Daniel Vena has identified a couple little security issues in a couple of the default Vanilla input filtering plugins that allows for some cross-site scripting hacks. He was kind enough to patch a start for some fixes into my Textile formatting extension, so it’s time to make sure everyone is up to date with v0.4. You can download it from my Vanilla Extensions page.

After some hacking and slashing (and knowing eventually it’ll become some sort of necessity for someone) I put together another Vanilla extension. This one lets you choose a Google AdSense ad unit to display in the panel section of your Vanilla-based forum.

Google Ads Extension (v0.1)

There’s a new documentation wiki for people using it (or the Lussumo filebrowser).

If there’s anyone out there who hasn’t tried Vanilla yet, you should. It’s one of the bestest forum apps out there (plus it’s PHP, GPL licensed and totally open-source). I installed a copy for myself and people are welcome to go play with it.

When Mark (yes, I’m going to talk about him like we’re the best of friends or something) put it together he did include an extension to allow people to use Markdown syntax in their posts, but I don’t know Markdown. Sure you can use HTML, but what’s the fun in playing with something like this if you can’t add onto it. So I put together a preliminary hacky version of Textile for it. So, without further ado:

Textile Extension for Vanilla, v0.1 v0.2

Update: Ichigo on the Lussumo community/support forum pointed out a bit of character encoding weirdness which should be cleared up now. (Thanks, Ichigo!)