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Vanilla
Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free! Upgrade instructions are available here: ...
- Vanilla 1
- Approved
- Type Application
- Author Mark
- Downloads 31,799
- Comments 1
- Updated November 2009
FCKeditor
FCKeditor is a popular WYSIWYG toolbar for your comment forms and posts. Includes Source editing, smileys and Youtube/Google/Soapbox/Vimeo/Revver/Dailymotion/VideoJug/MetaCafe video embedding Not compatible with Safari. You can enable other formatters (not tinymce or dojo editor) before ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author MySchizoBuddy
- Downloads 16,384
- Comments 239
- Updated May 2007
Forum Statistics
This extension will place a small tab in the panel on the index page that shows some statistics about the forum. These statistics are able to be enabled and disabled at an admin's discression. If you still obtain versions from 0.2.5 - 0.2.7 from before 10/06/06, please update now because an ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Vincent
- Downloads 14,549
- Comments 118
- Updated April 2008
Attachments
The new and improved Attachments extension - Uses SQL Table to store attachment information - Faster and more stable - Fully extendible *NEW* You can import your old attachments (for all versions Attachments 1.x) This is the core package. *** Addons for this extension*** - Inline ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author SubJunk
- Downloads 14,324
- Comments 183
- Updated January 2007
Account Pictures
This extension will allow your users to upload their icon and picture and store it on your server. You'll have to create an upload directory and make it writeable. Also, the files which will get uploaded should have writing permissions. You can change the icon and picture sizes on the ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Jazzman
- Downloads 13,785
- Comments 143
- Updated August 2007
Html Formatter
Allows users to use HTML to format their comments while stripping out potentially dangerous javascript.
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author SirNot
- Downloads 12,707
- Comments 109
- Updated January 2008
Who's Online
This extension will add a â€œWhoâ€™s Onlineâ€? Menu option to the control panel, allowing users to see when other users are signed in and active on the boards. Please note that this extension adds a few more database queries and updates, so this could potentially degrade the performance ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author dknowles
- Downloads 11,633
- Comments 116
- Updated March 2007
Friendly Urls
This is an add-on that allows you to make your Vanilla installation use search-engine-friendly urls rather than the standard ?Discussion=111 type of querystrings. It requires Apache and mod_rewrite on your server. Be sure to read the readme.txt file for install instructions. The July 1st ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Mark
- Downloads 10,802
- Comments 79
- Updated February 2007
Poll
Add a poll to your Vanilla forum NOTE: You have to turn on Poll Management by going to your Roles & Permission section. Version 1.3 - 06.09.2006, Jazzman - Non discussion Polls won't show a notification anymore - You can now remove a single poll you don't want to vote on ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Jazzman
- Downloads 10,250
- Comments 51
- Updated September 2006
Blogger
Fresh, elegant, clean, lightweight, simple and a blog like Vanilla theme! It attempts to bring out the importance in your forum's content while looking as sleek as possible. Tested and looks good in: FF 2.0.0.7 IE 7 Safari 3.0 Version History: 1.5 - Updated for Vanilla 1.1.5a 1.4 - ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Theme
- Author sjeeps
- Downloads 10,147
- Comments 69
- Updated November 2009
Vanilla Blue Theme
A new Vanilla Theme! Based on punBB, inspired by Shawn's Mint forum with a new style in a Vanilla color scheme! Vanilla Blue is a work in progress!! NOTE: Please do not use in a production environment! I'm still working on extensions to work with this theme! Disable all extensions ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Theme
- Author Jazzman
- Downloads 10,108
- Comments 3
- Updated July 2006
Page Manager
This addon will allow administrators to add, edit and remove pages/tabs, their order, and who can view them (tabs and custom pages). Please note that default.php must be able to write and read to its own folder. If you are using mod_rewrite in your vanilla installation, add these lines to your ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author SirNot
- Downloads 10,031
- Comments 146
- Updated December 2007
Digg
Another elegant, blog like Vanilla theme! And another attempt to bring in a fresh, appealing and a scannable design to the boring traditional forum look. Tested and looks good in: FF 2.0.0.7 IE 7 Safari 3.0 Version History: 1.2 - Update for menu.php to work with Vanilla ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Theme
- Author sjeeps
- Downloads 9,699
- Comments 37
- Updated November 2009
VaneaBlack
a clear, black and gray style for Vanilla 1.0.1 Latest version modify: - fix some bugs view large screenshot: Discussions: http://static.flickr.com/88/260410917_847fcee2bd_o.jpg (2006/10/4 updated) Settings Page: http://static.flickr.com/99/254723549_dff45ae76f_o.png
- Vanilla 1
- Type Style
- Author Camie
- Downloads 9,242
- Comments 16
- Updated October 2006
Guest Welcome Message
Adds a welcome message to the panel if the person viewing the forum isn't signed in.
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Mark
- Downloads 9,214
- Comments 28
- Updated March 2007
Quotations
This extension adds a "quote" button to the upper right corner of each comment. When clicked on, javascript transfers the contents of that post to the comment field at the bottom of the page. The extension also includes a stylesheet that styles the blockquote and cite elements inside a ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Bergamot
- Downloads 8,784
- Comments 42
- Updated August 2006
Tinymce
Add Tinymce WYSIWYG editor to your comment forms and posts Disabled for Safari Support this extension
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author MySchizoBuddy
- Downloads 8,755
- Comments 91
- Updated April 2007
The Beautiful Lie
This theme is based on the design I created for my Vanilla blog hack, TheBeautifulLie.com. The theme turns Vanilla into sort of a collaborative blog. It seemed like there was a lot of interest in it, so I created an official theme for it.
- Vanilla 1
- Type Theme
- Author clofresh
- Downloads 8,734
- Comments 5
- Updated October 2006
Vanillacons
Vanillacons allows the user to add smilies to his post. You can upload unlimited smilies which are categorized in directories. Use the settings tab to rebuild any additional smilies into the javascript and TextFormatter. (54 smilies included) The files "smilies.js" and ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author Jazzman
- Downloads 8,467
- Comments 35
- Updated March 2007
Preview Post
Creates a button next to the 'Add your Comments' one which provides an AJAX-driven preview of the post in the desired format. The preview is made to look like a new comment, much like an AJAX-ified version of yay-hooray's preview system. This is an updated version of what the ...
- Vanilla 1
- Type Plugin
- Author SirNot
- Downloads 8,377
- Comments 66
- Updated November 2007

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