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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    Jay MoonahJ

    One of the first important things to do after setting up NodeBB is to set up an emailer plugin. While NodeBB does include a local emailer, if your forum is particularly active we recommend using an third-party emailer such as SendGrid which provides better deliverability for sites that send a high volume of email. Setting up SendGrid in NodeBB is very easy.

    Open the administrative dashboard using the 'gear' icon on your forum. Open the Extend > Plugins menu, and select the Find Plugins tab. Use the search on the right. Type 'SendGrid' and the plugin should appear -- select Install when you see it. From Installed tab on the Plugins menu, search again for 'SendGrid' and select Activate. Activating the plugin will require a restart of your forum. To restart, select the Dashboard menu and press the Restart button to the right. After NodeBB restarts, the SendGrid plugin will be active.

    After you restart, there should be a item called Emailer (SendGrid) under the Plugins menu -- if you don't see this right away, try refreshing your browser.

    Sign up to SendGrid

    Go to the SendGrid website, open the pricing page and scroll to the bottom. Click on the link and create your free account. Once you've confirmed your SendGrid account via email, you should be able to login to the SendGrid website. On the left side of your SendGrid dashboard, open Settings and click on API Keys. Click the button in the top right to create a new key. Make sure that the key has Full Access for Send Mail and Alerts.  When you are done, the new key to your clipboard.

    Now, return to the SendGrid menu on your NodeBB admin panel. Paste the API key into the field, and save your changes. Now go back to the Dashboard to restart your forum one more time.

    SendGrid should now be working for your forum.

    YouTube Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB

  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    barisB

    Quick start plugin has an example on how to add a new api route https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-quickstart/blob/master/library.js#L40-L76.

    The hooks that are fired client side are for client side code in plugins. If you want to pass data from the client to the server you have two options.

    Create an api route like in quick start plugin Create a new socket event listener on the server side and use socket.emit() client side. Example here
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    eeeeeE

    I think you answered my point, by agreeing there are issues.
    I didn't even attempt to deploy nodebb, I had problems with much smaller projects!
    Nextjs routing was going through a change of design at the time, so perhaps that is less confusing now, but there were multiple other headaches. I would get build errors and issues with package management.

  • 3.8.0 Upgrade Support

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    borneliteB

    Thanks @baris

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    Mikha'il HatheyM

    I am using AWS SES and when I do a test email it works without issues, however when a new user registers they don't get the email validation and when I try resending it doesn't work either.

  • Cannot Reply to Posts

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    julianJ

    @Julien-Heng Let us know any errors on the front-end or backend.

    Make sure a composer (like composer-default) plugin is active in the backend.

  • Changing fonts across my website (starting with categories)

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    phenomlabP

    @JDouglas You should target the below CSS class for this

    li[component="categories/category"] .title

    You could just use .title although this is a shared class, and without explicit definition as above, it will have undesirable effects.

  • PWA push notifications

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    bh4 techB

    @Bejan The push notification plugin has already been open sourced https://community.nodebb.org/post/99553 by @julian

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    PitaJP

    @wnfdh2 yoyo need to move your plugin so it has a greater priority than the markdown plugin. Right now, the markdown is being parsed first so you already have the link when it comes to you.

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    Julien HengJ

    @Teresa-Hale-DHQ where did you supply the email? in the plugin setting in Admin Panel?

  • URL for email confirmations has bad subdomain

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    julianJ

    Hi @tpickles, what mailer plugin are you using, or service? url2462 sounds like something SendGrid might do... it looks like click tracking.

    Try disabling it?

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    PitaJP

    https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import?tab=readme-ov-file#this-plugin-only-supports

    THIS PLUGIN ONLY SUPPORTS: NodeBB v1.12.1

    but you can upgrade after the import is done

    So yes, it only supports an older version. If you buy NodeBB's hosted solution, we can perform the upgrade for you. Contact [email protected]

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    julianJ

    @PitaJ nice catch!

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    julianJ

    @Alexis-Sanchez There's a guide I've written for working with custom user fields in the user hash, but front-end wise you're looking to have a custom theme add the fields to the profile pages.

    Do you already have a custom theme?

  • Sendmail issues on a VPS with 2 instances of nodebb

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    Mikha'il HatheyM

    Thanks for the feedback will definitely try the SES method instead.

    My mailbox definitely has no sent mails from NodeBB. So I may have set it up incorrectly or SendMail really is problematic.

  • Amazon SES Using the Default Emailer Plugin

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    Mikha'il HatheyM

    Thanks a lot I will try this and see how it goes.

  • Blog comments on external blog website

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    crazycellsC

    @julian said in Blog comments on external blog website:

    @crazycells ah sorry, I didn't respond because I wasn't sure...

    But I think it should be fine. Technically according to browser security policy, nodebb.org and community.nodebb.org are essentially different sites.

    So if you used a different domain the same restrictions apply, but the plugin should still work.

    Thank you very much, we will try it and report the outcome then...

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    julianJ

    @phenomlab that doesn't sound like out of the box behaviour... can you reset all plugins and see if it reproduces?

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    N

    Hey,
    I use nodebb-plugin-session-sharing to automatically login users from my WebApp.
    This works great on desktop!

    But when I add the cookie to WebView of my React Native app i get:

    Encountered an error loading page code: -1007 description: "too many HTTP redirects" didFailProvisionalNavigation: true domain: "NSURLErrorDomain"

    I inject the cookie by calling

    <WebView source={{ uri: domain, headers: { Cookie: `${tokenName}=${token};Domain=${tokenDomain};HttpOnly;`}, } } />

    When I remove the cookie from the header and reload the app on Simulator, I'm logged in, so the cookie and the plugin mechanism is basically working.

    React Native WebView reference
    nodebb-plugin-session-sharing on Github

    Anyone an idea about this?

    Kind regards
    Niklas

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    @루루

    I use this one mongodb70-7.0.4 , no issue all perfect

  • Email Template callback URL is IP instead of Domain name

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    huigeH

    Change the address in your config.json file to your URL link

  • Changing number of forum hits

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    dave1904D

    @PitaJ thanks for the great explanation