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Vanilla Spring 2013 Release

VanillaBot — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:29:34 +0000

Vanilla Spring 2013 Release

With only a few days left in Spring, it's time to announce our Spring 2013 Release. These are new features added to our SaaS product offered on VanillaForums.com. To see what's new in our open source product, head over to the open source ...

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Moderating those sometimes horrible blog comments

VanillaBot — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:03:40 +0000

Moderating those sometimes horrible blog comments

Over the last few years, comment systems have become ubiquitous across all web content. Indeed, in many places the humble forum has been pushed out in favour of it’s more exciting and accessible cousin. There’s even one at the bottom of this article. ...

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9 Ways to Eliminate Spam in Your Community Forum

VanillaBot — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:33:26 +0000

9 Ways to Eliminate Spam in Your Community Forum

Spam is the scourge of the internet and can do significant damage to your community if it is left unchecked. There are two kinds of spammers to worry about: spambots and human spammers. Bots are unintelligent software programs that automate the posting ...

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How to Deal with Sock Puppet and Alternate Accounts

VanillaBot — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:36:43 +0000

How to Deal with Sock Puppet and Alternate Accounts

In my last article I wrote about some of the more common user problems you’ll face as a community manager, both from the deliberate antagonism of “trolls” and from socially incompetent users inadvertently stirring up your regulars. The next few articles ...

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Registration Options for Your Vanilla Forum

VanillaBot — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:17:30 +0000

Registration Options for Your Vanilla Forum

The success of your community depends on visitors to the site registering and becoming members. For most communities, the more members the better. Others will want to control who and how members register. Vanilla’s forum software provides several ...

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Implementing Vanilla jsConnect Single-Signon on your Site

VanillaBot — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:33:34 +0000

Implementing Vanilla jsConnect Single-Signon on your Site

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. How does jsConnect work? In order for jsConnect to ...

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Creating a Q&A Community with Vanilla

VanillaBot — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:36:39 +0000

Creating a Q&A Community with Vanilla

If the objective of your community is to enable social customer support, then setting up Q&A in Vanilla is a must. Here's an overview of Vanilla's Q&A feature. Allow users to create a question-type discussion. Questions are tagged in the ...

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Vanilla Forums Blog » Introducing Vanilla Comments: Integrate blog comments to supercharge you

VanillaBot — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:13:16 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » Introducing Vanilla Comments: Integrate blog comments to supercharge your community

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).

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Vanilla Affiliate Program

VanillaBot — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:32:18 +0000

Vanilla Affiliate Program

We have now re-launched our affiliate program and are busy adding to both the content and relationship management programs. It provides on-going referral commissions to successful affiliates and is simple to set-up and promote. To get started, you ca ...

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Vanilla Forums Blog » Introducing Vanilla Reactions and Badges

VanillaBot — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:28:34 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » Introducing Vanilla Reactions and Badges

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 or our member-driven reputation and recommendation engine, which helps you build an engaged and positive community.

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May Release: Introducing Polls!

VanillaBot — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:21:42 +0000

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A Knowledge Base Is Not a Community. A Community Is a Better Knowledge Base.

VanillaBot — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:23:55 +0000

A Knowledge Base Is Not a Community. A Community Is a Better Knowledge Base.

There is a growing trend amongst a variety of very different companies to launch communities in an effort to reduce customer support costs. Essentially, they are looking to outsource some of the support burden to their own customers. Community-based s ...

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Vanilla Forums Blog » The Powerful Weakness of Facebook

VanillaBot — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » The Powerful Weakness of Facebook

At Vanilla, we spend a lot of time thinking about how communities grow and evolve. It’s something that we try to help our customers with every day, and we are constantly looking to competitors of all sizes to see what works and what doesn’t. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot of the side effects of what makes a community grow.

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Vanilla Forums Blog » Embedding A Vanilla Forum On A Facebook Page

VanillaBot — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:12:30 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » Embedding A Vanilla Forum On A Facebook Page

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 account on that forum and play around.

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Howdy, Stranger!

VanillaBot — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:39:19 +0000

Howdy, Stranger!

One of the most common questions we get on the community forums is how can I change the "Howdy Stranger" text on my forum? While we don't have complete translations available for Vanilla 2 yet (there are many non-native-English speaking community memb ...

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Vanilla Forums Blog » WordPress Forum Plugin – Discussion, Activity and User Widgets

VanillaBot — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:51:36 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » WordPress Forum Plugin – Discussion, Activity and User Widgets

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 you through how to set-up the Discussion, Activity and User widgets of the Vanilla WordPress For…

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July Release: Warning System, Ranks, API and Public Reactions

VanillaBot — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:59:32 +0000

July Release: Warning System, Ranks, API and Public Reactions

The hot summer we've been having hasn't stopped our dev team from cranking out a mid-summer release. In our July release we've introduced a new moderation tool called Warnings, a Ranking system tied to a community member's reputation, we've made some c ...

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Vanilla Forums Blog » How to use Custom Theme – Part 1: Edit Html

VanillaBot — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:43:15 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » How to use Custom Theme – Part 1: Edit Html

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.

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What's so great about Hosted Vanilla?

VanillaBot — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:16:53 +0000

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How to integrate Vanilla WordPress plugins and widgets

VanillaBot — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:01:43 +0000

How to integrate Vanilla WordPress plugins and widgets

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 ...

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How to use the Vanilla Commenting System with WordPress

VanillaBot — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:10:47 +0000

How to use the Vanilla Commenting System with WordPress

This p ...

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Come and Meet Us at these Events

VanillaBot — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:12:09 +0000

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Using WishList Member to Set Permissions in a Vanilla Forum

VanillaBot — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:01:52 +0000

Using WishList Member to Set Permissions in a Vanilla Forum

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 Vanill ...

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Smarty vs PHP

VanillaBot — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:58:45 +0000

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Vanilla Forums Blog » How to add Facebook, Twitter, Google, and OpenID to your Community

VanillaBot — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:43:20 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » How to add Facebook, Twitter, Google, and OpenID to your Community

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.

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Vanilla Forums Blog » Setting Up Facebook Login and New Account Registration for Your Forum

VanillaBot — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:46:06 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » Setting Up Facebook Login and New Account Registration for Your Forum

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.

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Vanilla Forums Blog » Growing Your Online Community – 6 Starting Points

VanillaBot — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:58:46 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » Growing Your Online Community – 6 Starting Points

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.

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Vanilla Forums Blog » Lead with Vision

VanillaBot — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:31:38 +0000

Vanilla Forums Blog » Lead with Vision

Meet Joe Guy. Joe is 18 years old, and he loves the “Maine Coon” breed of cats (Who could blame him? They’re amazing animals). He goes on the web looking for people who share his interest, and eventually he meets a bunch of friends in various places who all own and love Maine Coons. Joe decides to start a discussion forum about Maine Coons, and all of his new friends join.

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Create a unique icon with Vanillicon.com

VanillaBot — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:46:37 +0000

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Conference Pass To Blogworld LA available for Vanilla Blog readers

VanillaBot — Wed, 30 May 2012 07:34:48 +0000

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