Five Ways to Give your Vanilla Community Personality

16. Oct, 2012 by in Community Building, Developers, Help | No Comments »

Back in April, Mark blogged about why Vanilla is called Vanilla. When you get started with Vanilla, you start with something plain and simple – a blank canvas. You then build it up the way you want it. Whether your objective is to provide better customer service or provide a online home for enthusiasts, your [...]

Implementing Vanilla jsConnect Single-Signon on your Site

5. Apr, 2012 by in Help | Tags: , | No Comments »

jsConnect uses javascript to allow cross-domain single-signon with another site. This is useful if you have members registered on your site and you don’t want them to have to re-register in Vanilla. Learn how to implement jsConnect on your site.

Forum Migration Best Practices – 6 ways to prepare

4. Apr, 2012 by in Community Building, Help | No Comments »

Migrating from your current forum software (for example, Jive, VBulletin, Invision Board, etc.) to Vanilla is an exciting and wonderful thing.  It’s important to realize how your community may react during this transition, because keeping your existing community active and happy is of the utmost importance. Most users will be wary of change regardless of [...]

Getting Started Checklist

23. Mar, 2012 by in Help | No Comments »

Congrats, you’ve signed up for a Vanilla forum!  Now what? Starting a community is an exciting but large undertaking.  Sometimes it can be difficult to know where to begin, especially if this your first time using Vanilla Forums.  Here’s a list of 10 things we recommend you do first. 1. Confirm Account and Billing info. [...]

Growing Your Online Community – 6 Starting Points

13. Mar, 2012 by in Help | No Comments »

One of the best things about starting a forum is experiencing the impressive reach and quality of content that a forum community can create.  One of the most difficult things about starting a forum, though, is growing that community.  It can be a daunting task, and there’s certainly no single correct way to do it. [...]