We are happy to announce the Vanilla Forums Partner Program! As of right now you will earn a 20% revenue share on any client you bring to VanillaForums.com. Full details of the Vanilla Forums Partner Program here.
One of the most common questions we get on the community forums is how can I change the “Howdy Stranger” text on my forum? While we don’t have complete translations available for Vanilla 2 yet (there are many non-native-English speaking community members working on this), you can most certainly make little text changes on your [...]
It’s been exactly five years since Vanilla 1 was released back in 2005. Back then Vanilla quickly became one of the most popular discussion forum solutions for small communities, and was even adopted by some rather large communities like Mozilla. Two years ago we took another look at Vanilla and realized there was still an [...]
Part 1 of a multi-part in-depth review of Vanilla 2′s plugin framework. With the release of Vanilla 2 coming within the next week or so, I thought I would write a little post about a few of the new things we’ve added for plugin authors over the last month.
We are pleased to announce Vanilla 2 Release Candidate 3. Obviously this release has many bug fixes & improvements over the last release candidate. This release also has the inclusion of some new plugins we are planning on bundling with the final Vanilla 2 release. They are a little late to the game, but inclusions [...]
We have decided to support Smarty Templates in rc2. The decision was made to help designers build custom themes quickly and easily without having to write a bunch of php code. *NOTE: You can still use php if you like Quick rundown of the new Vanilla Smarty Templates We’ve renamed default.master.php to default.master.tpl. You will [...]
Hey guys, we have launched a new blog on VanillaForums.com! We will be moving a good majority of content over there, specifically anything to do with VanillaForums.com (member news, plans, features, help/support, etc), company news, and anything else not directly related to developers and the VanillaForums.org community. Over the next few weeks we will be [...]
I have added 4 new Vanilla 2 themes to the addons on VanillaForums.org. I will be releasing a bunch more over the next few weeks. Play with them and let me know if you find any bugs. iVanilla Minalla Yellow Rounder Light Grunge
During Make Web Not War, we had the opportunity to discuss Vanilla with CT Moore of NVI Solutions.
I just wanted to post a quick update on Vanilla 2 theme development. I have been working on a bunch of new themes to be released on vanillaforums.com and in Addons. I uploaded a sneak peak to our flickr pool, let me know what you think? More importantly I would really love for the community [...]
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