'Must Have' plugins

I am new to Vanilla (I did have a look at V1 a while back but it was not mature enough for my needs - a lot has changed now!) so I'd like to know what are the 'must have' plugins to make a forum really fly.

I already have

• Voting
• QnA
• ButtonBar

... and I have just seen ProfileExtender which if it does what it says on the tin is another one - anything else?

Todd

Here are some other good ones.

• Stop Forum Spam
• Facebook and Twitter are included in core and are great.
• Quotes and Signatures replicate some traditional forum functionality that a lot of people like.
• Sitemaps will help your site get crawled if you have a lot of content.
• Who's Online is quite popular

422

Emocss is ok too :)

Lincoln

MrAnchovy said:

I have just seen ProfileExtender which if it does what it says on the tin is another one

Well if it doesn't be sure to let me know. ;)

My list: ButtonBar, Flagging, Gravatar (with Vanillicons enabled), IndexPhotos, ParticipatedDiscussions, ProfileExtender, Stop Forum Spam, RoleTitle. I also roll my own version of Emotify (different emoticons).

tedel

How do you customize the emoticons in Emotify?

Lincoln

I just created my own version, basically. Edited the code directly to do my own symbol/image replacement pairs.