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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.

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    Background Intermittent - Custom CSS

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    L

    Interesting. I'll have to keep this one in my back pocket for the future.

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    install camo for nodebb-plugin-iframely

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    @j.b.-o. sorry for the late reply! @yariplus and me just released nodebb-plugin-camo which should make this whole process a lot more easier and automatic. You can find the explanation post here.

  • rezaariaR

    Facebook MetaTag problem

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    according to their scraped info they have the correct og:title but don't display it, might be because of the arabic(?) characters
    here is a debug of this site and it works fine https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.nodebb.org

    edit: you might have to set opengraph locale with

    <meta property="og:locale" content="ar_AR" />

    you can just add this on your admin page under appearance > custom html & css > custom header

  • R

    v1.0.1: Upgrade fails during 'adding message to chat room'

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    R

    I had this problem going from v0.9.4 -> v1.0.0 and now still have it going from v0.9.4 -> v1.0.1 but now I have additional information about it. See here for my original post.

    The tl;dr is

    $ ./nodebb upgrade 1. Bringing base dependencies up to date... OK 2. Checking installed plugins for updates... OK 3. Updating NodeBB data store schema... 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: Beginning database schema update 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: [2015/09/30] Converting default Gravatar image to default User Avatar skipped 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: [2015/11/06] Gravatar removal skipped 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: [2015/12/15] Upgrading chats 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: adding message 1 to new roomID 1 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: adding message 2 to existing roomID 2 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: adding message 3 to existing roomID 2 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: adding message 4 to new roomID 2 18/3 15:15 [1511] - info: adding message 5 to new roomID 3 18/3 15:15 [1511] - error: [upgrade] Errors were encountered while updating the NodeBB schema: ERR value is not a valid float OK NodeBB Upgrade Complete!

    Before deleting the "message:x" keys from my redis database (to attempt the upgrade again) I noticed that message:5 was different than the other message keys. Specifically it seems the upgrader is choking on message:5

    "Bad" Message 5 key:
    0_1458338042461_redis-message5.png

    "Good" message key:
    0_1458338006166_redis-message6.png

    So it appears that the NodeBB upgrader does not like messages that do not have a touid or fromuid or possibly timestamp information. Should this be reported as a bug?

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    v1.0.1: Plugin checker did not run on upgrade

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    I've run the v1.0.1 updater against my DEV and it did not see that I have 8 plugins with updates available.

    I ran the ./nodebb upgrade command which should have triggered the update mechanism according to:

    0_1458336840299_nodeBB-PluginChecker.PNG

    But now with v1.0.1 running I see these updates available:

    0_1458336935391_nodeBB-PluginUpdatesAvailable.PNG

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    what will happen with new install

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    C

    @pichalite had problems and will have to test again and report back.

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    Forum Stats Being Shown While in Maintenance Mode

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    R

    To comment further after much mulling it over, the Extend > Widgets should have a specific entry for the maintenance mode page.

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    Authorization and registration on the one page

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    @julian said:

    You'll want to investigate how the request is made, and mimic it with the new fields

    Yes.

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    Showing Subcategories on the Mainpage with 0.9.3

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    Danny McWilliamsD

    Thanks @pichalite I'm currently on v1.0.0. It'd be nice to have, but I think I should just get my forum online again before looking at cosmetic alterations!

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    Nodebb 9.3 - Shutting Down and restarting automatically when clicking InstallPlugin - menu on ACP

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    julianJ

    Fixed in the package manager, your plugin lists should be working again.

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    PHP page in /public/ ?

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    H

    Ok, thank you for your fast response 😃

  • Artem AlekseevA

    Composer dedicated route bug

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    julianJ

    Please file a bug against the composer-default repository. Thanks!

  • MagicVishM

    Building a Start Up Entrepreneurs forum, anyone help in setting it up. Community Works

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    MagicVishM

    awesome bro will check it out thank you

  • N

    Is there theme that make my site looks like this?

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    @Nisthar said:

    @a_5mith said:

    @Nisthar said:

    some of my users are complaining that theme is not very user friendly.

    And they recommended that as a better alternative? That black on blue combination is something else.

    My recommendation would be to role with Lavender, then adjust the theme to match the dark theme you're going for. I had a lightbulb in my header that switched between dark and light on my old theme. Will do it for persona at some point. But I'm in no rush.

    I think lavender theme does not support custom skins like persona.

    Not as well, but the bootstrap custom skins are a bit flaky anyway. IMO obviously. If you want a theme you're happy with. You'll have to roll your own or get the nodebb guys to quote you for the work. There isn't a one size fits all theme unfortunately unless you know how to write CSS.

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    What do I do...?

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    Do you have command 'node' beyond 'nodejs'?
    Those error massages seem to say it.

    If you don't, there will be may ways to solve it depend on what kind of your system, BUT simply just make a sym link.

    which node cd /usr/bin/ ln -s nodejs node
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    This topic is deleted!

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    How can i do this?

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    baris said:

    See how it's done in persona here. You need latest master as well.

    source

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    Any widgets like this for nodebb?

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    just bumping

  • SergioNGS

    Stuck on "Global Moderators group found, skipping creation!"

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    SergioNGS

    @baris well finally managed to get it working, I was missing to accept merging the branch when doing the pull.... but that was not enough as now it was showing me a problem with the widget essentials... so I checkout the commit for "up widget essentials" and that fixed it for me!!

    Thank you for your time @baris 😀 👍

  • JenklerJ

    A new version (v1.0.1-auto.0) has been released.

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    julianJ

    You should stick to v1.x.x branch 😄

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