WP-SMF-Bridge is a simple user registration and logon bridge between WordPress and Simple Machine Forum. To get this working, it is highly recommended that you have a fresh, unmodified install of SMF 1.1 or higher installed and running alongside an install of WordPress. It must be installed in a subdirectory under your WP install and should not be being accessed through a sumdomain. For example, if your website’s address is mysite.mydomain.com, your forums should be somewhere like mysite.mydomain.com/myforum. Also, WordPress must be able to access your SMF configuration files, otherwise it won’t work!
Please do keep in mind that this is a new plugin, and has not been thoroughly tested yet – and should probably not be used on a production website! I am not responsible for any data loss that might occur through your use of this plugin! Please see the plugin’s website for a bug-tracker and bug reporting system! If you find a problem, let me know about it so that it may be fixed. If you want to see a feature added, let me know about it so that I may add it!

SMF Bridge

User registration and login bridge between Wordpress and Simple Machine Forum

Smoerble

This widget displays all members from a SMF forum. Depending on your settings, it displays only the name or name + avatar image, if user didn’t set an avatar in the SMF forum, it displays a generic image you can specify (see the example image below). Support: http://www.longu.de/_smfgm_redirect.php
The plugin adds a seperate configuration menu in the WP admin panel (called “SMF Groups”). You need to add the following data:
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<li>Add the database connection details to your Simple Machine Forum database.</li>
<li>Enter ID of the SMF member group you want to display in the widget.</li>
<li>Modify the HTML code for the widget.</li>
<li>If you want to display member avatars (from SMF), you NEED to modify the /attachments/.htaccess file.</li>
</ol>
Each field has an example what it should include.
The field “Limit” determines how many mambers are listed in total. Dummy image is optional. Needs to be a http:// URL. If you set it, it uses this image if a user has no image set in his SMF profile.
Important: SMF 2.0 adds a .htaccess file at “/forum/attachments/.htaccess”. This file blocks all requests from different domains. So if you want to use this widget to display a member group from a SMF forum from a different server/domain, you NEED to modify this .htaccess file (the needed steps are explained in the admin section of this widget).
Feedback needed! This is a very early version of the plugin. If you like it, it can be improved a lot, for example:
<ul>
<li>Links from each avatar to SMF profiles</li>
<li>Links from each avatar to other profiles (like FB)</li>
<li>More options for templating</li>
<li>Tag option to displays one member or all members inside a blog entry/article</li>
<li>Several predefined output settings</li>
<li>Better caching/performance (though it should be suitable for your needs already)</li>
<li>…</li>
</ul>

SMF Group Members

New admin screen with group dropdown! This widget displays all members from a SMF forum. It can display only the names or name + avatar image.

SMF Bridge vs SMF Group Members