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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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lvez

This is what a Vanilla comment looks like!

apreche

Can I do this if I host my own Vanilla forum?

djensen47

"Vanilla is offering a comment importing service. Please contact us if you would like more information about this."

How do I import my existing comments?

Lori

I would like to add comments to the news section of my website. I have a Vanilla hosted forum with a customized theme. Blog Comments under Forum Settings shows embedding is disabled. When I go to Embed Forum it says the preferred method is to use a customized theme. If I click the enable embedding button will it modify anything in my current forum? Can I use a customized theme and embed comments?

architxt

This is awesome!

But it is available on the freebie self-hosted option?

The hosted option would work perfectly for me but pricing is prohibitive for a 2,000 strong community that doesn't generate much revenue. Would be good to have a more affordable entry point around the $20 mark.

EdelALi

Is it updating automatically for me if anybody else comments somewhere else?

EdelALi

or it does not?!

Lincoln

Hi @djensen47, please email sales@vanillaforums.com so we can figure out what system you're currently using and the best way to get you migrated.

Lincoln

Hi @architxt, it's not yet available on the open source product. If you're looking for additional ways to monetize your community to afford one of our plans, you can contact sales@vanillaforums.com and we can work on that with you.

Lincoln

Hi @Lori, yes you can use the embedded comments without changing your customized theme. Go ahead and get it set up without changing your theme, and start a new discussion on this site if you run into any trouble or need assistance.

sMiles

When i start using it in my rusian speaking blog, i find that when nem comments are posted, all text are using wrong codepage.

Wordpress using UTF-8
Vanilla using UTF-8

For example you can see it in this theme http://bit.ly/J9rSHq

What can i do to solve it?

Lincoln

Howdy @sMiles, if you have an account with us for hosting your forum at vanillaforums.com, please let us know which site it is and start a new discussion so we can help you resolve your issue. If you're using the free, open source version of Vanilla Forums, you can ask the community for assistance here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussions

admin

Can anyone leave a comment as a guest/anonymous without login? Vanilla seems to be lacking this feature?

Lincoln

Vanilla offers many single sign-on extensions (Facebook, Twitter, Google, WordPress, and more) but we don't support anonymous commenting.