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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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    phenomlabP

    @frontendjulien Always happy to help.

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    phenomlabP

    @baris updated to 3.7.2 and now just waiting for the plugin to be updated.

  • Loop loading notification and messages

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    M

    Hello,
    I installed a fresh version from Github and i have problem with loading notifications and messages. I see notifications and messages only when i click show all notifications.
    https://i.imgur.com/OMRxpFJ.gif

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    Samuel SchmidS

    Thanks for your replies!

    @julian This will be the solution in this case.

    @PitaJ Great, Thanks.

    Currently I don't have time to join the development community of contributors. If I have in future, I will take a look into code to write a backup function also for the registration.

    The software is really great, congratulations for the community.

  • Installation help

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    PitaJP

    which guide are you following?

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    Samuel SchmidS

    @PitaJ thanks! That was the issue

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  • How to delete resources of 404

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    ufan0U

    This is a sad song, I forgot to backup the avatars and pictures uploaded by the user.
    So I loss them all, and now them will be 404 when openning my site.

    I only know about deleting fields of 404 in the database, but this workload is too much.
    Who can tell me how to delete resources of 404 efficiently, thanks a lot.

  • Upgrade steps from v1.12.0 to v1.13.2

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    PitaJP

    It used to be that you had to upgrade in multiple steps, but not anymore. You can upgrade directly from 1.12.0 to 1.13.2

    Make sure you backup your database

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    X

    By looking into logs/output.log

  • Removing skin from Theme

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    barisB

    Revert button should be at bottom right in ACP.

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    LukasL

    @julian aby progress to support dynamodb? I see database folder inside tests. If no progress is done to support dynamodb and i would like to start coding, these tests would tell me if i'm done? can i trust tests coverage?

  • Translate api

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    julianJ

    Hi there -- not at present, no... however there's no reason why that can't be developed if you're interested in sponsoring the work. Reach out to us at [email protected] 🙂

  • Group Badge does not show up

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    julianJ

    @dschilling it is actually slightly confusing, he may not have explicitly set it, but saving the user settings might have automatically set the badge as "no badge" since he did not have a badge at the time.

    Something we'll want to address for sure 🙂

  • Can't access forums from www.website.com

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    PitaJP

    @Brian-Rivera that's not an error, its just info

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    y hY

    Similar issue there is no Carousel Mode only four recent topics, any idea's how to fix it?

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    julianJ

    All of our translation efforts are handled on Transifex (https://www.transifex.com/nodebb/nodebb/), but in general, yes... fixes and incorrect translations would be handled there, and custom changes specific to your community you'd make to those files directly.

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    julianJ

    I don't know if Zeit Now (while really cool!) would work for NodeBB... NodeBB is a web application, and does lots of stuff in the background that relies on a server running. To have a service that spins up whenever a request comes in would be much too slow, if only because that first spin up would take many seconds!

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    Purple-CSGOP

    thx, I gonna try

  • Delete tag

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    barisB

    Link Preview Image tags values not escaped · Issue #8175 · NodeBB/NodeBB

    https://community.nodebb.org/topic/14582/delete-tag

    favicon

    GitHub (github.com)

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    N

    Hello, I have imported database from the mybb using importer tool, then upgraded nodebb forum to newest one (1.13.2)
    I wanted to make a category become subcategory of another. But like image shows,

    Screenshot from 2020-02-22 16-12-06.png

    Nothing is shown (but I can still select any of those blank fields).

    How do I fix this?