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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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    Z
    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.
  • Error 500 Uploading img to your forum

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    barisB
    This forum uses the imgur plugin and seems like the imgur upload url is returning 404
  • Upgrade from version 1.15.x to 1.16.x got error

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    Sandeep BhuiyaS
    here is the issue open in git https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/9125 please request to check cluster support before launching update.
  • How to add Google Analytics

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    data-dataninjaD
    Whats the recommended approach on adding google analytics? paste it in the custom header ?
  • Editing .tpl files

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    PitaJP
    @andrewweb the icons are all from fontawesome. You don't want to edit any css files. And if you edited admin.css, sure the icons might show up there, but they wouldn't show up on your forum. You can try adding custom css at ACP > Customize > CSS. That might work.
  • Digest not being sent as expected

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    Guys any update on this ?
  • Pushing to Heroku

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    @pitaj said in Pushing to Heroku: @rob any way you can use a heroku instance with an older version of Node / npm? Hey Pita Wanted to post earlier but had to wait for the post to be accepted, but you are correct. In case anyone else has the issue, this was it: In package.json the 'engine' line for node was =>10 so Heroku was choosing Node 15. Manually changed that value to the same as what works for me locally 12.14.1 - all works well. Now having fun setting up nodebb-plugin-session-sharing - cheers!! Rob
  • Minimum Password Strength

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    PitaJP
    @erik-viklander these are directly from the password strength calculation library zxcvbn which NodeBB uses to enforce password strength. result.score # Integer from 0-4 (useful for implementing a strength bar) 0 # too guessable: risky password. (guesses < 10^3) 1 # very guessable: protection from throttled online attacks. (guesses < 10^6) 2 # somewhat guessable: protection from unthrottled online attacks. (guesses < 10^8) 3 # safely unguessable: moderate protection from offline slow-hash scenario. (guesses < 10^10) 4 # very unguessable: strong protection from offline slow-hash scenario. (guesses >= 10^10)
  • Default composer not uploading images

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    barisB
    @patrick-anderson It should be on the network tab of your browsers console. Try uploading something while the network tab is open and it should show you the failing request. Then you can check what the server has returned in the same window.
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  • Browser console error

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    barisB
    @flarum-türkiye said in Browser console error: https://domain.ltd/plugins/nodebb-plugin-markdown/styles/railscasts.css Seems like the file is missing on your installation, did you run ./nodebb build and try again? That url should return the correct css ie https://community.nodebb.org/plugins/nodebb-plugin-markdown/styles/railscasts.css The error you are seeing happens because our core 404 handler is returning text/plain when it can't find the css file.
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  • Language errors in the browser console

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    barisB
    The issue with question and answer plugin folder name is fixed here https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-question-and-answer/commit/e6f9752e35fa46e15d88943bd107b6d0f538b3dd New version 0.8.3
  • SMTP not working.

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    @andrewweb So... I uninstalled sendmail from the server, even though I wasn't using it, and then changed something in UFW and now the board works. I'll see if the issue with registration and password persists, and I'll open a issue on GitHub. Thank you both for your kind answers.
  • Is there a way to use write api to quote or reply to a post?

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    @julian Very cool! great to see extensions to the write api. Cheers.
  • Unable to login after upgrade to 1.15

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    @baris sorry for the late reply I'm based in Europe. Thank you very much, it's working great now.
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    Hi all, still continuing on my OAuth2 plugin implementation, I've a problem I can't actually solve and need you valuable advises. I've this fragment in my plugin OAuth.getStrategy = function (strategies, callback) { winston.verbose('[maxonID] --> OAuth.getStrategy'); if (configOk) { passportOAuth = require('passport-oauth2'); passportOAuth.Strategy.prototype.userProfile = function (accessToken, done) { if (!accessToken) { done(new Error('Missing token, cannot call the userinfo endpoint without it.')); } this._oauth2.useAuthorizationHeaderforGET(true); this._oauth2.get(constants.userRoute, accessToken, function (err, body, res) { if (err) { console.error(err); return done(new Error('Failed to get user info. Exception was previously logged.')); } if (res.statusCode < 200 || res.statusCode > 299) { return done(new Error('Unexpected response from userInfo. [' + res.statusCode + '] [' + body + ']')); } OAuth.validateEntitlement(accessToken, constants.allowedEntitlement, function (err, accessAllowed) { if (err) { return done(err); } if (!accessAllowed) { // Need to find a way to gracefully notify the user and point back to login page return done(new Error('Forum access is not granted. Please contact your representative.')); } try { var json = JSON.parse(body); OAuth.parseUserReturn(json, function (err, profile) { ... and I'd like to return the user to the forum login page and notify him about the issue, something like when the password is wrong. Is there a smart way to make it happen from such a plugin without rising an error? Thanks a lot for your valuable insights, R.
  • Empty captcha in login page, cant access admin settings

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    barisB
    @jonaski said in Empty captcha in login page, cant access admin settings: onRecaptachaArgsReady Looks like there was an issue in the plugin with the login page. Should be fixed in 0.7.7. Let me know if it works now.
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    barisB
    Yes that should work, we might release 1.15.5 to hot fix https://community.nodebb.org/topic/15155/unable-to-login-after-upgrade-to-1-15 so you could use that too.
  • Adding custom icon made via icomoon

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    Hi all, can you please instruct me on how I can add an icon set made from Icomoon to nodeBB? I thought that adding it in ./public/vendor/icomoon and building the nodebb instance would have helped me to use the icon but looks like I can't. Any experience? Cheers, R