2. Aug, 2010 by admin in Help | Tags: Custom Theme, Google Translate, How To | 2 Comments »
If you’re looking for a simple way to translate your Vanilla forum you can easily add Google Translate with Custom Theme. *The Custom Theme feature is available to Plus and Premium Plan members only! What is Google Translate? Google Translate is a free statistically-based machine translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section [...]
5. Jul, 2010 by Todd in Help | Tags: export, import, upgrade | 99 Comments »
This topic deals with importing your old forum into Vanilla 2.
25. Jun, 2010 by admin in Help | Tags: Helps, How To, Theme Options, Themes | 4 Comments »
Some Vanilla themes can be customized with additional options if they have a Theme Options page. Theme Options can include: color styles, text areas, and images. *This feature is available to all members. What we will cover Locating Theme Options The Theme Options Page Lets begin! Locating Theme Options There are 2 ways to locate [...]
22. Jun, 2010 by Mark in Help | Tags: Did you know?, mentions | 1 Comment »
You know how you can @mention your friends in twitter? You can do that in Vanilla too. Just put an @ in front of the person (or people’s) name: And then their names will be linked to their profile on the resulting comment: And the user will also receive a notification in their profile that [...]
18. Jun, 2010 by admin in Help | Tags: Did you know?, Helps, YouTube | 1 Comment »
Embedding YouTube Video You can easily embed a YouTube video using a simple span class: <span class=”youtube-embed”>M8BxbdQqMRE</span> Enter the above code in any new discussion or discussion comment. *NOTE: The video id is located in the YouTube URL after the = . That’s it!
15. Jun, 2010 by Todd in Template Tags | Tags: Custom Theme, Helps, Template Tags, Themes | Comments Off
Tag Name literal Description The literal tag is used to enclose content that you don’t want to be parsed by the custom theme. Use this tag when you have content with curly-braces, but they aren’t tags. Example {literal} body { font-family: Verdana; } {/literal} See full list of Template Tags
15. Jun, 2010 by digibomb in Template Tags | Comments Off
Tag Name searchbox Description The searchbox tag is used to display the default search function. Values There are no values for this tag. Example <div id=”Search”>{searchbox}</div> This will display the search function inside of a div called Search. See full list of Template Tags
15. Jun, 2010 by digibomb in Template Tags | Comments Off
Tag Name logo Description The logo tag is used to display the custom logo uploaded under banner in the dashboard. Values There are no values for this tag. Example <h1>{logo}</h1> This will display your custom logo inside an H1 tag. See full list of Template Tags
15. Jun, 2010 by digibomb in Template Tags | Comments Off
Tag Name link Description The link tag is used to simplify linking to different views in your forum. For example you can write {link path=”discussions”} inside the href HTML tag instead of the full path. *NOTE: This tag must have a value associated with it in order function correctly Values dashboard/settings – links to your [...]
15. Jun, 2010 by digibomb in Template Tags | Comments Off
Tag Name asset Description The asset tag is used to display blocks of information, like your discussions or the side panel. *NOTE: This tag must have a value associated with it in order function correctly Usage {asset name=”$value”} Values Head – Displays Head data between the <head></head> HTML tags. Content – Displays Discussion data. Panel [...]
