[motowebmaster]

After a bit of effort, I gave up trying to truly integrate G2.

What I ended up doing was setting up a new photo album system for Members, and importing my Gallery1 albums into Gallery2 separately.

After copying G2's Siriux Theme into a different name, I edited the template files so that it came roughly 95% of what my normal vbulletin theme looks like. Had to remove my top navbar, and the dynamic links.

My Gallery Album has over 29,000 photos in it. What I've learned over the years is that user turnover will leave many photos in any online album without owners. Since Gallery never really had a true relationship with any CMS's user management functions (just read it's database), it isn't a significant hardship to just integrate G2 visually and manually setup new moderator/user profiles for those with significant contributions to manage.

It may seem like a cop-out, but the end result still looks visually "stunning" and the current community can enjoy thousands of photos contributed over many years.

I'm still a big believer in Gallery, maybe someday it will offer a true vB integration.