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Welcome to Vanilla Community Wiki Project

This wiki is organized by members of community of Vanilla Forums with objective of providing documentation and peer-to-peer tutorials in extending and customizing the wonderful Vanilla forum software. There are many articles covering all aspects of using Vanilla. Whether you are a webmaster looking for help on installation or configuration, a designer creating a fully featured theme, or even a developer looking to write applications on the Garden framework, you are sure to find something useful!

If you are completely new to Vanilla, be sure to check out our getting started and quick-start guides. An old hat at software development? Check out our documentation for an overview of how things are done in Vanilla. Somewhere in the middle? Dive right in to a random page and see where is takes you!

Find something lacking? You are encouraged to participate and contribute to this documentation effort. If you get stuck, feel free to ask questions on the community supported Vanilla forums. Please share your expertise with us! Even creating links to pages you think would be interesting will help.

Vanilla for Webmasters

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Download
  • Installing Vanilla
  • Upgrade
  • Importing Another Forum Into Vanilla 2
  • Updates
• Features & Addons
  • What are Features and Addons?
  • Plugins
  • Locales
• Configuration
  • Basic Configuration
  • Config File
  • Dashboard
  • Advanced Configuration Settings
  • What to do if I get a Bonk Error?

Full listing of Webmaster articles

Vanilla for Developers

• Quick Start Guides
  • Beginning Development
  • Plugins vs Applications vs Modules
  • Writing Applications
  • Writing Plugins for Vanilla
  • Writing Modules for Vanilla
  • The Github Branch Model
  • Hello World Plugin
  • Hello World Application
  • Adding Some JQuery to a Plugin
  • How to add a signature to a user profile
• Documentation
  • A Quick-Start Guide to Writing Plugins
  • Creating Addons for the Addon Site
  • Github Access
  • Vanilla API
  • Folder Structure
  • Controllers & Urls
  • Models, Forms & Validation
  • Views
  • Modules
  • Database & Query Building
  • Database Objects
  • Ajax
  • Internationalization & Localization
  • Converting Old Language Definitions to Locale Packs
  • Syndication
  • How Searching Works in Vanilla
  • Inform User Notifications

Full listing of Developer articles

Vanilla for Designers

• Themes
  • A Quick-Start Guide to Creating Themes
  • Custom Themes 1
  • Custom Themes 2
  • Using Smarty with Vanilla

Full listing of Designer articles