Vanilla Tutorial/Documental Site

hbf · February 2012

Jongos said: So that means the site usage is mostly from editing and adding contents.

I haven't been able to continue because of some commitments.

will be back..

and the wiki still is linked from only two websites.

@hbf, have you registered the wiki at google for indexing?

yes, it is being indexed and the site map is on a cron job for updates.

I don't think more than about 30% of the site activity was you editing... unless you were logging in from various countries. either way, log-ins from all across the globe stopped when this thread stopped getting new views.

hbf · February 2012

OK... So I let this sink again just to verify the correlation between having this thread (and the links to the site) in plain view and the number of visitors to the wiki. There weren't a lot , but there were at least a handfull (about a dozen) real visits (visits that included travelling beyond the main page) during the day and a half that this thread was on page one.

After it fell off, the traffic fell off as well. In the last 4 days, there has only been ONE actual visit to the site.

It's really disappointing as the amount of work and thought that went in to the content there was quite impressive to me.

I'm going to give this one more go.

I am leaving it up to the Vanilla Community, make your voice heard. If you would like to keep this around as a resource, petition (post in here) to have a permanent link posted on this site.

If I don't see a substantive community desire to keep this running, I'll likely mothball the site, and archive the content next month.

mcu_hq · February 2012

I have found it very useful. It should be incorporated into the main site documentation or at least mentioned there. A great pitfall of Vanilla is documentation.

x00 · February 2012

I think you are begin too hard on yourself, expecting too much too soon.

It can take months for content to disseminate, but genuine content is the way to go.

jspautsch · February 2012

This definitely needs more exposure, I think it deserves to be recognized! If I had a resource like this when I first started working with Vanilla it would've made my job about a million times easier.

This thread should be announced and the Vanilla devs should seriously consider adding links throughout the vanillaforums.org site.

x00 said: I think you are begin too hard on yourself, expecting too much too soon.

It can take months for content to disseminate, but genuine content is the way to go.

And this.

peregrine · February 2012

Thanks for the link and the documentation. Keep up the great work! I look forward to more tutorials and examples as more people contribute to it.

hbf · February 2012

x00 said: I think you are begin too hard on yourself, expecting too much too soon.

It can take months for content to disseminate, but genuine content is the way to go.

im not taking it personally, i just wanted to see what the real interest is in this project. we seem to be getting about 3 hits per day. i didn't look to see if they are multi-page or just dead ends because someone has a browser window pointed to the site.

Either way, as long as it's being used I'll keep it running.

I'm not sure what kind of response the vanillaforums.org staff will have to the request, but I'll suggest a sticky or something to keep this visible.

Anyone with some pull (x00, 422, etc.) if you could weigh in and ask for a sticky or a permalink that would be appreciated as well.

dodgerid · February 2012

Hi, Just so you know, I have not abandoned the idea, just have no internet at the moment, will hopefully get sorted soon..

hbf · February 2012

dodgerid said: Hi, Just so you know, I have not abandoned the idea, just have no internet at the moment, will hopefully get sorted soon..

that is rough. i can't really fathom being without an internet connection.

OnlyAnExcuse · February 2012

Hang on, just little over a month and you guys have set up a wiki and added so much information already? Impressive!

Like OP mentions such wikis are essential to communities built around web software packages and they're always my first port of call for information to learn how to work with them.

I'm new to Vanilla so literally just learning as I go from the ground up and though i've got little experience of the community it would be an ideal thing for Vanilla.org to adopt as a permanent feature of their website - perhaps linked from their documentation?

If it covers the basics and more people can find it easily and more can contribute it will continue to flourish in the manner it has. Once i've got to grips with Vanilla i'd love to be able to add some things myself. I'll learn to walk before I can run though :)

Great work guys!

hbf · February 2012

OnlyAnExcuse said: Hang on, just little over a month and you guys have set up a wiki and added so much information already? Impressive!

Like OP mentions such wikis are essential to communities built around web software packages and they're always my first port of call for information to learn how to work with them.

I'm new to Vanilla so literally just learning as I go from the ground up and though i've got little experience of the community it would be an ideal thing for Vanilla.org to adopt as a permanent feature of their website - perhaps linked from their documentation?

If it covers the basics and more people can find it easily and more can contribute it will continue to flourish in the manner it has. Once i've got to grips with Vanilla i'd love to be able to add some things myself. I'll learn to walk before I can run though :)

Great work guys!

setting it up was easy, @jongos did the heavy lifting.

422 · February 2012

Be nice if @todd could add a link to this somewhere for reference purposes.

Lincoln · March 2012

We've been watching quietly :) I've made this an announcement. If you need official help or have questions, feel free to ping me.

peregrine · March 2012

FWIW, because of your wiki, I learned to do my first plug-in. Thanks much.

wwwwemixin · March 2012

THANKS

hbf · March 2012

What a nice surprise to log in today and see this up at the top.

BTW the wiki is wide open for contribution.. if you learned something new or have any topics you'd like to see covered feel free to add.

Jongos · March 2012

i hope i will be able to continue working on the wiki soon.. :)

thanks to the dev team for making this an announcement!

peregrine · March 2012

If you get the inclination, could you write a tutorial on something like this? how to pass a user created variable or array that is captured in one event and passing to another event. The reason I need to pass variable and/or array is because it gets zeroed out by interim events, so it can not be re-read from any current objects or database.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/19405/question-about-storing-variable-between-events#Item_2

It might aid other people besides me writing plugins.

hbf · March 2012

There is a good thread on this topic. I was planning on capturing that into the wiki soon. I've not had much time to do any wiki work (even my forum has had to continue without much of my interaction). I'll try to do it soon though.

michaelchower · March 2012

keep up the good work.

Perfection · March 2012

Jongos said: You got one vote from me... Hmmmm...

Nv1ncible · April 2012

This is awesome, and is going to be an awesome resource for me. I'm starting a large Wordpress/Vanilla project, and I'm glad to see that there will be another resource for me to use other than Vanilla's documentation.

Keep up the good work!

hbf · April 2012

@Nv1ncible feel free to add anything you learn along the way.

Nv1ncible · April 2012

@hbf, I will! I look forward to being an active part of this community, as I feel like I'll be getting to know Vanilla inside and out over the next few months. :D

peregrine · May 2012

@Underdog - can you append this in the title of the message - so I can just cut and paste.

http://www.homebrewforums.net/vanillawiki/index.php

hbf · May 2012

peregrine said: @Underdog - can you append this in the title of the message - so I can just cut and paste.

http://www.homebrewforums.net/vanillawiki/index.php

dont use that link... use http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net

hbf · May 2012

i'm going to retire that subfolder address.

peregrine · May 2012

OK :)

@underdog - don't add http://www.homebrewforums.net/vanillawiki/index.php to the title of the discussions so I can cut and paste.

newly added @iunderdog please add http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net to the title of this discussion, so I can cut and paste and if you can add a link on this docuentation page -http://vanillaforums.org/docs that points to http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net

that would be cool to

UnderDog · May 2012

peregrine said: newly added @iunderdog please add http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net to the title of this discussion, so I can cut and paste

I don't understand what you need with an url in the title of the page? There's a link to the exact same address in my signature...

and if you can add a link on this docuentation page -http://vanillaforums.org/docs that points to http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net

I cannot edit the /docs site, so can't do that. Let's just create an awesome documentation site first, before we link from the actual /docs site to the awesome documentation site, ok :-)

peregrine · May 2012

thx. You have to comment more frequently - so I can click on your signature! you're signature is not at the top of the page as is the announcement. Just seemed like an easy thing to do.

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