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Pre-Moderated Category
The Pre-Moderated Category add-on allows admins to set certain categories to flag all new discussions, comments, or both. This add-on must be enabled by your Vanilla Customer Success Manager. This option can be used when it is anticipated that content in a certain category may be particularly sensitive, or otherwise should…
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Discussions & Comments
Vanilla's user-generated content is organized into Discussions. Replies or follow-ups to those Discussions are called Comments. Each Discussion can have many Comments, or they could have none. Here's a Discussion with just one Comment: Some communities or forums will refer to Discussions differently --- some folks may call…
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Features Overview
Why did we call it Vanilla? We wanted to create software that let you start with something plain and simple and that could be configured to meet your specific needs.
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No Index
No Index is an addon that allows moderators & curators to mark a discussion as noindex/noarchive: This addon must be enabled by your CSM or Vanilla Support. Once enabled, you will see an additional option when you click the Cogwheel on Discussions: Once enabled, you will see an indicator that is has been marked as noindex:…
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Drafts
Out of the box Vanilla Forums saves all of your Discussions, Questions, Ideas, and Comments automatically. You never have to worry about losing your post if you browse away, close your browser, or shut off your device, it will be saved! Vanilla also gives you the ability to manually save your post with the Save Draft…
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Signatures
Signatures are an addon that can be enabled at any plan level: Once enabled, there are a few global signature settings you can edit: Keep in mind that these settings will be the baseline for signatures - you can control some of these more granularly by using our Ranks feature: Users may also choose to hide other users'…
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Addon Master List
Please note that many of these plugins are restricted by plan level, if you are uncertain if you plan includes a certain addon or feature, contact your CSM or Vanilla Support. To have an addon enabled that does not appear in settings / addons, contact your CSM or Vanilla Support. It is always strongly recommended to test…
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Why Vanillicon Avatars Changed
In September 2019, Vanilla changed the URLs of their default avatar addon known as Vanillicons. If you never uploaded a photo for your avatar you may have noticed that it changed to something else all of a sudden. What Did We Change? Previously, vanillicons were generated using an MD5 hash of users' email addresses. This…
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Deleting Discussions and Comments
Overview The ability to delete discussions and/or comments is a permission typically reserved for Admins and Mods. It is controlled with Roles and Permissions, and can be set on a per category level: I deleted a post accidentally! What can I do!? You can restore it from the change log. Please note that items deleted…
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Moving Discussions
In the course of regular forum maintenance, you may need to move posts from one category to another. There are a few ways that you can accomplish this: Using the the Cogwheel On the discussion list as well as on the discussion page itself, you will see a cogwheel with a 'move' option Once you click move, you will see a…