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by VanillaForums 2.8 (17 reviews)

Vanilla Forums

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Vanilla Forums ranks #15,654 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #1,766 of 8,848 in the Customization category, a 2.8/5 rating from 17 reviews, and was last updated Jul 3, 2020. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 5.3 (Current: 7.1.4)
vtrunk Current Version vtrunk
Updated 6 years ago Last Update on 03 Jul, 2020
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#1,766 of 8,848 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Active Installs
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KW Avg Position
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Downloads
111.7K
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Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
56%
Review 2.8 out of 5
2.8 (17 reviews)

Next Milestone 200

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Reviews & Ratings

2.8
17 reviews
Overall 56%
5
4 (24%)
4
3 (18%)
3
3 (18%)
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Vanilla Forums. Checked 3 months ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who use Vanilla Forums to run a community discussion forum. It integrates a Vanilla forum with a WordPress blog, replacing native blog comments and letting the forum be managed and displayed from within WordPress.

  • Embed forum in blog
  • Blog comments replacement
  • Forum widgets for blog
  • Recent discussions widget
  • Discussion categories widget
  • Recent forum activity widget
  • Manage forum from WordPress dashboard
  • Mirrors blog posts and comments

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Vanilla Forums

Vanilla is forum software that powers discussions on over 400,000 sites around the world. Vanilla is the best solution for starting and growing your community, offering groundbreaking user interface that makes sense to your users. Q. How do I install the Vanilla Forums WordPress Plugin To install the Plugin you must get it from your Vanilla forum's Embed Vanilla page. If you are not a Vanilla Forum owner already, you can create one here.
A single profile, reputation and user experience across the community and the comments. Engage commenters with Vanilla’s existing gamification and curation features. Use blog traffic to quickly seed community participation and vice versa.
Embedding Vanilla Comments into your blog will insert a comment window at the bottom of each article. If the reader is not signed in, they will be prompted to do so using the Vanilla login form as you've configured it (SSO, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and OpenID options available). The comments are displayed below the article and simultaneously a new discussion thread is created in the forum. Hosted customer also have the option of Disqus sign-in integration.
Vanilla is offering a comment importing service. Please contact us if you would like more information about this. It is on our roadmap to release tools to automate comment imports. We can also help you set up your blog so that existing comments remain in the old system and only new comments get created with Vanilla.
Vanilla provides an integrated comment and forum community that will increase your readership engagement. We understand how to reward positive behaviour, get people to participate in a community and help the community drive moderation and curation. Vanilla now brings all that to your comments. We don’t have all the features that stand alone commenting systems have but we are working on many that we see as important such as pre-moderation, integration into blogging software dashboards and automated imports of legacy comments.
Yes, you can use this with your self-hosted Vanilla Forums install.
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