It's a Plugin!

Standard Installation as with all WordPress plugins. From Vanilla Dashboard you download the WordPress Plugin. After unzipping it and uploading it to your WP Plugin Directory, you activate it from within your WP Dashboard. Then you enable the widgets you want from within your Vanilla Dashboard.

Embed Vanilla or Stand-Alone

Embed the forum directly into your blog page or match the blog template in a stand-alone forum for deep-linked SEO. Either way, it all looks like the same site to your users and runs on your domain.

Single-Sign-On

Connect up your member accounts from your blog to your forum automatically with our Vanilla Connect SSO for WordPress. When your members click-through to the forum for the first time, they will be automatically logged in and a forum account created with the same credentials. No fuss, no muss!

Discussions Widget

Allows you to automatically display and refresh most recent forum posts anywhere on your blog.

Activity Widget

Shows a stream of forum member activity anywhere on your blog or forum.

Users Widget

Displays avatars of your most recently active forum community users.

Advanced Theme Customization

Lets you match your current blog theme or go with something completely new, and update/tweek it at anytime. Theme Customization is done right from the dashboard, how you are used to doing it! "I thought you can't do that with a forum?" You thought wrong!

It's Hosted!

One less thing! No need to manage a complex installation, learn how to host, scale, patch, upgrade, or any other mess involved with hosting a new platform. These are not high-value-creation activities for you to master. Instead you get to simply focus at becoming really good at building and growing conversation communities around your content. This is a high-value and repeatable activity that you do want to master. We also provide helpful tips in our knowledge center on how to continually improve at growing your communities.

Monetization Too!

We provide our premium partners with a monetization platform tailored to forums and ready to go, so you don't need to waste hours/days/weeks chasing advertising dollars. You get to focus on, you guessed it, building your conversation community! Focus on what you're good at, we'll do the rest!