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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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    Ubuntu 14.04 autostartup

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    thanks for that boys I worked it out 😉

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    Global Sidebar vs Category Sidebar

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    It has some, just not many.

  • shatS

    [RESOLVED] Users cannot post, You do not have enough privs

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    shatS

    @BDHarrington7 going to reinstall search and see if everything is working. I ended up removing all but mailgun and now going to see about enabling one by one to identify the culprit.

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    Assistance Configuring Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 with NodeBB

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    ?

    Check the docs for a list of steps:
    https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/configuring/proxies/nginx.html

    Also change location / to location ~^/

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    Using JS to Render Rotating Images in the Global Sidebar Widget

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    Thanks, we have it working now!

  • PilvinenP

    How to export from Redis to MongoDB? (My database got wiped)

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    Charly86C

    I had back this problem a 2nd time 2 days ago, I don't know if it's related but I was doing iptables FW settings on the VM, I had nodeBB running, and also redis and from my computer desktop redis desktop manager connected to DB.
    Then I made a mistake in iptables, blocked all redis port (even local), saying nodebb unable to connect to redis (so as redis desktop manager) then when I openned back 6379 port, all data was gone, not sure if it's related, just an information.

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    "If sentence in templating logic" does not work perfectly.

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    julianJ

    @HEESUB-BAE Do either of the imported templates contain conditionals with ELSE?

    As far as I know, nested IF..ELSE does not work yet. I was wrong, it works perfectly fine.

  • Dan PereiraD

    Registration Error when using Safari V 9.0.1

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    julianJ

    Hi Dan! As advised via chat, can you log in successfully onto this forum via Safari?

  • agusputraA

    What's the use of allow user home page

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    agusputraA

    @yariplus thanks

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    The problem with counter

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    Solved!

    <!--LiveInternet counter--><script type="text/javascript">jQuery(function($){$('.footer').append("<a href='//www.liveinternet.ru/click' target=_blank><img src='//counter.yadro.ru/hit?t14.1;r" + escape(document.referrer) + ((typeof(screen)=="undefined")?"":";s"+screen.width+"*"+screen.height+"*"+(screen.colorDepth?screen.colorDepth:screen.pixelDepth)) + ";u" + escape(document.URL) +";h"+escape(document.title.substring(0,80)) + ";" + Math.random() + "' border=0 width=88 height=31 alt='' title='LiveInternet: показано число просмотров за 24 часа, посетителей за 24 часа и за сегодня'><\/a>")});</script><!--/LiveInternet-->
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    Error updating to v0.9.x from v0.8.2

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    julianJ

    @SimonQ You can re-enable gravatar functionality by installing nodebb-plugin-gravatar.

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    Dont get category teaser for parent?

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    Unfortunately, I was unable to find a solution problem...

    But I found the problem for you!

    - Category teaser for parent still displayed if in the previous categories are no posts:

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    - When refresh the page is duplicated name of the topic.

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    - Bug timeago.

    If instead of seconds: "less than a minute" set seconds: "%d seconds" then post the time is 10 seconds, and will slowly drop to zero.

    @baris

  • Michael Joseph AubryM

    Accessing data inside header.tpl?

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    Michael Joseph AubryM

    Here is what I have done, I finally figured out how to get a list of categories, I kind of like this method but I hate having to pass an array, but it is what it is.

    var theme = {}; var catLength = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]; var Categories = module.parent.require("./Categories"); theme.init = function(params, callback) { Categories.getCategoriesData(catLength, function(err, data) { data.forEach(function(something, index) { if(something) { console.log(data[index].name); } }); }); callback(); }; module.exports = theme;

    Cool now I have all the categories and the next step is to create a dynamic header based on the categories, the problem is I am so confused on how to do that, I think I am missing something very obvious!

    I am inside a theme and I want to pass this into the precompiled template! 🙂

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    Versions node.js and nvm

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    agusputraA

    I'm install NodeBB v0.8.2.
    A recent version of nvm.
    For node.js I use node 0.12.x

    And so far works well.

    For details you can inspect package.json of NodeBB : https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/package.json#L88

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    Navigation Bar Tooltips

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    @baris haha wow, can't believe i didn't notice title="" 😛 was looking for data-toggle="tooltip" the entire time.

    Removing the title removed them thanks a bunch 👍

  • Tanguy Bodin-HullinT

    Trouble with script embedding in a widget.

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    yariplusY

    @scottalanmiller Sure! My minecraft plugin does this. Using the action:widgets.loaded hook for loading the initial data and appending it via jQuery using the data-widget selector, then I update the data using websockets and/or a setTimeout with an ajax call.

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    Display custom HTML in certain pages

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    Is the display real time? For another user in the same page.

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    Is there a note somewhere on compatibility with NodeJS releases?

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    PitaJP

    @codecowboy those were typos caused by autocorrect on mobile which I didn't catch.

    Should be "it" and "whole" I think

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    Use nodebb's user list for external auth?

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    R

    Okay, I think the API might just be a good place to start. Views?

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    Recent Post Character Limit?

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    @psychobunny I guess it was happening because I changed the HTML structure, and Persona theme CSS uses > selectors, making the styles dependant on the HTML structure. Fixed now anyway thanks 🙂

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