Turn drive-by blog commenters into engaged community members.
Great communities start with great content, and you’ve already got that in your blog. Now you can use your blog traffic and blog comments to quickly seed your community.
As new comments are added to a blog post, they are also added to a matching discussion in the community forum. Using Vanilla to power both comments and the forum lets members have one identity, one reputation and one user experience on all sections of the website.
Even if you don't yet have a community forum, using Vanilla for comments allows you to leverage the popularity of your blog into building a community forum from scratch.
We have a plugin available for WordPress that does all of the heavy lifting, but Vanilla’s comments feature is easy to embed into any website, and supports single sign on. It offers the same gamification, reputation and moderation features as found in Vanilla powered communities.
For publishers that want to make the switch from an existing system to Vanilla, a data migration service is offered. Vanilla Comments are available only to VanillaForums.com hosted customers.
More great reasons to use Vanilla:
- Vanilla is designed to help you engage and grow your community.
- Vanilla is super fast and ridiculously easy to use.
- Vanilla makes your forum look like your site.
- Your users curate and reveal the best stuff to your new visitors.
- Gamification and reputation engages and drives user abilities.
- Social integration draws in more users
- Vanilla works on any mobile device.
- Moderators and Administrators get unequaled intuitive controls.
- Turn drive-by blog commenters into engaged community members.
- Vanilla identifies bad people and keeps them out.
- Vanilla integrates with any platform.
- Migrating from any other platform is painless.
- Vanilla keeps users engaged longer, and pulls them back every day.
- Easily generate and track revenue with your community.
- Unequaled user experience.
- Users can post all kinds of really cool stuff.
- Engage the culture of your community with addons.
- Your community is safe with us.
- Powerful community-specific analytics help you track your efforts.
- Awesome support for communities of all shapes and sizes.
