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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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    eeeeeE

    I think you answered my point, by agreeing there are issues.
    I didn't even attempt to deploy nodebb, I had problems with much smaller projects!
    Nextjs routing was going through a change of design at the time, so perhaps that is less confusing now, but there were multiple other headaches. I would get build errors and issues with package management.

  • How to embed youtube video

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    agusputraA

    It turns out clash with plugin-iframely.
    After I disabled plugin-iframely then the youtube preview show up.

  • Admin Approval email

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    ferikF

    Thank you

  • Error deleting user picture

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    Marc Boisvert-DuprasM

    @psychobunny Done! https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/3804

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    Danny McWilliamsD

    You can integrate the forum as a comments engine for Ghost or WordPress using this plugin:

    https://community.nodebb.org/topic/810/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments-blog-commenting-engine-ghost-wordpress-widget

  • Broken profile edit page

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    Asaduzzaman PavelA

    Hello,

    i am having some issue with the profile edit page in the persona theme (git)

    here is some screenshot:

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    if you dont use plugins and you use persona is kinda safe

  • No IP binding possible: glooming on 0.0.0.0

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    julianJ

    The two options are not mutually exclusive, Herr Direktor. 😄

    Bind address should be your local ethernet interface. Set it to 127.0.0.1 if you only wish to have the machine itself access it (or reverse proxy via nginx).

    url is just used by NodeBB when it needs to refer to itself as a URL.

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    @julian

    Hahaha, good question. I didn't even notice. I just googled for the documentation to get to it quickly. I didn't even pay attention to the URL.

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    Sounds like it may be stuck in cache. I'd clear your cache and see if it goes away.

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    @julian said:

    Once v0.9.0 is released, these emailer version mismatches will be dealt with... 😄

    Thanks i too am having similar problems

  • Menu route to external URL

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    PitaJP

    @ThomLSA Are you reverse proxied through nginx? Do you have the capacity to add a DNS record?

    If so, then adding it as a subdomain is pretty easy.

  • Unread-count subcategory indications

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    lulzdevL

    Hello all,

    Simple question; did not see it posted yet.
    How can one incorporate an unread-count, indicating the count for a specific subcategory? For instance, the Announcements category, or a subcategory within.

    I have created a new navigation option, directing to a subcategory, but I would like to have an unread count appear on that option, but I need it to only show how many are unread in the specific section. I played around in the admin panel, to no avail, and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you.

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    Tanguy Bodin-HullinT

    Thank you.
    I did disable the option in the API-write module, and now it's working in a shell terminal when I send the above CURL command.
    But when I try to use CURL in HTTPS within my PHP program,
    I get this message (401) : A valid login session was not found. Please log in and try again.
    I don't understand why I get this message, because :

    I'm sending the Master token in the Header by calling the PHP function curl_setopt with the option CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER I try to send the credentials (login/password) by calling the PHP function curl_setopt with the option CURLOPT_USERPWD and login/password.
  • Notifications wrong URL "/forum/forum"

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    @baris said:

    This is fixed on latest master/persona/vanilla.

    I fixed the issue by adjusting notifications_list.tpl:
    Line 17:
    <a href="{notifications.path}">

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    JenklerJ

    @baris ,

    Social sso plugin problem solved I can now select ssl option
     

    Still get

    [plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME to disable it.

    nodebb-plugin-emailer-local

    And Emailer not installed , any suggestions?

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    julianJ

    @ron_jeremy We do offer the non-profit plan (at the $20/mo price point), although support is not included with that plan, and is billed hourly.

    We'd need any non-profit documentation you can obtain (either provincial or federal) in order to verify eligibility 🙂

  • Nodebb not start

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    julianJ

    Seems like your Redis server is not running, did you install it onto your system?

  • Got error while implementing facebook login

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    Sameer YadavS

    My bad, this error was caused by extra / in config.json

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    rydavimR

    SOLVED

    Just in case anyone else runs into a similar problem, I was looking at the wrong api urls to get what I needed.

    I needed to be getting JSON from the topic data, rather than category or post. Most everything is working now.

    😤

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    Thanks @pitaj . I am learning and it getting more interesting. I am able to do the menus also partially and with lil more time, I can i for the way i want i guess. Thanks you ur support.