| General | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2013-02-09 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2013-02-19 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
LGPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||
| Source Code Repo | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Posts | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|
| Forums | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
one level
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
No
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging | ||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Languages |
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
0
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| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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