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 [...]

Bridging forums, blogs, and content areas

From an email Thank you in advance for responding to this question. I am getting involved in a project that has blogging and news component but also member ship area and forumz. I am not sure that wordpress is enough. For blogging it seems fine, for a social networking maybe not. I am looking for [...]

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 search [...]

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 I was [...]

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 [...]