Everyone knows that I just can not live without Jumla, but, in my opinion, there is no good forum in the components. Therefore, I work with forum engines. One of the new ones I just recently began to use is starting a new category SMF, I hope with a useful material. We start with small, well, and as newcomers are very useful.

First steps in SIMPLE MACHINES FORUM search engine optimization: We delete copywrites and external links

Immediately make a reservation that I only work SMF 2 and this article will relate to this version of the free forum engine.

And so, permanent readers know how much I do not like to put on "10" external references to the official sites of the engines, including forum. That is why the first thing I delete copywrites and whole 4, attention 4 external references of the species " SMF 2.0.2 | SIMPLE MACHINES | SMF © 2011 | Xhtml "! To do this, connect to the site for FTP Forum / Themes / name of your topic/ and edit the file index.template.php.. Naturally, at the bottom there is a code (about 330 lines), which is taking out that not believable to us external links. Therefore, we delete: "

If someone does not know, Simple Machines Forum - for brevity SMF is, as it is stated on the official website, a free, professional level package, which will allow you to organize your own online community in a few minutes. On this engine, you can see here. I myself set my forum on it (by the way, come in freeforum.biz).

No matter, a lot or little spam appears on your forum. It is important that you spend your precious time to moderation. Setting the plugin that will do all the work for you takes a few minutes, and it will save you, in total, days and months, which will be collaborated from those minutes that you would spend on erasing messages and delete users.

I note that I tried to fight my own spammers - blocked IP access and even at subnets. It really worked, sifled a lot of garbage, but, nevertheless, once in one or two days someone made his way. And quite a long time went on replenishing the base of the banned IP. I thought that there should be a more convenient way, and he really found!

1. Installing and configuring STOP SPAMMER

For two weeks of work, this plugin blocked 2202 fake users. Each of them would leave, for a minimum, one post. Spammers are not going to slow down turnover and every day I would spend time on clearing your forum.

Instead, once a few days I go to the user management page, I see there something like this:

I turn to the section "Expect approval" (this is the found spammers that are deprived of the opportunity to leave messages before approving their accounts by the administrator). I put a tick "to allocate all" and remove them with one click:

That's all, all spam accounts are sent to unprecedented. Return to our list of users:

It can be seen that the list was noticeable, but who is the rest? We highlight all and send one button to check:

One "red" appeared, I immediately delete it. If you have free time, you can do others. If there is no time, do not do anything with new users - most of them are "blushing" with subsequent checks. If you have time, you can go to their profiles and see if there is a link in the signature - immediately in the ban, these are fake spammers that will never leave a single useful message.

I told how to use this magic plugin, now I will tell you how to install it.

Download two files: language_full.zip (this is a language package for translation plugin) and StopSPAMMER_V2_3_9.zip (the number may be different, since the versions are updated). Unpack the contents of the archive stopspammer_v2_3_9.zip in some folder. In the same folder, unpack the Language_full.zip archive, agree to replace the files. Now pack our folder to the zip archive.

In the admin step, go to the installation of packages. Opposite the "Download Package" inscription there is a button to select a file on a computer. Choose our new archive (where we replaced the language file), unload it to the forum and activate the package.

That's all ready!

Additional setting of the plugin occurs in the admin: Go to

Users → Registration → Setup

You can leave the default values \u200b\u200bthere. Even there there is the "Your API key" field. Without this key, you will not be able to report new spammers (but the plugin will work and filter well-known spammers). If you want to get your own API key, go to the website www.stopforumspam.com for registration, and then specify the key here. If you have not received the key, leave the field empty. Then the default key will be used.

2. Installing and configuring Anti-Spam Links

At the Adepts of the Seo Religion (more about my attitude to Seo-Nists can see in another) there is a solid conviction that increasing the number of references to your site, they "promote it" (for some reason the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating interesting and high-quality content to anyone from They do not occur). There would be a sucker, and ways to pull out money from it will be found. So, some "citizens" provide services on the "run" sites on the forums. They create a large number of accounts on different forums and insert back links in the signatures and in other available fields. Despite the fact that even "CEO experimenters" has proven to be experienced, the lot from these links is zero, some warn that it is possible to get a ban from search engines, Yandex, for example, just ignores links to all forums and sites where any can Leave links. Google also has similar algorithms - ignoring references in comments, etc. But the law is not written, the law is not written ... Therefore, we, owners of forums, have to be reckoned with those facts that "steep seed optimizers" for a thousand rubles are ordered by "run" of their befickers.

A lot of Stop Spammer plugin. But we can help him! You can knock out from under the legs of spammers, it is of interest to post links on your forum. It is for this that you need Anti-Spam Links. This plugin (specific numbers can be changed in the settings) does so:

• those who, for example, less than five posts, can not leave links at all
• those who, for example, less than 15 messages, can not leave active links, is removed from the link http: // and generally these links become Nubolinki (newbielink)
• those who, for example, less than 50 messages can leave active links, but all links receive the Nofollow attribute.
• well, those who have more than 50 messages can insert the most common active references that transmit the weight of the site page to which they refer.

Believe me, the grief-optimizers are very closely related to what form their link hits the site. They will quickly lose interest to your forum, if you can not easily leave your shit and links there to your shit sites there.

Yes, by the way, the rules above work in these fields as a signature.

To install this plugin, go to its official page. Download the ANTI_SPAM_LINKS_V1.0.1.zip archive (the number may be different). Again in the forum admin. Scroll to install packages (how it was done with the previous package) and install it. There is no language file for this package, so you do not need to unpack the archive or something with it.

To configure the plugin, go to the section

Configuration → Modov Setup ... → Setting up modifications

At your own desire, it is necessary to stand up how many messages must have a user to upgrade its capabilities.

Conclusion

These two plugins greatly facilitate you, the owner of the forum, life and save a lot of time. However, from time to time spammers break through and, at least once a week, you need to "rush" users and delete spam messages. So do not throw your web resources!

Hello, dear blog readers Website. So, we continue the theme of the forum engine settings called SMF, started in the post about it. There we have not yet made the Russian Forum, in terms of translation from the English interface. At the moment it looks not very presentable, but after Russification (if it has not yet been produced) and the creation of the relevant sections, its view will significantly improve.

Today we will consider the topic of registration and make it Russian, as well as put the Jfusion component, which can work with both engines (and Juma, and CMF), which will allow you to have a common database of users for two and only one form of their registration and entry.

Themes and installation of the Russian Language Package

The Simple Machines Forum engine supports the possibility of changing topics, and they can be changed, both for the entire forum the whole and for individual sections in particular. Personally, I used the default design theme, but at the same time it made quite a few changes to it manually. In particular, I changed the background, the color solutions of some elements, added o'clock on the flash, radio and much more, what I will tell in the subsequent posts of this category.

Why did I not use any of the additional decorations when creating a forum? Well, here, probably, the whole thing in my laziness. No, I was not too lazy to search and download new topics, the benefits of places where it can be done, many. My laziness lies in the other.

The fact is that all the variety of mods for this engine designed to expand its capabilities, oriented precisely on a default topic. I explain. If the topic of registration you have default, then adding a mod or other in SMF takes place in seconds and, as a rule, does not require manual correction code.

In the case of installing the Fashion on the topic of design, different from the default, it will be necessary, as they say, all untreated parts are treated with a file. In other words, you will have to use FileZilla (download and configure it can access the FTP site and open the files of your forum engine to edit the files in which this mod contributes.

Then search for the desired location in the code and produce the necessary actions: either the replacement of the code, or delete, or add a portion of the code before or after the fragment. If we consider that the files in which you want to make changes can be around the top ten, then you can imagine how trouble will do it. At the same time, you need to be very attentive and not mistaken, because otherwise the forum may not open at all.

If all the problems listed above are not afraid of using you, you can download them from here. Themes there are sorted by sections (minimalism close to classical, modern, etc.) and for each of them you can see its screenshot for a full screen. How to install these very topics I will tell a little later.

If you have not Russified the forum at the stage of filling the drive of the hosting engine, as described in the first part of this opus (see the link at the very beginning of the article), then you can do it now. The Russian language package has previously downloaded from this page with the desired, you need to unpack, and then copy the themes folder to the root folder where the directory is already present with the same name.

At the end of the copy, you need to go to the forum under the login and password of the administrator. Select the "Admin" item in the top menu, and then in the left column, click on the Server Settings item.

In the window that opens, find the "Default Forum Language" item and select the Russian language from the drop-down list, and then press the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

Everything, now your conference is already completely in Russian.

Solving problems when installing do not support Russian mods

Please note that in the future, when adding modes on SMF, not having a Russian translation, you can sometimes have a problem with displaying modogue settings in admin. Actually, these most settings in the admin will simply not see, because There will be no Russification files for them. Therefore, you will have two options for solving this problem.

The first way is to transition to English for the entire forum. How can this be done, you can see several paragraphs above. Accordingly, after you produce the necessary actions with these settings, you will need to return to Russian again.

The second way is more complicated, but it will allow us to see the settings of the installed mods in the administrator, and not only when activating the English language. I stay in this way at this moment, because the question is that someone installed the mod and cannot find its settings in the administrator of his conference, is very common.

So, the second way is to add a translation lines to Russification files for just added mods. How to determine which Russification files need to make changes and where to take them, I will tell later. In the meantime, temporarily, you can use the first way.

Jfusion Installation for Site Integration and Forum

First you need to download JFusion and its Russification. Entering the Jumlé administration, we select "Expansion" from the top menu, select "Install / Delete" - "Download Package File" - "Overview" button - find the file with the JFusion_Package.zip component - click on the button " Download File & Install\u003e.

After that, a window appears that reports that the component is set successfully. If there are problems, then you can familiarize yourself with the options for solving some of them according to the slightly above link.

Now the queue is for Russification, which is added in the same way as the component itself. Those. We repeat the sequence of actions: "Extensions" - "Install / Delete" - "Download Package File" - "Overview" button - find the Jfusion Rusification file on your computer - click on the "Download File & Install" button. Now we can go to the settings along the path "components" - "jfusion" and make sure that Russification was successfully added and works.

Good luck to you! To ambiguous meetings on the blog pages Website

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Let's start immediately from the main script code:

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# Which-Forum.pl script
# (C) 2010 Alexandr A Alexeev, http: // Site /

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