Vanilla integrates with any platform.
Vanilla is the most customizable and extensible community platform in existence, allowing integrations with any other application in any way you can imagine.
Choose from an wide array of readymade themes, and extend them to look how you wish. You choose your community structure, homepage format, category & discussion layout, and get fine-grained control over the most minute detail of your community's design.
You can embed the entire Vanilla forum into a page on your website with a single line of code.
We knock down the barriers of entry for your users. Choose Vanilla's own login system; social connects like Facebook, Twitter, Google and OpenID; or even your existing login system combined with our single sign-on mechanism.
We've got readymade WordPress widgets that allow you to highlight your community in other parts of your site. We've even got an API that lets you build custom widgets to suit any purpose.
Vanilla's ReSTful API returns JSON or XML encoded data by adding the .json or .xml extension to Vanilla URLs. Our Simple API lets you access Vanilla's write methods. For example, awarding a badge for an achievement on your site or in your game.
Use Vanilla Comments for your blog. Use your blog traffic to capture drive-by blog commenters and bring them into your community. Blog comments are mirrored with matching discussions in the community pointing back at the blog.
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.
