Vanilla Forums
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2.8(17 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Vanilla Forums is a WordPress forum plugin with 100 active installations and a 2.8/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 111K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: bbPress.
2.8/517 reviews
100active installs
111K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
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Community Forums Evolved.
At Vanilla, we believe that online communities should be unique, intuitive and engaging. Vanilla allows you to create a customized community that rewards positive participation, automatically curates content and lets members drive moderation.
Vanilla provides hosted and open source community forum software that powers discussion forums on over 500,000 sites. Built for flexibility and integration, Vanilla is the best, most powerful community solution in the world.
Vanilla focuses on easy integration with WordPress, and is the ONLY forum solution to provide a native mobile version for easy browsing and posting from any mobile device.
Vanilla benefits from the power of open-source, with over 10,000 developers contributing t…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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