Most wanted addons for Vanilla 2

JayS · July 2010

a plugin or theme to pull the header and footer from a Wordpress theme. One step closer to adding Vanilla to an existing Wordpress site for those of us who suck at writing code

Desmanthus · August 2010

Inline images
Attachments
Blogthis
Nuggets
Pages

Need these three working with an V2 imported V1 forum

Any of these being worked on / coming soon?

adriansonline · September 2010

I would love a working/easy markitup editor for BBCode, and a way for us to give badges/recognize users for contributions--maybe even a point/karma system. These would be awesome.

Raize · September 2010

Why didn't you make a new thread?

Chat_101_com · October 2010

Please consider the following plugins as they could revolutionize the whole vanilla forum script:

1) Top Posters: A sidebar plugin showing the top 5, 10 or whatever posters and the number of posts for each.
2) Email users: An admin plugin allowing the forum admin to email all users.
3) Contact us: A contact us form for members or visitors to contact the forum admin via email without having to register or login.
4) Discussion Thumbnail: A thumbnail image to appear on the left side of each discussion title on the forum frontpage. Admin and users should be given the option to upload their own thumbnail image, and if they don't a standard thumbnail appears.
5) Poll: A sidebar poll would surely make a difference.

Thank you for a wonderful script!

crysfel · December 2010

I'd like a plugin that allow an admin to give badges to the users.

For example, I'd like to run a competition on my community, maybe developing a small application or widget, I'd like to give a badge to the winner and show the badge in every post of the user and in the profile page of the user.

What do you think about this? is it complicated? I'm new at vanilla forums but if someone orient me on how to do this I can do it.

Best regards

Mark · January 2011

@crysfel - I've actually got a call with the folks at Badgeville to see what kind of integration we can get going.

Aolee · January 2011

Please consider the following plugins as they could revolutionize the whole vanilla forum script:

1) Top Posters: A sidebar plugin showing the top 5, 10 or whatever posters and the number of posts for each.
2) Email users: An admin plugin allowing the forum admin to email all users.
3) Contact us: A contact us form for members or visitors to contact the forum admin via email without having to register or login.
4) Discussion Thumbnail: A thumbnail image to appear on the left side of each discussion title on the forum frontpage. Admin and users should be given the option to upload their own thumbnail image, and if they don't a standard thumbnail appears.
5) Poll: A sidebar poll would surely make a difference.

Thank you for a wonderful script!

these are definitely cool plugins.

I was able to do item 4) but I manually edited something on the views page, which i know is not good practice. check => www.pinoyau.info

Im trying to work on the item 1) top posters during my free time.

yu_tang · January 2011

I was able to do item 4) but I manually edited something on the views page, which i know is not good practice. check => www.pinoyau.info

Woo, it's very impressive.
You've done a good job.

oliverraduner · January 2011

@Aolee Indeed a nice job with the Discussion picture - can you share how you achieved it? (Probably in a separate Discussion :))

Aolee · January 2011

@Aolee Indeed a nice job with the Discussion picture - can you share how you achieved it? (Probably in a separate Discussion :))

Hi Oliver here's the guide on how i did the thumbnails to appear on FrontPage for each discussion title => http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/14484/discussion-thumbnail-in-frontpage-guide

SpencerMc · January 2011

This may be more a theme issue than an addon, but I'd really like each category in the side bar and on the All Categories page to display the number of discussions with unread posts in them next to where it currently displays the total number of discussions.

djensen47 · January 2011

@Mark regarding Badgeville, my understanding is that is a pay service. I'm not sure if it is affordable for small forum owners. But let us know what you find. I'm really excited about installing Vanilla forums on www.axisandallies.org but I need some sort of badges for the "contributor" users.

Aolee · February 2011

Please consider the following plugins as they could revolutionize the whole vanilla forum script:

1) Top Posters: A sidebar plugin showing the top 5, 10 or whatever posters and the number of posts for each.
2) Email users: An admin plugin allowing the forum admin to email all users.
3) Contact us: A contact us form for members or visitors to contact the forum admin via email without having to register or login.
4) Discussion Thumbnail: A thumbnail image to appear on the left side of each discussion title on the forum frontpage. Admin and users should be given the option to upload their own thumbnail image, and if they don't a standard thumbnail appears.
5) Poll: A sidebar poll would surely make a difference.

Thank you for a wonderful script!
these are definitely cool plugins.

I was able to do item 4) but I manually edited something on the views page, which i know is not good practice. check => www.pinoyau.info

Im trying to work on the item 1) top posters during my free time.

hi guys,

here's the plugin for the Top posters. haven't tested it throughly, but should work fine.

thanks

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/topposters-plugin-1.0

CharlesH · February 2011

On the members profile page, have a "my stuff" link where other members can view pictures, video, and audio complete with viewer commenting. If you want to get really fancy, have the media files converted to flash and give each member a quota so your server doesn't turn into a file sharing service.

Pixelnated · February 2011

A few that keep popping up in my mind -
* I would like each Discussion & Comment to log the IP address of the person that posted it.

* I would like the most recent IP address of a user captured at login

* better user management (thus the first two) and some options to ban by IP or at least be able to do some data mining. Comes in handy when you have some jack... joker posting from multiple accounts.

* Extended Who's online that includes Guests & Bots -Possibly even showing the page they are currently viewing

* A auto feed manager, at least for the main feed, to switch it with another provider like feedburner.

* last.fm field on the members profile page that pulls a top or last listened chart for the user

Thanks! :)

Pixelnated · February 2011

Better Spam control.
Add custom registration fields that are required and require a specific answer "Are you a human?" or "What color is a Banana?" or "What is 3 + 6 + 1"
Nothing is going to be 100% but slowing it down is a good thing!

Just fresh on my mind as I have had 30 spam accts register today :(

Lincoln · March 2011

@Pixelnated Look at the IPTracking plugin. Also, I have better luck using the "Application" registration method for now.

Hearty · March 2011

I'd like to see few add-ons/improvements:

1. Let user create their own "views" using tags (it may also be called "save searches")
For example:
When I login, I want to see discussions that have "Unix" tag AND "Apache" tag.
or "Unix" OR "Apache" tag
Allow me to save this as a view. So, when I login, and I click on "view unix and apache discussions". It shows me all discussions with those tags regardless of what category they are in.

2a. show tags in discussion summary.
When I login, I see each discussion is marked with category name. And it also has a mark "NEW" (in yellow highlight) sometimes. It'd be nice to have "tags" show up too. Right now, I have to click and open a discussion to see all tags that are marked on it.

2b. allow special status-tags (status indicators). So, for example, I'd like to create some special tags like:
"In-Progress"
"Resolved"
"Research-phase"
let me mark a discussion with one of those status-tags, and then in the summary view, I'd be able to see what discussions have what status. Also, allow me to "search" and "filter" my view based on these status-tags.
Based on status, you can also display some special icon, color-code etc. to easily mark a discussion message.

3. Privacy options
-> Option to disable registration link altogether. I manually add user to my forum. I don't want to have a "signup" page at all.
-> hide some categories/tags/discussions from certain groups of users. When these users login, they won't even see these hidden categories/tags/discussions.
(allow admin to move all discussions in a category, all discussions with some tag etc. to regular public board)

4. Native support for
-> privatize forum (so you must login to see anything at all, even if you've permalink, you are forced to login). Bots disabled too.
->temporarily close forum (like put it in maintain-nce mode)

5. When creating a new discussion, show option to
-> multiple file upload (allow admin to set size limit on file uploads, set limits on file extensions etc.)
-> embed media (photo, video, url etc.) in post. Appropriate resizing will be required so there is no horizontal scroll bar.

-> when you create a discussion, there is a textbar for tags.
Below that textbar, show list of frequently-used-tags along with checkboxes. Maybe you can display 2-3 rows with 5-6 tags (and checkboxes) in each row.
So, when I am posting a new discussion, instead of typing a tag name, I can just see what most frequently used tags are and simply check the tags I want. If I want a tag that's not frequently used, I always option to type up those tags.

tester13 · March 2011

Many of your points are already implemented.

Hearty · March 2011

Which ones are implemented?

I see tagging is there but it isn't as extensive as I described.

Embedding media -- there is a plugin Magic but it's not an approved add-on and it seems to have bugs.

By the way, this discussion-forum sorts all posts by 'votes'. Is it possible to set default sort order to "by date"?

TiGR · March 2011

4. this is called private community, this feature is there out of box. Simple way to enable it is this: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/privatecommunity-plugin

NahitTurhaN · March 2011

I am looking for "Pick as best answer" plugin as in superuser.com...

Carlo_13 · March 2011

I think "akismet" http://akismet.com/.

I have got some registered users (very suspicious), with weird email address.

thisisxbox · March 2011

I have managed to change my forums over at thisisxbox.com from PHPBB3 to Vanilla in next to no time at all, and super impressed with the simplicity of use - and that it's easier to embed the forum into my own site rather than PHPBB look like a complete separate site to the news.. anyway I shalln't go on with how pleased I am with Vanilla 2 - but my most wanted plugin would be an Xbox LIVE Gamertag option.

Something that would ask for the members Xbox Live Gamertag in the Edit My Account page, and would then show their gamertag within an iframe from gamercard.xbox.com/[variable].card on the profile page.

MedellinStyle · May 2011

COMMENT SOMETHING, POST ON FACEBOOK COMMENT AUTOMATICLY THEOUGHT CONNECT. BASIC !

carlokok · May 2011

* a way to have RSS (securely) working for private categories (tokens?)
* A working api for both posting and reading

ntuyelik · May 2011

yep select as best answer + feeddiscussions (with category option & number of feeds limitation)

* a way to have RSS (securely) working for private categories (tokens?)
* A working api for both posting and reading

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