Archive for the 'SMF' Category

Holiday 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 forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas.  It’s scheduled to [...]

Bookmarking 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 few source files, and changes to several others, my Simple Machines Forum now gives my users [...]

How 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 the same process to get it to work.

Inserting 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 if a visitor bookmarks a page they bookmark the first page in the thread instead of bookmarking a later page in a [...]

Simple 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:

* Inline modification of a board which had moderators was not working correctly.
* Stop CDATA blocks breaking preview/quick modify.
* Allow [...]