Say hello to the new Vanilla Default MEGA theme! We know how much you love the default theme, so we decided to add a few, actually 6 new styles code named: Big City, Lemon Sea, Old Tyme, Poppy, Terminal, Grey, and of course the original Blue, to choose from. I designed these new Vanilla Default [...]
I’m very happy to finally release this MEGA theme that includes 5 colour options. When I was designing Minalla Yellow, which has been available on VanillaForums.com since the re-launch about 2 weeks, I had intended it to be available in Red, Green, Blue, and Grey, but our theme options feature was not ready. Thanks to [...]
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 [...]
Tag Name link 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 body { font-family: Verdana; } See full list of Template Tags
I’m very happy to announce the release of 5 new themes for VanillaForums.com users. If you have been a member for a while then you know how epic this is! I’ve been hard at working designing themes and this is only the beginning of many more to come. I hope to release a handful more [...]
One of many new features added to VanillaForums.com is Custom Theme. The Custom Theme feature allows you to customize the appearance of your forum using HTML and cascading stylesheets (CSS). You can change colors, fonts, backgrounds, banners, and even where elements appear on the page. *This feature is available to Plus and Premium Plan members [...]
This help topic deals with theming. For a full tutorial on theming refer to this tutorial. Template tags are used within your forum to display information dynamically. A template tag is code that instructs Vanilla to “do” or “get” something. For example if you write: {searchbox} The Search box will be displayed. Some template tags [...]
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