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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. [image: youtubelogo.png] Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB
  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    not sure the plugin worked for firefox. saw a-z in the sort icon. when i used it, i expected the topics in the category would be sorted a-z. they werent
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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.
  • /login button stopped working

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    @kurulumu-net Odd. I'm not able to reproduce this. Have you tried disabling plugins to see if any of those are the culprit ?
  • NODEBB Forum A course on deleting topics permanently

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    PitaJP
    What plugins do you have? Try disabling all plugins.
  • (?...Using a plugin) Installing the jQuery directory in NodeBB

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    @pitaj JS is enabled in the browser. But only preload the jQuery library using JS Custom Help. Now it's ok
  • emoji error

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    dunlixD
    @fly777 maybe. Try going to Admin > plugins> emoji and build emoji assets and rebuild and restart forum
  • Cannot write post or reply after 1.15 -> 1.16

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    I had the same problem now when updating again. The solution was to enter the docker container: docker exec -it ff747e7168b7 /bin/sh then when building it printed some errors: /opt/nodebb # ./nodebb build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.384Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.387Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/autocomplete.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.389Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/categoryList.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.389Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/controls.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.390Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/drafts.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.390Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/formatting.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.391Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/preview.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.391Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/resize.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.392Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/scheduler.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.392Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/tags.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.392Z [4567/320] - warn: [plugins] File not found: /opt/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/uploads.js (Ignoring) 2021-11-11T11:56:22.394Z [4567/320] - info: [build] Building in parallel mode 2021-11-11T11:56:22.395Z [4567/320] - info: [build] plugin static dirs build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.398Z [4567/320] - info: [build] requirejs modules build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.399Z [4567/320] - info: [build] client js bundle build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.435Z [4567/320] - info: [build] admin js bundle build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.435Z [4567/320] - info: [build] client side styles build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.436Z [4567/320] - info: [build] admin control panel styles build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.437Z [4567/320] - info: [build] templates build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.437Z [4567/320] - info: [build] languages build started 2021-11-11T11:56:22.889Z [4567/320] - warn: [meta/css] File not found! nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/less/composer.less 2021-11-11T11:56:22.994Z [4567/320] - warn: [meta/css] File not found! nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/less/composer.less 2021-11-11T11:56:25.310Z [4567/320] - info: [build] plugin static dirs build completed in 2.915sec 2021-11-11T11:56:38.072Z [4567/320] - info: [build] client js bundle build completed in 15.673sec 2021-11-11T11:56:38.073Z [4567/320] - info: [build] admin js bundle build completed in 15.638sec 2021-11-11T11:56:38.081Z [4567/320] - info: [build] client side styles build completed in 15.646sec 2021-11-11T11:56:42.625Z [4567/320] - info: [build] admin control panel styles build completed in 20.189sec 2021-11-11T11:56:42.787Z [4567/320] - info: [build] languages build completed in 20.35sec 2021-11-11T11:56:43.191Z [4567/320] - info: [build] templates build completed in 20.754sec 2021-11-11T11:56:47.327Z [4567/320] - info: [build] requirejs modules build completed in 24.929sec 2021-11-11T11:56:47.329Z [4567/320] - info: [build] Asset compilation successful. Completed in 24.933sec. Then I removed all plugins, enabled only quill, rebuild (no more missing file warnings) and restarted the docker container.
  • With the new NodeBB update (v.1.18.5) Recent page stopped showing.

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    You can run git cherry-pick 74aa12c95b2acd3dab01b283c33eb24a358411aa to get it.
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  • Migrate nodebb to phpbb

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    Hello, is there any tool/plugin/exporter/importer that can help me migrate nodebb to phpbb?
  • Using within the NodeBB mobile app

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    We want to use NodeBB in a part of our native application. Can we use basic forum functions like registration, new topic, post, groups, websocket, chat via API? Is there a document for this? Thanks.
  • Digest posts' images not showing

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    I've found this: [image: 1636060888534-strip_email.png] But I think that's correct this way, right?
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  • Update to v.1.18.5 don't work

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    FrankMF
    Tested it this morning with my second forum like this. ./nodebb upgrade Aborted with error. node_modules/ saved elsewhere. Then a npm install Then checked the version npm list sharp Was the right version. ~/nodebb_test$ npm list sharp [email protected] /home/user/nodebb_test └── [email protected] After that ./nodebb upgrade Ran through flawlessly. Then rebuild & restart. Oddly enough, I always have to run ./nodebb upgrade twice with this version until the forum works properly. But this should not be the problem here. Now I'm on version 1.18.5 - a stony way. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) @pitaj Thank you!
  • Cannot Login to nodebb: "Welcome back guest"

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    @arnaudw I installed a new forum on a heroku server and when I connect via myapp.herokuapp.com it works great But when I connect through my domain it is written to me "welcome back guest" but really stayed disconnected (I only use a subdomain, at the domain root I use for another site, I use cloudflare I set ssl and force ssl) I would be happy to help, thanks
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  • What is the CSS code for ... ?

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    The third: .category .category-item.highlight, .topic .topic-item.highlight {} Hope it's would be helpful for others.
  • does it work on Win11 ARM build?

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    Re: Why new accounts created by api doesn't work with nodebb-plugin-session-sharing Thanks a lot! I will try it on
  • Why new accounts created by api doesn't work with nodebb-plugin-session-sharing

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    Hello, I created some accounts with the api/v3, but those accounts can't log in by email on the forum, and consequently can't log in with session sharing plugin. I searched a long time, because this used to work on nodebb v1.15. But on v1.18, some db objects are only set after the call of confirmByUid function : ['email:uid', uid, currentEmail.toLowerCase()], ['email:sorted', 0, `${currentEmail.toLowerCase()}:${uid}`], [`user:${uid}:emails`, Date.now(), `${currentEmail}:${Date.now()}`] So you have to confirm each account before the plugin "session sharing" works with them. To resolve this, i made a custom plugin and used the "confirmByUid" function : library.js : const Users = require.main.require('./src/user') var Plugin = { onCreateUser: function (postData) { const { user } = postData; Users.email.confirmByUid(user.uid); Topics.markAllRead(user.uid); } } plugin.json : "library": "./library.js", "hooks": [ { "hook": "action:user.create", "method": "onCreateUser" }, ] I hope this can help ;).
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  • Bootbox 5.5.2 Cross-Site Scripting

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    barisB
    Bootbox is used to show modals and alerts. You can test it by running bootbox.alert('hello') in your browser console. The vulnerability mentioned comes from bootbox allowing any html to be passed in. For example bootbox.alert('hello<script>alert("ok")</script>') This will execute the javascript in the text. So it has to be sanitized before passing it to bootbox. bootbox.alert(utils.escapeHTML('hello<script>alert("ok")</script>')) For the full discussion you can check https://github.com/makeusabrew/bootbox/issues/661
  • Codepen Plugin

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    @julian Works (once I upgraded to a compatible NodeBB)! Thanks again!