The CMS Expert

Hello.The SMF team and Simple Machines have recently reviewed our policy on the use of the string "SMF" (upper or lower case) in usernames at simplemachines.org. We have this policy to prevent confusion, protect our reputation, and protect t…

Guess this was a bit overdue for a few years.  Name: LiroyAge: 22Location: the Netherlands, Holland, Dutchieland, whatever Quote: Feel free to…

Name: RichardAge: 39Location: EnglandPosition: Support Specialist    Do you have pets?    Two rescue cats and a dog. Their names are Jack, Jill (cats) Flash is the dog.    What kind of music do you like?Anythjing from…

Name: Rick KerkhofAge: 13Location: The Netherlands…all you need to know Quote: "Meh."Position: Support SpecialistDo you have pets?Yep, two dogs and a cat.What is your favorite color?…

A while back the SMF team decided that our existing bug tracking system did not match our needs. So, we began looking for a better solution. We found TheBugGenie (TB…

Hello all,As part of the 2.1 work we are reconsidering the themes we should include within the release package: we want to make it hold by default only one theme, the default theme, and have all other themes of interest developed as official themes ou…

Dear Users,SimpleMachines.org has grown not just as a forum support community but also as a place to socialize with each other and prove a helping hand to your fellow users. With that in mind, we have now introduced three custom profile fields for Fac…

Hey all,I'd like to present you a few bits on the people who are involved in SMF development, and a few changes you may have noticed lately.Today, we have a few people that have, each on their preferred areas, already gotten significantly involved…

Hey all,There are questions in the boards and everywhere about the future of SMF after the long-awaited 2.0 milestone. Some of you remember or have an idea about how long it took from start to finish, and the difficulties we had along the way. Enough …

On January 31, 2011 a known member of the community, and a team member here at Simple Machines, lost the one he loved through cancer, this loss effected our friend a lot and he found it hard to live without the one he loved, so on February 14, 2011, Pa…

Antechinus recently committed a change (REV 10827) to add jQuery 1.6.4 minified to SMF. It is a huge change for SMF. We've always written our own code with minor exceptions. Now we're escaping the "not invented here" me…

Simple Machines is proud to announce that we are releasing the integration used for the Simple Machines Wiki.  This integration has been adapted from the original by [url=http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension…

Hello all,We wanted to let you know that the customization team is going to add a simple new requirement to all mods and themes submitted to the simplemachines.org customization site. We're doing this to keep things simple — to avoid confusion ab…

I have a great position on the SMF team. Not only do I write documentation but I also have an additional group/role as a developer. So, I get to commit code to SMF and help make sure people understand how to use it. Code documentation is a perfect oppo…

Dear valuable users,Simple Machines is very proud to announce the long awaited upgrades and expansion to our server setup and infrastructure.As many of you have encountered over the past months, the site/community responded slowly and would often spi….

During my time as the Documentation Team Leader I have brought on board several excellently talented people, brought us from antiquated documentation site to the wiki, made documentation a community level task, promoted our documentation in every possi…

There hasn't been a blog post from developers for a while, unfortunately, and I'll take the opportunity of a little initiative we've started, to present a few things to you. Yes, these are only a few things.We all know how long the develop…

Its been 6 wonderful months since I joined the team, I though of sharing some more info about me for those who wanna know Name: Jessica.Age: Location: México CityQuote: "Sin talento no busques grandeza, Porque nunca la vas…