SMF Tutorial

Getting Started with SMF Community

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is one of the most popular free discussion board scripts. It is free to use and download. Moreover, it is very dynamical, it can be easily installed and administered, and it also allows a great flexibility with its design and organization. This free discussion board has become even more widely used with the release of the phpBB3 branch. There have been much new functionalities added.

That is why TMDHosting SMF Hosting Package is a wonderful choice. Essentially, it is not an upgrade of the old release but a whole new application. If you are interested in using the old version SMF 1.x, you can also do this, however bear in mind that the new one is full of load of new features. Luckily, you also have the opportunity to migrate a phpBB forum to SMF for FREE retaining all the content and currently registered users.

This SMF tutorial is devised in a few sections:

• SMF Tutorial
• Automatic SMF Installation
• Manual SMF Installation
• User Management in SMF
• How to Moderate SMF
• How to Administrate SMF
• How to Change Themes and Styles
• How to Change Language Packs
• How to Add Modules and Packages
• How to Create SMF Backups
• SMF and Joomla Integration
• phpBB to SMF Migration