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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.
  • How to add custom profile fields to a NodeBB forum ?

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    Thank you @julian you always respond and seem motivated in helping the community. By proprietary I meant no effort has been made to provide clean working examples for the latest nodebb, as in maintenance of such documentation for people jumping into nodebb to replace their old system. You have a great product here, with so much more potential and I understand you may not have resources and funding to provide so much documentation and maintain working example of a plugin that does CRUD with custom fields/custom data, but it becomes harder for new adopters if they're unable to figure out cost effective way to replace their old platforms which have plethora of 3rd party add-ons and plugins especially dealing with custom fields and custom data. I take the blame as well, as part of the community it is partly our job to help keep a set of quickstart plugins, documentation, help available to enhance and optimize the process for new adopters. I hope the community gets together and makes something like a curated directory of available plugins, and tags and tracks what versions each supports, and tries to keep a version that supports the latest major version updates. Thank you for the wonderful product, I keep trying and finding an excuse to adopt it and hopefully I will get there sooner or later.
  • hiding "moved" badge from topic list

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    crazycellsC
    @baris thank you very much.
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  • codes for the skins

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    crazycellsC
    @baris said in codes for the skins: The css for these are coming from https://bootswatch.com/, you can find them in nodebb/node_modules/bootswatch/dist Thank a lot... I searched the GitHub and found them here: https://github.com/thomaspark/bootswatch/tree/v5/dist
  • Getting all recent topics in all available categories

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    barisB
    The above code is for a server side function that renders a feed template. It is meant to be used in a nodebb plugin.
  • How does nodebb-plugin-link-preview work exactly?

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    Replied in the other linked topic.
  • Scaling Nodebb on Apache 2.4

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    @julian yeah, database in the same VM. I already did re-indexing using this commands.
  • 3.7.0 Upgrade Support

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    @phenomlab said in 3.7.0 Upgrade Support: @crazycells [image: 1710346483231-62085e6b-8993-47e4-80d8-2f07f862ca07-image.png] looks delicious [image: monkey-ape.gif]
  • Quick Reply missing after upgrade to 3.7.0

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    @B-738 spiders are bots, web crawlers, etc. You can restrict access to them for certain categories, for example.
  • Docker Compose nodebb + postgres | Error connecting to database

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    As you named your postgres container db, you should use db as database host.
  • How can I change Redis configuration directory?

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    @julian I tried that route, and it still didn't work: -rw-r--r--. 1 redis redis 63122 Mar 6 13:56 /path/to/redis/redis.conf redis.service: (changed the path to my redis.conf) ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /path/to/redis/redis.conf --supervised systems After changing the redis service file: systemctl daemon-reload systemctl start/restart redis ● redis.service - Redis persistent key-value database Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/redis.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/redis.service.d └─limit.conf Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-03-07 16:18:06 EST; 7s ago Process: 3672598 ExecStop=/usr/libexec/redis-shutdown (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 3672869 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /path/to/redis/redis.conf --supervised systemd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 3672869 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Mar 07 16:18:06 my-lab systemd[1]: Starting Redis persistent key-value database... Mar 07 16:18:06 my-lab redis-server[3672869]: 3672869:C 07 Mar 2024 16:18:06.355 # Fatal error, can't open config file '/path/to/redis/redis.conf' Mar 07 16:18:06 my-lab systemd[1]: redis.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Mar 07 16:18:06 my-lab systemd[1]: redis.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Mar 07 16:18:06 my-lab systemd[1]: Failed to start Redis persistent key-value database.
  • CSS codes for icon color change according to the categories

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    crazycellsC
    In case anyone else might be intrested, I fixed this color problem using these codes: .category-1 , .category-70 , .category-120 { .category-children-item .fa-caret-right { color: #ff9800 !important ; } } .category-111 { .category-children-item .fa-caret-right { color: #e91e63 !important ; } } .category-2 , .category-77 , .category-78 , .category-126 , .category-127 , .category-132 , .category-93 , .category-115 { .category-children-item .fa-caret-right { color: #4caf50 !important ; } } Basically I had to name each category separately... So, if there is any suggestion to shorten the code, I would love to hear...
  • Send email notification to admin from new registered users.

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    barisB
    I've updated this plugin to nodebb 3.2 and up, new version is 3.0.0.
  • Bulk move users to group?

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    You would have to run a custom script like below. Place it in your nodebb folder, change the group name your special access group and run it with node myscript.js. It will add all users who have 10 posts or more into that group. 'use strict'; const nconf = require('nconf'); nconf.file({ file: 'config.json', }); nconf.defaults({ base_dir: __dirname, views_dir: './build/public/templates', upload_path: 'public/uploads', }); const db = require('./src/database'); const groupName = '<Replace with your groupname>'; db.init((err) => { if (err) { console.log(`NodeBB could not connect to your database. Error: ${err.message}`); process.exit(); } addUsersToGroup((err) => { if (err) { console.error(err); process.exit(); } console.log('done'); process.exit(); }); }); async function addUsersToGroup(callback) { const user = require('./src/user'); const groups = require('./src/groups'); const batch = require('./src/batch'); // check if target group exists const exists = await groups.exists(groupName); if (!exists) { return callback(new Error('group does not exist')); } try { const now = Date.now(); await batch.processSortedSet('users:joindate', async (uids) => { const userData = (await user.getUsersData(uids)) .filter(u => u && u.postcount >= 10); await db.sortedSetAdd( `group:${groupName}:members`, userData.map(() => now), userData.map(u => u.uid) ); }, { batch: 500, }); const memberCount = await db.sortedSetCard(`group:${groupName}:members`); console.log('total count', memberCount); await db.setObjectField(`group:${groupName}`, 'memberCount', memberCount); await db.sortedSetAdd( 'groups:visible:memberCount', memberCount, groupName, ); callback(); } catch (err) { callback(err); } }
  • OKta + react native + OKta custom login page + okta login in offline

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    phenomlabP
    @ursyaathi You'd be better placed using SSO for that - see https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17484/a-more-standardised-sso-implementation/2?_=1709300209014
  • Navigating to specific post

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    Thanks!, I was able to debug the issue.
  • Targeted Multi-User tagging

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    crazycellsC
    @baris i know it is nothing urgent, but looking forward to having this addition https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions/issues/244
  • Hiding a widget in a custom page

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    Rui RamosR
    Thanks @baris that option worked like a charm.
  • Testing nodebb-plugin-sso-google

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    ww9riversW
    @baris Thank you for the quick fix! It works now.
  • Clean Up Popular Topics

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    @baris gotcha, i'll give this one a shot. TY!