When a user registers to a Vanilla Forum and doesn’t upload a profile picture, a Vanillicon is automatically created. What’s a Vanillicon? It’s a unique avatar that’s created based on the username entered. Vanillicons have been in use in Vanilla Forums for a long time, in fact, over 300,000 of them have been created so [...]
WishList Member is a popular membership solution that lets you turn your WordPress site into a members’s only site. Vanilla has recently created a WishList Members extension so that you can partially or completely restrict access to your Vanilla Forum. The integration works by synchronizing the membership levels in WishList to the roles and permissions [...]
Yesterday one of our monitoring tools alerted us that AutoSec Tools reported a “local file inclusion” vulnerability in Vanilla 2. We examined the report, and attempted to duplicate the vulnerability across a variety of systems. We were unable to verify that the exploit was, in fact, a functional exploit. As a result, we are not [...]
On Jan 27, 2010 at noon our servers began experiencing unexpected load. When we dug into the issue, we discovered that a remote attack was being performed against our service, causing a fault in one of the core modules on our primary server. We were forced to perform emergency maintenance that brought down our hosting [...]
It’s all in the details! When designing your Vanilla theme you’re going to need some sample, or dummy content. Something to theme! The dummy content file contains everything you will need to ensure your final design is complete. Download dummy content now! Theme away!
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Todd Burry Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder
Tim GunterDirector of Infrastructure and Ops
Mark O'SullivanCo-Founder
Matt Lincoln Russell Developer
Luc Vezina CEO
