A few months ago I started a photography forum with another moderator from a previous forum I was on. Part of our goal was to have a library of articles in a static site and link those articles back to a Simple Machines forum for discussion. For the CMS I decided on Etomite since I’ve [...]
Are you thinking of starting a new forum with Simple Machines but don’t know where to start? Fortunately SMF has a very easy installation process. The most time consuming task for this tutorial was actually downloading the file and writing out the steps. The installation itself only took about 15 minutes. Download the files SMF [...]
If you’re running a forum where users post photographs, easy viewing of EXIF information is a great addition. There is a modification for SMF that makes adding EXIF support easy. Like most SMF modifications it’s just a matter of uploading the mod file and applying it to your setup. As you can see, the modification [...]
Looking for an easy way to add custom fields to the profile pages on your Simple Machines forum? Maybe you’re running a photography forum and want a field for your members to enter what type of cameras they use. The Custom Profile Field package for SMF makes it easy. Installation is straightforward thanks to the [...]
With the addition of a Google Sitemap to your Simple Machines forum you can help Google, and other search engines that support the sitemap XML format, index your site more quickly. While sitemaps for your human visitors have been suggested as good SEO techniques for years, XML sitemaps have only recently become a standard. The [...]