Vanilla Forums official documentation

Linc

We're building Vanilla's docs with GitHub Pages + Jekyll + Picnic courtesy of @Kasper's skill & efforts. Now that it's a slick process, five years of product knowledge are leaking out of my head at every available opportunity:

http://vanillaforums.github.io/VanillaDocs/

We are trickling them out as they are available, not waiting for some grand unveiling. We'll have them on a subdomain of vanillaforums.com once they're further along, but that link should continue working.

The docs are under version control, naturally: https://github.com/vanillaforums/VanillaDocs

We'll be branching according to version once we have sufficient content to bother with that. GitHub parses Markdown natively so you can browse the docs via the repo very nicely.

This will replace the "Documentation" section of this site and quite a number of .com blog posts as we move along.

hgtonight

Is there going to be a place for community submissions? I understand the need for separation between .org and .com.

The doc site is a welcome refresh

Linc

@hgtonight said:
Is there going to be a place for community submissions?

Absolutely, it's a GitHub repo, so community submissions for docs can be handled in the same way as code submissions: the almighty pull request. Those less git-inclined can simply open an issue.

chanh

Good effort, it is needed. Thanks

Linc

Newly rewritten docs this weekend.

Migrations: http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/importing/porter/

Plugins: http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/plugins/

Example plugin: https://github.com/vanilla/addons/pull/164

Plugin Quickstart: http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/plugins/quickstart/

Adrian

@linc this is a time where one one reaction limit is not enough! Great work!

x00

Top man!

peregrine

typo.....

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/framework/views/

  $this->User = $UserModel->GetByReference($UserReference);
    $this->Render();
}

Linc

There are a ton of typos. Pull requests welcome.

peregrine

pull request done.