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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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    barisB

    Quick start plugin has an example on how to add a new api route https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-quickstart/blob/master/library.js#L40-L76.

    The hooks that are fired client side are for client side code in plugins. If you want to pass data from the client to the server you have two options.

    Create an api route like in quick start plugin Create a new socket event listener on the server side and use socket.emit() client side. Example here
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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.

  • Google Recaptcha v3 not working

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    @julian said in Google Recaptcha v3 not working:

    As far as I know ReCAPTCHA v3 should be working, I'll let @bentael know if there's been a change.

    Fine, thanks.

    @oplik0 said in Google Recaptcha v3 not working:

    v3 is not just "a better reCAPTCHA" and it is not replacing v2.

    v3 only offers "invisible" reCAPTCHA, but even if Spam Be Gone supported that (it doesn't yet) it still wouldn't work because it passes different data.
    reCAPTCHA v2 is binary - either user is a robot or not.
    v3 doesn't just pass "true||false" but instead passes a score from 0.0 to 1.0 and it's up to the application to determine what score is a success. It also never shows user a challenge as it's not supposed to interrupt the user in any way.

    So to sum it up: for Spam Be Gone to support v3 would mean changing the way it handles reCAPTCHA and I'm not even sure if it's a good idea. v3 is supposed to continuously chceck if user is a bot without interruptions, so it's best used for frequent user actions like posting or login, not for things like registration that happen once per user and it's not a big deal if it interrupts user with a challenge. So I'd say it'd be better for Spam Be Gone to extend its functionally to use v3 on login and posting, and leave v2 on the registration page.

    That convinced me 🙂 Thanks a lot.
    Unfortunately I'm not a developer and do not know how to develop a plugin, but I'll highly appreciate if it's developed by anyone (NodeBB team or another mate).

  • How to switch off Italic in Signatures

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    barisB

    You can use the custom css tab in the ACP.

    .topic .post-signature { font-style: normal; }
  • Upload of .ico and .exe

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    You were right about the nginx 😉

    The ico issue persists though, recently upgraded to 1.12.2 and uploading ico files still fails despite whitelisting them in the extensions field.

    After disabling the isImage check (in src/controllers/uploads.js), then it works flawlessly. I suppose this isn't a big issue since we don't need the size checks and all that stuff on image uploads.

    But it would be nice if uploading .ico files could work without having to edit the source.

    Thank you

  • NodeBB Sendgrid Reply-by-email Integration

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    This article on SendGrid is helpful. You do need to set up a separate MX record on a subdomain (or other domain) for inbound "parse" replies.

  • Nodebb stops working due to plugin activation

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    barisB

    If you are on nodebb 1.12.2 you should use the version of db search in your package.json. 4.0.6 is for nodebb 1.13.0 which isn't released yet.

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    julianJ

    'tis fixed.

  • Recent cards installed but can not showing

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    Solved.

    Plugin config issue.

    Default setting was to display posts from 'Registered Users Only'... meaning I couldn't see the cards for topics I had created.

    Weird though... should have been a couple of cards from other users, but they didn't display until I changed that setting.

  • NodeBB: Search Bar Widget Error

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    I have enabled the plugin. Is there any issues related to plugin version or the search is database(mongo/redis) dependent? Need help.

  • Reply button not working (all browsers): help

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    Solved.

    Searched around the forum, found this thread.

    Composer plugin was disabled for some reason.

    Activated & rebuilt NodeBB.

    All working.

    😰 😅

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    Cannot upvote this enough!!

  • forgot password email form

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    I've read this and this and I've validated my config.json url property is correct (that URL, if pasted into a browser properly reverse proxies through Apache to nodebb)

    Is there some other setting that could be affecting that?

  • Stuck a google webmaster Verfication

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    julianJ

    The DNS method is the quickest way to verify a website's ownership. What didn't work?

  • Convert NodewBB to app

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    oplik0O

    I don't think there is. You can get some help for making NodeBB an installable PWA here - but I haven't tested it to see if notifications actually work.

    Edit: I found this Android app template, but it's not supported by it's author anymore and apparently at least a little broken on Android versions above 8.

  • ios 1.13.0 dark mode CSS codes

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    crazycellsC

    Hi,

    We would like to add some CSS code to our forum, so that when someone is using ios in dark mode, our forum will run as "night mode"...

    We have this code, we have added some in it, but it is missing some key elements and it is not practical to copy paste whole night mode codes of the forum in it...

    so is there a code that you can suggest, so when people use dark mode, it will activate regular night mode function of the forum?
    Thanks...

    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { body { ... } }
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    Re: Is there a way to bulk purge deleted posts?

    Same old topic, hoping there is a way now?

  • Broken layout on community.nodebb.org

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    oplik0O

    Are you using a non-default skin? I noticed that most of them are broken here.

  • Access Control Allow Origin

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    How to set access control allow origin and access control allow origin regular expression from admin settings. Have been trying using "*". But its not working. Need help.

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    I see that I had to execute ./nodebb build in the container. I am guessing that it is because after removing the container, the build directory was gone and needed to be rebuilt, which tells me I have to put a build command on every container startup. This is not very optimal. I am hoping at some point in the future we can have a more hands-off docker-friendly deployment (like with env vars and all).

  • Need to change login link to some other route

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    GnanaPrakash RathinamG

    I dont see a way to disable login under Settings -> User, using NodeBB version 1.12.2

  • Nodebb custom theme git push

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    PitaJP

    You should have the theme in it's own git repository, then pull and link that repository into node_modules when you deploy.