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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.

  • NodeBB composer drag bar, simple CSS tweak

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    @Arc It's great! Thank you very much for this, I included it in my forum immediately 🙂

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    @a_5mith you are right but the plugin seems to work.

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    @Joykiller there is no issue setting NodeBB up as root. I always do it like that and later chown the installation to another user. Then I start NodeBB over Supervisoe from that non-root user.

    Update:
    All issues resolved. 😛
    Re-setup everything.

  • [Solved] Help getting it to work

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    @Defaultuser You can also install custom pages and other plugins to make nodebb as a webpage. Check out my page, https://www.jenkler.se (Its in swedish but you get the point i guess) 😛

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    @AOKP thank you, thank you, thank you! Did this and was able to run NodeBB without issue.

    @julian I was curious about that, as I had no issues with a fresh install yesterday.

  • Installing Wordpress and NodeBB on Digital Ocean

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    @AOKP nothing really to share with the site yet, but if you're asking about the issue, this is what I'm struggling with.

  • Errors Search and Email

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    @pichalite said:

    @Defaultuser do you have the plugin nodebb-plugin-dbsearch activated?

    I believe links to email confirmation expire after certain time (need to confirm). Create a new user and try to verify it right away.

    I activated the search plugin. It works.

    I made a test account and still get that error. Also my admin account gets this error. I sent receive the email as soon as I login and the pop up asking to confirm it.

    *Edit trying to replace the nodebb logo in settings ends up have my logo and nodebb, where is the is the nodebb logo so I can replace it?

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    @pichalite Nope, use_port has been deprecated. Port usage is dictated by url from now on.

  • Where to put custom CSS file..

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    @yariplus said:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome-animation/0.0.8/font-awesome-animation.min.css">

    Perfect.. Thanks

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    The 24h delay was the issue.

    Thank you.

  • NPM Timing Out on NodeBB dependencies install

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    I was having some issues with NPM a few days ago which was timing out, but was a issue with ports due to my firewall setup. So check to make sure git port is not being blocked.

    Also could be an issue with the way your cloning. Was having issues cloning from another git like gitlab vs github, turns out the git:// git:link was the issue try adding that to the front if using SSH cloning.

  • issues installing Nodebb on Debian 8

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    This might be just me, but I wouldn't be loading that under root directory. Create a new user and use that for nodebb location under home location. As to nodebb not showing up. What does your nodebb config, and nginx config look like? I don't know what you mean by debian comes with nginx already. Sure might be in the repo but shouldn't come installed, Unless a script you ran installed it for you.

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    Hello guys, I'm a new member of this community, but i've already encountered a problem with my nodeBB forum

    My users have reported that there's no way to turn off the e-mail following notifications and they keep on sending, even though i turned it off globally.

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    Do you guys have any idea of what is wrong?

  • Default theme - add widget to side tab

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    I have a widget I want to add a side tab on the theme so people can click it and it opens up. How would I do this?Pic of what I'm talking about

  • How to insert bootstrap icon in a topic?

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    barisB

    It is possible with a plugin, like emojis, for example a plugin can replace the content :fa-star: with <i class="fa fa-star"></i>

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    On that note, a fully written out "demo" config.json file (or even a couple of them, one for Mongo and one for Redis) would be a nice to have in the documentation article about the nodebb config (in addition to the explanations of what each entry does).

    I'm willing to throw that together if others would find it useful.

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    barisB

    You can check your browser's console and network tab for any failed requests. Also check the server logs for any errors.

  • custom settings for template

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    Hello,

    I start to make a child-template for persona.
    The modifications will be light as some style change, add widget zones for categories, etc.

    I also would like to use a svg as logo and i would like to respect the flexibility and the back office structure.

    As i begin, i would like to know, is it possible to add field into settings page from the template?
    For my example, i would like to add an additionnal upload field into the general settings page?
    One for the svg, the other one for the png fallback.

    Another idea, add a check box for a no index option?
    Maybe i have to creat a plugin, maybe it is an option in headers on the advance settings page (i don't understand what is it about?).

    Thank you in advance for any help.
    jB

  • Editing the template

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    Ah, that would probably be how it happened 😄

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    barisB

    0.9.x doesn't have that code, you are probably on master. Try doing a git pull.