Archive for the 'SMF' Category

Joomla 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 below is a quote from the announcement on the SMF forums along with a link to the full thread.
As some [...]

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 tables and JavaScript and usually have problems with most pages looking very similar to a [...]

How to keep links in your SMF news box from opening new windows

I like the News Box on top of the Simple Machines Forum pages. It’s a great feature, and an easy way to share important information with your users. The only problem I found is that when you use the [url][/url] BBC tags it creates a link that opens to a new window and [...]

Simple Machines 1.1.3 Released

Looks like it’s primarily a bug fix.
From the SMF Forums.
In this release, a few small security issues have been addressed. Also, a few bugs that were found have been fixed.
We urge all users to upgrade to SMF 1.1.3 as soon as possible to take advantage of these fixes. A summary of the fixes is as [...]

Simple Machine Forums User tracking with Google Analytics

Google Analytics gives you the ability to track visitors by custom variables, but I couldn’t seem to find much information on it until I knew the right term to search on - hint, it’s “__utmSetVar”.
The __utmSetVar javascript function lets you set a variable that Analytics will then use in the statistics it keeps. Say [...]