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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.

  • Ability to prevent counting posts

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    MrCakeSlayerM

    Is there a way to prevent post counts in certain categories from showing on a user's profile or in the user list/total post count areas?

    For example if we have like a Category for random/off-topic that users can somewhat spam in, Is there a way to prevent all posts in there from reflecting on the user's post counts?

    Whether there is an admin feature for this, custom code or even a plugin, An help is appreciated. Thanks.

  • Building ready to run NodeBB Docker images

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    ShardS

    I did a quick test to verify that nodebb setup will attempt to verify mongo access even if it has been provided - which I expected, but... and it does.

    So it seems that the best practice here would be to pass the values in as part of the build with the assumption that the Redis or mongo instance already exists.

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    PitaJP

    ./nodebb build is probably faster than a full upgrade run.

  • only 4 topics in recent list

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    @mj I found the problem.

    We have a few categories that afe not viewable for some users and we had over 80 topics in this category that's why the recent page had only 4 topics.

  • Need help include downloaded js files

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    PitaJP

    You could try including them in the Custom Header at ACP -> Appearance --> Custom Content

  • considering nodebb, having some questions

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    PitaJP

    @zwarag that would have to be done with a custom plugin as well

  • Can't login with admin [Merry Christmas]

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    PitaJP

    @username1001 yes that should work. Then run ./nodebb setup

  • Nodebb Breaks

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    https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/6197

  • Weird Digest Image Issue on Mobile

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    M

    For reference, other notifications on mobile look great.

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  • Using/Getting timestamp inside template

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    barisB

    I don't think we have a hook for that, I was also looking at the source code and seems like Date.now() is already appended to the url here https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/client/account/edit.js#L189, is your version of nodebb lacking that code?

  • Need help with Mongodb

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    i just hate those breaking changes that node introduce ... dafuq..... hope you guys dont use 3.6+ features in the near future 😄

  • How to upgrade nodebb from 1.70 to 1.72

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    julianJ

    After git checkout, you might also need to git pull to get the latest code 😃

  • Installing plugins via commandline in Docker

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    PitaJP

    ./nodebb build

  • can not start nodebb after upgrade

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    @teh_g after running npm i following error comes on console

    npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: connect 2.x series is deprecated
    npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead
    npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: ReDoS vulnerability parsing Set-Cookie https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/130
    npm ERR! Linux 3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64
    npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/bin/npm" "i"
    npm ERR! node v6.12.0
    npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
    npm ERR! code ETARGET

    npm ERR! notarget No compatible version found: [email protected]
    npm ERR! notarget Valid install targets:
    npm ERR! notarget 0.3.6, 0.3.5, 0.3.4, 0.3.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.0, 0.2.0
    npm ERR! notarget
    npm ERR! notarget This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.
    npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
    npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

    npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
    npm ERR! /home/pawan/Discussion forum/nodebb/npm-debug.log

    @julien

  • nodebb-plugin-session-sharing broken in 1.7.2

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    @baris tried right after you posted it yesterday and it worked, thank you!

    @julian it was definitely staying at 3.2.1 for me, both in the admin panel and through SSH. Were the commands I've used correct?

  • What wrong with my NodeBB? [HELP]

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    PitaJP

    Di you use sudo for any of the commands?

  • Need some help, upgrade error.

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    @baris problem solved, many thanks!

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    Hawks CastH

    Thank you.

    I've trying to isolate a few things now:

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    I can't find a way to colorize this white strip.

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    The font color for the "chat, quote, and reply" so it's easier to see.

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    And then the widgets (header/side bar) and button bar (I don't know what it's called).

    I've tried looking up the classes but they haven't provided a result that fixes it.

    Again, all help is greatly appreciated.

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    frju365F

    PS for other users : What I did is :
    1° / Go in you admin panel, in Gestion > Users, and write/see the UID of the user(s) you want to set the reputation to 0

    2° / Go in a terminal, and write :

    # mongod > use <yourdatabase> > db.objects.update({_key: "user:<uid>"}, {$set: {"reputation": 0}}); > db.objects.update({_key: "users:reputation", value: "<uid>"}, {$set: {"score": 0}});

    That's it ! 🙂

  • Hell of installation

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    @rami7250 said in Hell of installation:

    I own VPS Apache WHM server based on centos 6

    Don't use anything this old to start with.