If you are reading this, chances are that you already know what SMF is. If not, here you go. Quoting from their homepage:

Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.

SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!

SMF is the best free forum script in our opinion.

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This tutorial explains the steps using which you can install phpESP on your site. It is a free PHP/MySQL script for survey management. The installation document that comes with it gives more info than is needed, is aimed at those who have shell access and kind of makes it unnecessarily complicated for those of us who know FTPing, what a MySQL database is and how to use phpMyAdmin.

phpESP lets non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization.

Official Demo: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/demo/admin/manage.php

Current latest version: 2.0.2

Below are the installation instructions for phpESP:

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There are software programs like Launchy using which you can launch applications by typing the first few letters of the program name and hitting the return key. Once you start using these, you’ll realize that we can save the space that start menu takes up. So we started looking for a small program that will hide the start menu button yet makes menu itself available upon pressing the windows key. A free program called Start Killer by Tordex does the job.

Here’s how we hide the start menu and yet easily launch any desired program:

1. Set up FARR
2. Run Start Killer

Find And Run Robot

Find And Run Robot or FARR in its short form is a free program by DonationCoder that will display a small floating text box in which you type the name of the program you want to launch and press a number on your keyboard or use your arrow keys to move up/down and press the return key. We find it better compared to other similar solutions like Launchy because:

• We can press a number from the results list to launch a program
• It makes available a newly installed program much faster
• It has more advanced features

To get started with FARR,

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Dustin’s Ajax Contact Form is an unobtrusive (meaning, works even with JavaScript disabled) contact form done in PHP using which your site visitors can get in touch with you. It provides basic and most common form fields in a contact form.

Curent latest version: 0.9

Below are the instructions on how to set up on your site:

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Google limits the number of ads that you can place in your blog per page. When you place the adsense code by modifying index.php so that the ad appears below a post, the ad is going to appear beneath all the posts on your blog’s homepage. This is not what we want.

For the ad to only appear under the first post and nowhere else,

The Quick Way

Edit index.php and place the following code wherever you want the ad to appear:

  <?php if ($wp_query->current_post < 1) {
adsense_deluxe_ads('above_posts');
} ?>

Replace adsense_deluxe_ads(’above_posts’); with your adsense code. If you want the ad to appear below the post, you would paste the above before <?php endwhile; ?>

Source.

We’ve similarly placed 3 link units at the top of first three posts on our home page using this code:

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