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Registered: 06/04/06
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Basically you'll want to create a gallery forum. Then in the Control Panel under Portal, you'll use the Gallery Islands to create a Gallery island to pull images from that gallery forum. Once that's done you just edit the Portal Layout and choose that Gallery Island to be displayed in the left column.
In the control panel select Portal>Portal settings. You then have a field called "Forums to pull news from" You can multi select each forum to display in the portal. Then change "Number of news items to display on the Main Portal page?" to however many posts to display.
If you have private forums then don't select them.
The portal page in the center only shows recent topics. At the bottom right of each post is a field called comments that is the replies. You can add a post island on the side to show recent posts which will show replies. For moderators goto display options>General>Forum Summary Options and deselect Show forum moderators.