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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
If you are embedding a forum into your Facebook page, it makes sense to offer Facebook authentication. The steps to getting set-up with this are fairly straightforward but warrant explanation. From your admin dashboard, click on the Authentication tab. Now select Facebook from the ‘Configure an Authenticator’ drop-down menu. Open up a new browser window [...]
If you are looking to add a little pizzazz to your Facebook fan page while tying it back to a site you control, you’ll be interested in how to embed a Vanilla Forum into a page. You can see this live at the Vanilla Forums FB Page Forum. Feel free to sign-up for a member [...]
One of the features of the Vanilla WordPress Forum Plugin is the widgets. These widgets allow you to display an updating feed of activity and discussions on your blog. While this post deals with an explanation of how those work and how you would use them, you can also view a ScreenR video that walks [...]
Vanilla Forums has a plugin for WordPress to help you integrate your WordPress blog with a forum. Why would you do this? Because your readers need to have something to do after reading your great content and comments just aren’t enough. Comments are linear, whereas when you talk to your friends about a great movie, [...]
Our latest release, as of this post date, comes with many new features including a suite of WordPress plugins and widgets to help you better integrate Vanilla Forums with WordPress. In this tutorial I will walk you through the basics steps required to install, enable, and integrate these plugins. What we will cover What’s including [...]
Vanilla Social Connect enables your users to sign into your community with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and OpenID. In this tutorial we will cover how to set up each plugin for your forum. What we will cover Enabling the plugins Facebook Connect Twitter Connect Google Connect & OpenID
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Todd Burry Lead Developer, Co-Founder
Tim Gunter Developer & System Administrator
Lizzie McGlinchey Project Manager
Mark O'Sullivan CPO, Co-Founder, Sandwich Expert
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