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		<title>Using WishList Member to Set Permissions in a Vanilla Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Forum Traffic with Vanilla Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been getting a lot of very positive feedback about the recent release of our Vanilla Comments feature. So far, the thing that people find most exciting about it is how it leverages all of the expense (time and money) already invested in gaining traction on their blog. For most sites, the blog is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggers, thinking of launching a forum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Building]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Building a successful blog is a lot of hard work, and increasing your traffic is even harder because it requires that you constantly produce more content. You may have considered launching a community forum. A forum can be a great complement to a blog. It engages the readership by giving them somewhere to hang out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use the Vanilla Commenting System with WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Vanilla Comments: Integrate blog comments to supercharge your community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Vanilla?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I often get so buried in what I&#8217;m doing that I forget how important it is to explain why I&#8217;m doing it. Vanilla is a remarkable product that can do amazing things, and I could spend weeks upon weeks explaining all of the bells and whistles in detail, but it probably wouldn&#8217;t convince you that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing Vanilla jsConnect Single-Signon on your Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Forum Migration Best Practices &#8211; 6 ways to prepare</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lizzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Migrating your vBulletin or phpBB forum to Vanilla?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diffuse Community Uproar With Discussion Sinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Community management &#038; moderation is a complex and nebulous subject with very few rock-solid principles to match the shape and size of every community. The constant battle that many community software developers face (and lose) is where to draw the line on feature development for community moderation &#038; administration. I believe that many of the [...]]]></description>
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