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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. [image: youtubelogo.png] Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB
  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    Z
    not sure the plugin worked for firefox. saw a-z in the sort icon. when i used it, i expected the topics in the category would be sorted a-z. they werent
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    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.
  • v4.0.0 Upgrade Support

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    @karsten13 nice. Off topic but you can add mb-3 class to your header widget so it is not so close to your title. <div class="well mb-3" align="center" style="border:1px solid lightgrey">...</div> [image: 1738606765825-e0736a31-8b8c-4b7e-bc4b-4662e3f14f2f-image.png]
  • 3.12.0 Upgrade Support

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    @phenomlab Thanks for your advice and help as always, its working now with fastmail, with your custom set up and the app password
  • Show replies as quotes

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    However I think it would also be a good idea to offer a way to jump to the actual post as well. Perhaps the timestamp should be a link for that? Idk if that would be useful in chats as well. But in topics for sure, as you may want to jump up to that post a) to see other replies and b) to reply directly to it. So only viewing a copy of it above the reply will not always be enough. -ugh someone give me some reputation, wdym i have to wait 300 seconds between replies-
  • How do I get the domain and connect to the account via iFrame on my website?

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    I don't think there is any documentation for it, if you want you can look at the client side code we have to make requests using a csrf_token, or our tests in the nodebb tests folder.
  • odd error installing

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    trying to install nodebb4. ive done other installs of nodebb. this time when i get to the mongosh step to setup admin etc, i get error: mongosh Fatal error in , line 0 Check failed: VerifyChecksum(blob). yes, i verified that mongo is running. (the communit version)(. but dont have the foggiest what this error is all about.
  • Award plugin

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    DownPWD
    Thank you @julian for your answer Indeed, I already use the badge system but I would like to display it a little better with a medal or a trophy on the user's profile page and that can be personalized and customizable easily via the ACP and that the reward can also be added manually easily by an administrator via the ACP or other without having to resort to the customization plugin which poses a problem during updates and upgrades. After research, I found plugins that would correspond more to what I am looking for: https://github.com/toxuin/nodebb-plugin-trophies https://github.com/NicolasSiver/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards A kind of mix of the two in short
  • Letting Users Boost Topics from Global into Categories

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    K
    Cool! I was starting to suspect as much, but couldn't discount that I just missed a toggle somewhere.
  • Custom user group not showing up in Category Privileges

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    Thanks Julian!
  • NodeBB v4.0.0 - Categories not following group actors

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    @[email protected] Yep! Still this link. Just note there's no settings panel (all just in the plug-in init function), and you'll have to git clone and npm link it to test, since its not ready for the usual method yet https://github.com/Arachnibot/nodebb-tag-to-category/tree/dev
  • Images not federating?

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    @[email protected] @freamon https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13095
  • Cannot see Plug in page

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    @Aragon-Burner oh I thought you were developing a plugin and couldn't load the plugin page on the ACP. Looks like you are having trouble loading the /admin/extend/plugins page. Can you load /admin/development/info? If so can you post a screenshot of that page.
  • Is federation possible only between selected sites?

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    KosiakK
    @julian Yes, I still have to study this, but it really looks intentionally overcomplicated and confusing. It is now being forced by European funds, but I am extremely skeptical about this implementation. Much more friendly technologies have sunk into oblivion because they did not solve the problems of the mass audience and were not understood by them. Here, so many problems are created and it is unclear what problem is being solved at all. For example, discovery of new content or new platforms is impossible. I already need to have my own active communities or have many friendly platforms to get at least some distribution outside my forum. But if I already have friendly communities, then this technology is not so important to me because we can exchange links manually.
  • Migration from vbulletin possible?

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    Completely understood, that's why it's always been such a sticking point. We have some migrators available, but it's not always as easy as running a script and coming back to a NodeBB-compatible DB. There are always some thorny edge cases that crop up over and over again. Unfortunately we're not quite there yet, but perhaps we can get part of the way by consuming an ActivityPub actor's outbox? hmm... food for thought
  • How to hace nice URLs?

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    @julian how will this issue with the urls with accents and Ñ ñ affect the federated content and urls?
  • NodeBB v4.0.0 can't see /world

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    FrankMF
    why didn’t I think of that myself? Thank you @[email protected] and thank you for this release
  • Is it possible to redirect users to root after login?

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    @baris new info. when registering an user from /login it gets redirected to the profile instead of going to the root. I mean, share the link to register as "Forum.example/login" instead of sharing the root.. Is it possible this is related? Is this something that can be changed? Thanks Edit: I have not tried yet, but maybe if I share the url with login and then login from there, I go to the profile instead of getting back into the root? Did you try that @baris?
  • This navigation, how to increase. I'm a newbie

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    [image: 1737103598023-screenshot-1737103576996.png] This navigation, how to increase. I'm a newbie
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    @abc123 if you are unable to install NodeBB on your own I'd recommend using a hosted service (like manage.nodebb.org)
  • Search is not working

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    PilleP
    Thanks, now the testing can start with my testers. a not working search would have been a show stopper. Thanks for your input.
  • I can't install NodeBB

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    @xiaoye looks like an issue with the template engine and strings that start with @key and @value. I've created an issue here, in the meantime I will make some changes in core so an error like that widget doesn't prevent the page from rendering.