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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.
  • Amazon SES

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    @pitaj hmm...looking more closely at this...updating the dependencies might do it. But if not, that one seems to use the Amazon published SDK so it should definitely work. Thanks!
  • How to change user ids for session sharing plugin

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    @florian-rubel did you ever figure this one out?
  • Upgrade to 1.16.2 - "reply" broken in Chrome after browser reload

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    Further update - Problem appears to be fixed. One difference in browser errors is the prepareFooter error: Uncaught ReferenceError: highlight is not defined at HTMLDocument.prepareFooter ((index):3508) Further digging showed that the prepareFooter() is where custom javascript is placed and that was the issue. Custom java script was breaking the page during prepareFooter() which killed the reply functionality (along with a lot of other things). The java script was there to add functionality to highlight.js for syntax highlighting. now to dig into what has changed with highlight.js in the latest version.
  • Filter functions not showing in user list on ACP

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    You can click on the headers in the table to change the sorting. Inactive filter was just displaying users who haven't logged in the past x months so you can change sorting to last online sorted by ascending and see inactive users.
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  • Skin Switcher in User Settings

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    @baris said in Skin Switcher in User Settings: https://github.com/pichalite/nodebb-theme-slick/commit/c304310f7fbb23a452664d04d81b6b24fed61d0d Thank you!
  • Ubuntu 20.04 automatically start NodeBB on startup

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    gotwfG
    @dogs This looks kind of cool. Lord knows I am not a fan of systemd but it seems like the most practical choice for NodeBB startup/restart under systemd based systems. Which is pretty much all Linux nowadays. Yeah, I get void, alpine and gentoo exist. Other systems, however.... Seems like this pm2 could be a nice win over trad rc scripts. Or just use something Illumos based and SMF. Maybe Tribblix or Hipster? Oh... snap.... too many folks nowadays favor writing unportable software in the name of "efficiency". Others may just call it lazyness.... In any case, nice find.
  • How to add my own API?

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    @ape if you're using that hook, the routes are mounted to /api/v3, so the definition you provided would end up being accessible at /api/v3/test123
  • Grunt watch on plugin symlink

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    @baris That's it! That was the problem, I changes the directory layout to something more familiar to me. To test the solution I created a directory 'public' and saved a 'tmp.js' to it. I started grunt, changed the file and it recognized the change. Thanks for your help!
  • Sidebar Scrollbar similar to Discourse/Flarum

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    Hi, I would like to display a scrollbar to the right of topics. NodeBB already has the scrollbar but it's embedded in the pagination block in the bottom right corner. I tried modifying the code in the scrollbar.tpl file (persona template) but it did not work which is not surprising since the code in there is just an HTML container. Any help would be appreciated.
  • Tiny Text-Entry Field

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    @waugh have you considered upgrading nodebb to the latest version? I think that will fix your issue
  • Forum works only in dev mode.

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    gotwfG
    Your vm may have suffered an unclean shutdown. Note "may". In absence of more info, a couple things to try. If you have nodebb set up to be launched via systemd, disable that. And then stop just for good measure and then disable dependencies: systemctl disable nodebb systemctl stop nodebb systemctl disable nginx (sub apache if using apache) systemctl disable mongod (or whatever db backend you're using Then reboot the vm. When it comes back up we're going to restart all that in reverse order, verifying each is up and running before proceeding to next: systemctl status mongod systemctl status nginx systemctl status nodebb Those should now all report "disabled". So let's start them up, verifying each launches w/o error before proceeding to next systemctl start mongod If the startup messages are greek to you or pass by too quickly: systemctl status mongod Should report something very close to this: [root@forums ~]# systemctl status mongod ● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-03-05 06:57:52 UTC; 1 weeks 6 days ago Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual Process: 457777 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 457762 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chmod 0755 /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 457739 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown mongod:mongod /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 457725 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/mongodb (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 457824 (mongod) CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service └─457824 /usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf ‣ 457824 /usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf If that all looks good, try starting nodebb: systemctl start nodebb A status check should look something like this: [root@forums ~]# systemctl status nodebb ● nodebb.service - NodeBB Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nodebb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-03-05 06:59:17 UTC; 1 weeks 6 days ago Docs: https://docs.nodebb.org Process: 459055 ExecStart=/usr/bin/env node loader.js (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 459071 (node) CGroup: /system.slice/nodebb.service ├─459071 /usr/bin/node /opt/nodebb/loader.js ├─459082 /usr/bin/node /opt/nodebb/app.js If you are getting anything other than "SUCCESS" then stop just be sure: systemctl stop nodebb Then sudo to change to your nodebb user and then go try starting nodebb manually using the "log" flag: cd /where/ever/your/nodebb/lives ./nodebb start -l Then copy/pasta the ensuing spewage so the other gurus in the lurking can deconstruct. Good luck. Once you get this sorted, be sure to re-enable those services else they will not automatically restart after a shutdown/reboot. systemctl enable mongod systemctl enable nginx systemctl enable nodebb I'd even then reboot after that just to be sure all comes back up as expected. Yeah, this is not issue specific but when dealing with unknown glitches it is nice to rule out some low hanging fruit to help isolate.
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    @pitaj Currently I have problem with google search console.(Couldn't fetch sitemap) → problem with sitemap So I was testing my website with some google tools(testing url in search console, PageSpeed Insights, ...) and search console show error with those files. Just tried to solve my sitemap problem... Still, the problem has not been solved
  • problem with sitemap

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    @dunlix I think it is google's problem https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/2790050?hl=en just same as my case. answer in this link said Your sitemap can be processed by google ranging from 24 hours to 24 days (even 1 month + in some rare case)
  • problem with email verification

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    In the event you missed them, I took a couple stabs at some email tutorials. The intent was to provide enough understanding to get you pointed in the right directions rather than get 'er done copy/pasta recipes. Hence, they may or may not be the droids you're looking for: Read first: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15072/nodebb-email-options Read second: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15077/nodebb-email-postfix-null-client
  • Setting up a development environment for designing themes

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    @pitaj I meant on a production environment. Thanks though
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  • Welcome email does not have the email footer

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    Welcome email template doesn't append the email footer that has unsubscribe button. Digest email template are working fine with email footer. Does anyone face the same issue?
  • Heroku setup error "NodeBB could not connect to your PostgreSQL database"

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    @julian Thanks for the invitation to contribute. Is there something i should consider regarding the issue / pull request - markup, document structure,...?