Simple Machines Forum or SMF is a free online community builder. One of its main advantages is that its template structure allows full control over your message board and integration with your website. It is feature-rich yet resource efficient bulletin board.

The SMF forumboard allow management of the options and settings of the news and newsletter section within the Simple Machine Forum application.

In order to access the news and newsletter section you should login as administrator of your forum and then navigate to Administration Center>News and Newsletter. Please place one news item per box. BBC tags, such as [b], [i] and [u] are allowed in your news, as well as smileys. Clear a news item's text box to remove it.


The “News” page

This feature allows you to display a short news message. When the SMF is installed by default there is an SMF - Just Installed message. You can modify this message to some custom message as you wish. just click on the Click here to add another item after you write the message press the Save button under the section.

Newsletters and Announcements in SMF

This feature is very suitable if you need to send an email to some forum members or all members of your forum. You can check to whom you would like to send email from the checkboxes under the Membergroups. Once you are done with the selection of members, you can proceed to the Advanced section of the Newsletters page. On this page, you are able to see several options:


Email Addresses - Here you can add additional email addresses to send them the newsletter too
Members - you can add additional members to receive the newsletter
Excluded Groups/Members - Here you can select groups or members that absolutely can not receive the newsletter under any condition
Override Notification Settings - Send this to members even if they have chosen not to receive announcements

Manage Newsletters in SMF

The “Settings” page

On this page the administrator of the forum can change the settings and permissions related to news and newsletters.



Groups allowed to edit news items - Select a groups that you would like to allow to add and edit news items
Groups allowed to send out forum newsletters - Select a groups that you would like to allow to send newsletters
Enable XML/RSS news - Allows people to link to the RSS feeds of recent posts made on your forum
Maximum message length - Here you can specify the maximum amount of characters to show for each RSS feed item

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