This is the second 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 [...]
Getting started and setting up Vanilla is easy, but building and managing a successful community can take time. We understand how to create a successful community, it’s what we do, and we want to help you build a successful community as well. Reflecting on our success as community builders over the past years we have [...]
Vanilla Forums is growing its team. Vanilla Forums was first released in 2005, and has been used to power discussions on over 400,000 sites around the world. Vanilla brings a fresh and innovative perspective to the crowded discussion forum market by offering true customization and seamless integration with existing solutions. We are fiercely dedicated to [...]
Every year forum-software.org run a contest for the Best Forum Software. This year we have been added to the list of contestants! We need all the support we can get to show the world that “The forum is dead, long live Vanilla“. All you need to do is go to this page, click the box [...]
Over the past few months we have seen more and more WordPress developers and designers integrate with Vanilla Forums. Since we love WordPress so much and use it for our own blog, we’ve decided to release a suite of plugins and widgets to help make it easier for you to integrate with Vanilla on your [...]
We’ve added a ton of new features and fixes to v2.0.17. New Features Vanilla Statistics – Introducing a proper statistics reporting tool that will allow forum administrators to easily get much deeper insights into what is actually going on in their communities from a birds-eye view. More info. Vanilla WordPress Plugins – We have developed [...]
Your Vanilla forum is chock full of useful analytics data that has previously been left untapped. With the release of Vanilla 2.0.17, we are introducing proper statistics reporting that will allow forum administrators to easily get much deeper insights into what is actually going on in their communities from a birds-eye view. Specifically, your forum [...]
Today wikiHow officially launched their new community forums. These new forums will provide a more visually pleasing, more functional place for wikiHowians to mix and mingle. They have also put together a bunch of Vanilla how-tos: How to Manage Threads in Vanilla Forums How to Put a Photo on a Vanilla Forum How to Bookmark [...]
Over the past few months we have pushed the boundaries of Vanilla and released many new and powerful features, and the buzz has been awesome! It was only a few weeks ago that I posted about how Vanilla has helped over 400,000 people start amazing communities! The Vanilla community continues to grow and thrive and [...]
We received an overwhelming number of entries! Congratulations to the 5 lucky winners: @PSizer @josephku @Elegath @Hunterhdolan @mackell Thank you to everyone who entered! Make sure to follow us on twitter and like us on facebook to find out about more Vanilla contests and giveaways.
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
