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New Social Networking Fields on SimpleMachines.org

Posted by AngelinaBelle on April 24, 2012, 05:06:30 PM

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 Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as they are the most popular social networking sites around. This will allow you to grow your network further and get in touch with fellow forum owners and professionals.

We may even introduce a few more social networking fields in the future, without making the profile area overflow with icons.  We encourage you to add links to your profile and get in touch with other users in the SMF community. We hope that all users will welcome this step towards a more friendly and social community.

We sincerely hope you appreciate it and will use it!

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If you are interested in making a change like this on your own forum, please read more about Profile Fields for SMF 2.0 in our Online Manual
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sonficyus on April 25, 2012, 03:16:11 PM said
is this option only for SMF 2.0? and When will we meet SMF 2.0 instead of SMF 1.1.2312312?

Thank you for answers...
(F.L.A.M.E.R) on April 25, 2012, 03:18:33 PM said
Forgot to add this. :)

Please note: These changes are not made to the core functionality of the software. You will not find these custom profile fields added to your profile by default when a fresh copy (any version) of Simple Machines Forum is installed.
Joshua Dickerson on April 25, 2012, 03:45:59 PM said
Quote from: sonficyus on April 25, 2012, 03:16:11 PM
is this option only for SMF 2.0?
Yes. However, this blog post was regarding this forum in particular.

Go to your profile to setup your social networking links.
Digharatta on April 25, 2012, 03:49:19 PM said
Hi Angelina,

Thank you for your noble efforts.

Quote from: AngelinaBelle on April 24, 2012, 05:06:30 PM
If you are interested in making a change like this on your own forum, please read more about Profile Fields for SMF 2.0 in our Online Manual

I have read it. What can I do next? I have not found such a section in my forum settings.

Best wishes,
Joshua Dickerson on April 25, 2012, 04:04:12 PM said
Digharatta, if you are using SMF 2.0, please open a support topic. This feature is not available on SMF 1.1 or 1.0.
Kindred on April 25, 2012, 04:14:55 PM said
Quote from: sonficyus on April 25, 2012, 03:16:11 PM
When will we meet SMF 2.0 instead of SMF 1.1.2312312?

Not sure what you mean by this.
SMF 2.0 was released a while ago. Sinc then we have had 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 as security releases.
SMF 2.1 will be the next (semi)major release.
Runic on April 28, 2012, 09:14:28 AM said
Its great to see SMF Site finally including social media this is one thing this site has missed out on.
Kindred on April 28, 2012, 09:30:03 AM said
well, hey, why not go all the way?

LiveJournal
MySpace
Pinterest
YouTube
Google+
WordPress
etc?
Runic on April 28, 2012, 09:38:10 AM said
one step at a time :) we dont want to overwhelm sLeePy do we?
SleePy on April 29, 2012, 12:58:04 AM said
MySpace?  That place still exists :P
Its like AOL of today.
Doctor Deejay on May 01, 2012, 09:06:40 AM said
I think this is a very nice addition. :) Great news team :D
vbgamer45 on May 08, 2012, 03:16:40 PM said
I like the fields a lot. Maybe a quick tutorial of if possible include in next release of SMF.
Runic on May 08, 2012, 03:39:01 PM said
Quote from: vbgamer45 on May 08, 2012, 03:16:40 PM
I like the fields a lot. Maybe a quick tutorial of if possible include in next release of SMF.

thats actually a good idea, specially if it is just custom profile fields that are being used.
Labradoodle-360 on May 08, 2012, 03:45:46 PM said
Google+ and YouTube would probably be good ones to add, I don't agree with the others, Kindred :P
Kindred on May 08, 2012, 03:59:01 PM said
Pinterest is almost a must...
karlbenson on May 20, 2012, 10:11:31 AM said
Google+ would be good.

But generally speaking it would be good also have Google +1 Buttons on each page so topics can be rated.
Labradoodle-360 on May 20, 2012, 01:30:36 PM said
It'd also be good if we could put some sort of mask on the fields that strips the domain if people enter it. I've seen a couple of people that put the full URL, so the URL breaks because it's doubled.
Srinib on July 06, 2012, 03:49:36 PM said
How come i can't find those three(Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) in the Forum profile in my forum? My forum runs on 2.0.2. And so is SMF. But i see those details in my SMF account.
Arantor on July 06, 2012, 03:57:00 PM said
Because you have to add them yourself.

All that has happened is the team has used the custom profile fields feature in SMF to add them to this forum and it's not hard to do the same for your own forum.
Joshua Dickerson on October 24, 2012, 11:33:25 AM said
Quote from: vbgamer45 on May 08, 2012, 03:16:40 PM
I like the fields a lot. Maybe a quick tutorial of if possible include in next release of SMF.
A tutorial on how to add these to SMF 2.0 would be very nice to have.
Arantor on October 24, 2012, 04:46:42 PM said
*cough* http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=374284.0
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