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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    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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    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.
  • Codepen Plugin

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    @julian Works (once I upgraded to a compatible NodeBB)! Thanks again!
  • Upgrade from NodeBB 1.13.3

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    @pitaj Works great! Thanks!
  • Upgrade error 1.17.1 to 1.18.x

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    gotwfG
    @pitaj Maybe put a temp note in the install docs since 16.x went LTS today?
  • Does NodeBB install well on Ubuntu 21.04?

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    Note: LTS switched to 16.x today.
  • help! help!Replace the url of the image before rendering the page.

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    @picasso-shief @baris hi ~buddy,can you help me
  • hook method is not triggering from custom theme library.js

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    @aniinprni you might try renaming it to index.js instead. Or set "main": "library.js", in package.json
  • Update category picture (via image upload) API not working

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    @baris Using the below site, reminding me of just how powerful Chrome Developers tools are, I was able to Copy As Curl the specific PUT command. Curl Convert Then using the same command and just changing the CID, I confirmed the same command works for all of them. This is what ended up working, it includes all the recorded headers, of which some will be removed as not necessary: curl 'http://pubdump.unfufadoo.net:4567/api/v3/categories/80' \ -X 'PUT' \ -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \ -H 'Accept: */*' \ -H 'DNT: 1' \ -H 'x-csrf-token: H5FMJEaY-CthHWM_2Unzf7DtoPeryGq_JejE' \ -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' \ -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8' \ -H 'Origin: http://pubdump.unfufadoo.net:4567' \ -H 'Referer: http://pubdump.unfufadoo.net:4567/admin/manage/categories/80' \ -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,zh;q=0.8,zh-CN;q=0.7,zh-TW;q=0.6,ja;q=0.5,ko;q=0.4,th;q=0.3' \ -H 'Cookie: _csrf=27ygKMdG0c0EyiVsJKAkKpId; express.sid=s%3AdODaXfUpLz7NTFsijWLq0d2rPUhH1Ki4.qkyxWOaxlBy%2BLDRpTYbhWS9QkD9IJE%2FRTN1vIhp7yV4' \ -H 'sec-gpc: 1' \ --data '{"backgroundImage":"/assets/uploads/category/category-84.jpg"}' \ --compressed \ --insecure Then using the cURL convert site, was able to save as javascript and modify to our needs so that we could loop through all categories. Jeff
  • how change post quick reply component become editor?

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    Picasso shiefP
    how change post quick reply component become editor? [image: 1635060073010-ed5bfe2d-fb9a-41f3-8b77-b33ae0c7d0c8-image.png] [image: 1635059950019-2c12236d-3bbf-4d3c-8f26-4ffc3490277d-image-resized.png]
  • what this plugin ? for quote

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    It is in core will be available in next release.
  • Uncaught Error: Script error for "timeago/jquery.timeago"

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    Picasso shiefP
    @baris thanks very very much! it works! my nodeBB version is tag:V1.18.4
  • setup error: TypeError: Invalid Version: upgrades

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    Picasso shiefP
    @pitaj thanks,it works~
  • Anyone managed to get NodeBB and Ghost working together ?

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    @gotwf Yeah, just saw that and replied ! Thanks
  • Constructed "post request" when submitting a new post

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    @baris Thanks a lot!
  • How Generate Admin Token and call API create Topic

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    I build my website base on nodebb. I have group Facebook and now i want to build a tool crawl all question from group to my website. In my VPS i have upgrade nodebb 1.14x to 1.18.4. But i cannot generate token to use v3/api of nodebb. Call API: POST https://domain.vn/api/v3/users/5866/tokens (5866 is my uid admin account) but got forbidden like picture below: Is that issue about CORS or session, admin setting? I found some docs talk about 2 type token (master and user token) but i not really understand them. Please help me make a sample to call my API create topic or post by Request package npm. Thank you a lot. [image: 1634825116937-744109d5-1319-421d-8b60-f775c5f17c85-image.png]
  • Resizing images from URL

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    gotwfG
    @lmx Good question. I am unsure whether ACP->Settings->Uploads affects url images. I think it does but been a while since I tweaked those knobs.... Have you tried/tested any of those that relate to images?
  • Vimeo Embed Code Issue with v1.17.2 and Redactor

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    On our version of NodeBB (v1.17.2) which uses the Redactor plugin for text entry, clicking the Redactor's Video button to embed a video, the dialog that opens suggests: Video Embed Code or YouTube/Vimeo Link But if you actually enter the embed code from Vimeo, it messes up the post to the point where the user can no longer edit it. On the other hand, a YouTube or Vimeo link by itself works fine. I know Redactor is no longer supported, but do you have any idea how we could fix this issue? Best Wishes, Mark
  • Question about forum alert

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    Is there anything new about this?
  • Avoiding E-Mail verification in case of LDAP login

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    @goik You will need to have the plugin call await user.email.confirmByUid(uid); when the account is created. But a different question -- do you need to have the account confirmed? By default privileges are set up so that both confirmed and unconfirmed accounts can post new topic/replies, etc., so there is no functional difference except that outgoing emails won't be sent to unconfirmed emails. If it's merely to "check a box", then maybe it is ok to just not confirm any emails. Might be the plugin needs updating to auto-confirm email addresses.
  • Force/use Night mode plugin by psyckobunny by default

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    @downpw by source code I mean the plugins code in GitHub. The css is somewhere there. https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-night-mode/blob/master/static/style.less
  • Search function not working

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    Rebuilding the index fixed it!