, text, no gallery picture, text, gallery, text from email. http://bit.ly/1LWGh. No galleries were links and gallery attachment automatically appear at the end. Any changes should be edited online.
Yes, new features will be very helpful in the FAQ.
Oct 07, 2009
james holloway said...
"this needs to be in the FAQ! neat feature :)"

Yes, some comprehensive documentation would be neat. It's a bit confusing having some tips here and others in the help section. Give me a shout if you'd like someone to compile it for you ;)

Oct 09, 2009
You said...
THANKS for this... I really needed this feature.
Oct 10, 2009
Kelli Downing said...
I am so glad this feature was added.
Nov 18, 2009
Stephen Daniels said...
Excellent feature. Sadly editing older posts by adding ((nogallery)) to the Title doesn't work :-(
Nov 23, 2009
Renjie Butalid said...
Is there a way to create multiple galleries in a post? Thanks!
Nov 26, 2009
apullarpictures said...
Please add text caption option
Dec 01, 2009
John-Paul said...
thank you for describing...
Dec 01, 2009
Silke Berz said...
please add this information to the FAQ!!! :-) I hat to ask a lot of people till I found this blogbpost! :)
Dec 06, 2009
Felipe Bastos said...
Hi. Does anyone knows how to edit a gallery posted on Posterous? I need to delete one picture but can't find how
Dec 15, 2009
Fernando Gutierrez said...
Is it possible to edit this in a post already published?
Dec 21, 2009
carlfranzon said...
Would this tag also remove the spam...hrmm..secretely added text about the gallery download link from autoposts to wordpress? Please, at least put it in a class so I can hide it myself! I don't like appended text to my posts.
Jan 09, 2010
Kurt Madsen said...
So, when is editing (adding/deleting) old gallery's going to come out?

And please don't respond with another nebulous "soon."

Jan 15, 2010
Andrew Abogado said...
It's really worth the time skimming the official posterous blog. I'm starting to get a plethora of useful tips. Thanks for this wonderful feature.
Jan 31, 2010
Sana said...
Hi, is there a way to add captions to individual pictures in a gallery?
Feb 08, 2010
Rodney Isemann said...
I could really do with editing an image in a gallery. I've posted some pics to try and track down the owners of an SD card I found in the sea (UK) but have changed my phone number.

Would be nice to just change that one pic.

BTW anybody in UK recognise any of these people here.

http://post.ly/HXL8

Thanks,

R!

Feb 09, 2010
Alastair Townsend said...
Just attached a group of sequentially numbered jpgs to an email (sent through gmail). They are out of order in the gallery. doh!

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