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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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    phenomlabP

    @baris updated to 3.7.2 and now just waiting for the plugin to be updated.

  • Facebook Oauth

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    julianJ

    Could be 😃 Glad to hear it is working now.

  • Views and topics for mobile theme

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    사다리하하

    i think so~~~

  • This topic is deleted!

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    User on Windows 7 and latest Firefox says he can't click on the fields on the registration page. I can't replicate this. Any ideas?

    he says : "I couldnt register as all the fields are unable to click"

  • Can`t remove 1 topic from /unread section

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    Solution for me was - click "Mark unread" button inside topic - and then in /unread after clicking on issue topic everything was great) but I can not understand how it can be and why it was happened(

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    @capsule42 try this https://community.nodebb.org/topic/7829/nodebb-plugin-session-sharing-session-sharing

  • Cannot see new mobile theme

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    @pitaj said in Cannot see new mobile theme:

    There isn't a new mobile theme. If you're referring to the new slideout menus, they are still in testing.

    There isn't chat Icon in his screen shot!

  • Cannot modify setting !

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    @pitaj Thanks for your tip, It fixed 🙏

  • NodeBB process dying after upgrading to 1.7.0

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    attisA

    Thanks! Pulling right now 🙂

    [EDIT] Seems to have solved it!

  • Updater not work

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    @cpleak Read the docs https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/upgrade/

  • Big size of nodebb.sessions in MongoDB

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    Everything good. session was sucsessfully deleted after expired. and NodeBB has good resistant to attacks like ddos under 1.5 million requests by day!

  • Extra Commands Needed for Upgrade

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    PitaJP

    @billygrande ok as far as I can tell, you should be good when upgrading to the next version. Of course, let me know if that's not the case.

  • Anything to worry about?

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    Ok thanks will do that

  • Problem with images

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    frju365F

    Good, I found it !
    Thanks you very much !

    (it was in Settings -> Uploads)

  • Forbidden message after registration

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    Every now and again one of my users informs me that he is getting a forbidden message after trying to register. I have tried to replicate this on phones, tablets, different browsers and I never have a problem signing up to my forum.

    Has anybody got a clue as to what might be happening every once in a while to people trying to sign up?

    Running v1.7.0 on CENTOS 7 with NGINX reverse proxy.

  • Hamburger not working?

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    @mj I recently came across this problem and changing the theme from the current to a new theme and then back again, fixed the Hamburger button mobile bug.

  • Running on startup (PM2 preferably)

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    zipangZ

    @pitaj Well yes thxxs ! 👍
    It seems to work this command : pm2 logs nodebb
    I'll update this post if i encounter any unwanted behaviours with this solution !

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    ver 1.70

    i get this message a lot

  • header based on category_id

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    barisB

    What version of NodeBB and where did you place the custom javascript code?

    Maybe try

    <script> $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(){ if (ajaxify.data && ajaxify.data.cid && parseInt(ajaxify.data.cid, 10) === 1) { <!-- insert html image--> } else { <!-- remove html image --> } }); </script>

    Put some console.logs in there to make sure the expected code is being executed.

  • Issue with permissions, import, legacy

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    I finally found the issue, it is related to the timestamp (score) when the user get registered.
    I did not realized that my import was generating wrong type of time stamp {score":{"$numberLong":"1454992330000"}} rather than {score":1.509408313172e+12}

    I finally run this fixup to cope with my issue:

    db.objects.find({_key:"group:registered-users:members"}).forEach( function(e){ db.objects.update( {"_id": e._id}, {"$set": {"score": 0+e.score}} ) } );

    I hate this mongojs thingy 😤