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Awards Plugin for Vanilla Forums is now available!

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You can buy it from Awards Plugin page.

The Awards (Badges) Plugin for Vanilla Forums is now available. RC1 phase has been completed, and the plugin is available for use on  your Production websites. Great care has been taken in testing it in multiple environments and configurations, and you can finally introduce Badges to your Community based on self-hosted Vanilla Forums.

As usual, plugin comes with professional support and a full year of free upgrades. To celebrate the release, plugin is now on sale for a limited time. Grab your licence before the special offer expires!

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0 is available!

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A new plugin is now available for purchase: Currency Switcher for WooCommerce 1.6/2.0. This extension will allow you to display your product prices and accept payments in multiple currencies. That is, unlike existing extensions, the price conversion is not purely informational, but it’s used to complete the orders. Read more

Awards/Badges for Vanilla Forums (RC1) is available!

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You can buy it from Awards Plugin page.

It took longer than I thought, but the Badges/Awards Plugin for Vanilla Forums 2.0 is now in RC1 stage. This means that Beta testing phase was completed for the existing features, and the plugin is now ready. Latest version includes many bug fixes, an improved User Interface and the ability of exporting and importing Awards and related data with just a few clicks. Also, plugin comes with a set of pre-configured Awards and Classes, to help you getting started with your Community. To view a full list of plugin’s current and upcoming features, please visit the Awards Plugin page in the shop.

More good news: Release Discount!

To celebrate this important release, you can avail of 10% discount on the regular price by using the coupon code awds-10-0513. The code is valid for the first ten orders of the plugin, and it expires on the 15/05/2013, so make sure you get your licence quickly!

Some screenshots

As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words, so here are some screenshots from latest version, showing some of plugin’s great features. The target was to make something that looked great and worked great, and I think we got it!

Awards/Badges for Vanilla Forums (Preview Release) has been released!

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Kind of a late update, as the Preview Release was distributed on 07/04/2013 to the Users who registered their interest in becoming early adopters. Just a couple of days passed, and I already received tons of valuable feedback from them. The response, so far, has been enthusiastic, and I’m working to make the Awards Plugin even better.

What’s next?

Next release will be ready soon, with several bug fixes and new features, one of which will be the ability of importing and exporting Awards/Badges and Award Classes in a couple of clicks. This will introduce the possibility of creating Awards sets that can be shared with other Vanilla Forums owners.

Also, the Awards plugin is just the first step in the creation of a complete Reputation Management System for Vanilla Forums, which will include highly sought after features, such as Reactions and Ranks (currently in development).

The date of the Preview Release 2 will be announced soon, so keep an eye on our site!

Vanilla Badges Plugin – New preview images

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As we are getting closer to the pre-release, I finally have some time to adjust the look and feel of the (many) User Interfaces of the plugin. I took a couple more screenshots and added them to the gallery in the original announcement. Feel free to have a look, any feedback is welcome!

Badges Plugin for Vanilla Forums is coming!

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Vanilla Awards Announcemente PostIt took a lot of time and effort, but the first version of the Badges/Awards Plugin for Vanilla Forums 2.0 is coming out soon! This plugin was developed following the requests and feedback of several Users, and it has be named Awards to avoid confusion with the free Badges plugin released recently.

Based on current schedule, the Preview Release should be available by 29/03/2013.

Some of the features

Here are some of the features that this first version will include:

  • Fully customisable set of Rules.
  • Support for virtually unlimited Badges, each with its own image.
  • Support for virtually unlimited Badge Categories, each with its own image and CSS style (for advanced Users).
  • Ranking Points (to be used with Ranking Plugin, in development).
  • Tracking and notification of awarded Badges.
  • Convenient Admin interface.
  • Badges Widget, to show everybody your achievements.

New features are being added as you read, so stay tuned for the big day! 🙂

Sneak peek

Here are two screenshots of the plugin in its current status. Just a bit more polishing, and it will be ready to go!

Preview Release

Initially, a Preview Release of the plugin will provided at a discounted price to a few selected Users who agreed to become early adopters, and who are aware that, due to the plugin complexity, there may be some minor issues still to be solved.

If you would like to be considered for the pilot, please register your interest using the Contact page.

Thanks for your patience, and see you soon on release day!

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