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 [...]
This post describes how to integrate Vanilla’s new commenting system with your WordPress blog. Using Vanilla as a commenting system will better engage readers and help accelerate the growth of your community. When a blog article is published, a new discussion is created in the forum community and the comments on the blog post are [...]
Today, we’re announcing our latest feature: Vanilla Comments. This feature will allow those of you who have a blog or news site to use Vanilla as a commenting system and really engage readers who might otherwise just enter a comment and leave. (Check out the comments on this article to see what it looks like). [...]
In a recent blog post, we wrote about the threat that new, more engaging social media platforms pose to forums running on legacy forum software. While discussion forums remain the best format for people to come together and exchange ideas online, several new platforms are vying to replace traditional forum communities by focusing on better [...]
A successful community is an engaging and welcoming place where people can build new connections and discover new things. Vanilla Badges and Reactions are at the foundation of our member-driven reputation and recommendation engine, which helps you build an engaged and positive community. Vanilla Reactions allow members to quickly react in different ways to discussions [...]
Live-Blogging Blogworld LA 2011: Why Peter still believes in Klout, but has some issues with its current state, having been a big fan from the beginning.
Congratulations to @doctorklein , enjoy your new iPad 2! Here’s what the Dr. had to say “The Vanilla layout is clean and beautiful, I can customize just about everything, and it integrated flawlessly to my wordpress page. Can’t wait to start our vanilla forum discussions on my new ipad2!” We would like to thank everyone [...]
Vanilla is a growing team and in March Greg Marlin joined as our new Vice-President of Sales and Marketing. We are very excited to have him aboard! More about Greg Greg has diverse experience working for companies ranging from software start-ups to a large multinational in the form of Siemens AG. He has worked at [...]
Vanilla is a growing team and recently we just hired Lizzie McGlinchey as our new project manager. We are very excited to have her aboard! More about Lizzie Lizzie McGlinchey is a Web Project Manager. She has managed the production of large-scale, fashion e-commerce projects in addition to the development of social media games, contests, [...]
This is the third article in a series of articles called the “Knowledge Center“. These articles are aimed at helping you understand what steps are necessary to get your community off the ground and help it grow and flourish. Here’s a sneak peak of future articles: What to do first when setting up a forum [...]
Vanilla allows you to reward your users for positive participation. The result is a more engaged audience that brings high quality content to the forefront of your community.
Todd Burry Lead Developer, Co-Founder
Tim Gunter Developer & System Administrator
Lizzie McGlinchey Project Manager
Mark O'Sullivan CPO, Co-Founder, Sandwich Expert
Matt Lincoln Russell Developer
Luc Vezina CEO
