SEO4SMF – My experiences a month in
One of the things you'll notice as a forum admin is that it can be very difficult to get a steady stream of search engine traffic. Not impossible, but forum pages often have a lot of HTML fluff like...
View ArticleJoomla to SMF Bridge discontinued
Due to changes in how the Joomla authors are interpreting the GPL the bridge between Joomla and Simple Machines Forum is being discontinued. Since I don't fully understand all the nuances of the GPL...
View ArticleHow to embed YouTube videos in SMF forum
There is a mod for SMF that allows you to embed YouTube videos fairly easily, but I didn't find it until after I worked out a way that I think works as well and doesn't take a separate modification,...
View ArticleSimple Machines 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 Released
The SMF team announced that they have released both the 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 versions of their forum software. Primarily a bug fix release these two releases fix the following issues. From the SMF site: *...
View ArticleInserting AddThis.com widget in Simple Machines Forum
After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum. What I wanted to make sure would happen is that...
View ArticleHow important is design to the success of a forum?
How important do you think design is to the success of a forum? It's an extremely popular topic on web design forums. Content or design? Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum? I...
View ArticleHow to embed a Google Video in SMF
About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost...
View ArticleBookmarking threads on an SMF board
This is one of those features I've been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend. With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a...
View ArticleSMF and StopForumSpam.com
Found a great site over at StopForumSpam.com. Over the past few weeks I've been checking registrations on a couple of my forums against their database. What I've found is that most of the registrations...
View ArticleHoliday Cheer on Forums
Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? Over on my photography...
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