Vanilla is a lightweight Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language using the Garden framework. The software is released under the GNU GPL.
Vanilla is a lightweight Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language using the Garden framework. The software is released under the GNU GPL. Vanilla Forums is Free Software , standards-compliant, customizable discussion forums. Vanilla was released on 1 July 2006, and has since undergone many changes; the most notable being the complete rewrite between Vanilla 1 and Vanilla 2, the latter of the two became the primary product and Vanilla 1 was passed into the hands of other developers. Vanilla is designed to bring forums back to their roots, providing core functionality with additional features such as emoticons available as plugins
Features
Vanilla is a free, FOSS, pluggable, themable, multi-lingual community-building product to host a forum on your own server infrastructure. The following items describe the open source version:
- Users can easily set up and maintain a full-featured discussion forum with unlimited categories
- A variety of community made themes and add-ons are available.
- Single-Sign On
- Social Media Login
- Embeddable forums
- Import from other forums
- Commenting System for your site
- Integates with other FOSS projects, like WordPress.