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 [...]

Add a preview to your WordPress comment box

Yesterday I was browsing around the blog world and came across this posting on keeping a clean desk. I found the topic interesting enough to leave a comment, but that’s not really the point. What I saw as I typed was that below the comment box was a preview of what I was [...]

How 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, plus it’s pretty mindless to add Google or Yahoo videos as well.
I had the Custom BBC [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]