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WordPress
The following is a a guide for Vanilla with our free Wordpress plugin The Vanilla Forums WordPress Plugin First, you’ll need the Vanilla Forums plugin for WordPress. And guess what, it’s free! After downloading the plugin, installation is easy. Just follow these two simple steps: Upload the vanilla-forums folder to…
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Using Google Tag Manager with Vanilla Forums
Requirements Getting started with Google Tag Manager in Vanilla requires the use of the Pockets Plugin. Google Tag Manager Setup Setup Google Tag Manager for webpages, by using the following steps from Google - or watch the video above. Adding Google Tag Manager Code to Vanilla Forums To add the code given to you, you will…
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Setting up Marketo with a Vanilla RSS Feed
This is for setting Marketo up with RSS feeds, which are only available if your community, and the content you want to use, is public. Find the right RSS Feed Every Category in Vanilla has an RSS feed which you can get by adding feed.rss to the end We'll be using open source urls for this example, you should replace each…
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Tracking Vanilla Comments
When someone is looking at Vanilla Comments, the url structure will have #vanilla-comments appended to the URL. Out of the box, Google Analytics will ignore the hashtag, so you will not to be see the differentiator between your content and comment views. To separate them, you will need to modify your Google Analytics code…
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Integrating Vanilla Forums with Slack
There are ways to implement integrations between Vanilla and Slack, HOWEVER, a lot of the easiest ways assume that your forum is publicly accessible such as API calls or RSS feeds. This method relies on email notifications, so you will have to choose what notifications you want to receive (and that will ultimately go to…
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Community Site Search Analytics
Want to get a quick way to see what people search on your community? Use the site search setting within Google Analytics. This will create a report with all the keywords your community members are searching for. To set up search tracking, all you need to do is head to the view settings. Enable site search tracking, then…