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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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    phenomlabP

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

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    Reply by email functionality

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    Hello, I'd like to enable reply by email.

    I found this:
    https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-emailer-mandrill

    But it's not really maintained anymore. Is there any solution for this?

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    Questions about the setup for community.nodebb.org

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    D

    @baris Awesome!

  • D

    Random profile backgrounds?

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    I found the answer to this. It's in the settings:

    Admin > Settings > Uploads > Profile Covers > Default Cover Images

  • SimosS

    Redirect after login

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    barisB

    Link Preview Image 1.11.0 Breaking Changes

    We are dropping support for NodeJS v6.x in 1.11.0. Please see the following issues for breaking changes to plugins and themes. https://github.com/NodeBB/Node...

    favicon

    NodeBB Community (community.nodebb.org)

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    unread count not updating

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    this has me stumped?
    the web socket connection is ok, and everything else on the site works just fine. but I cant get the unread count to update unless I do a manual page refresh?

    my forum is running the latest v1.11.0, with a Postgres database. Im using the Persona them, with a custom child theme. (maybe the issue is there somewhere?)

    any pointers of where to look to debug would be great. its not a show stopper, more of an annoyance really

    here's the link to my support forum

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    Less files not compiling

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    C

    @youhosi Following your response did an upgrade and don't know how but all the themes are working now. Minus my custom theme that I guess it has some bad code in it.

    Thank you.

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    Settings up NodeBB on a subdomain

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    @PitaJ thanks. I need to install it on Heroku and it doesn't have nginx now. I know I have a long road ahead, but I think I found the direction.

  • BarryB

    Where are users stored?

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    PitaJP

    You created a mongodb database user, not a NodeBB user. Creating NodeBB users is more complicated.

  • N

    Administrator badge not shows

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    N

    I am trying to show administrator badge without success, but moderator badge shows ok. Are there any constraint? Of course, I was selected in my profile, administrator, moderatos, and both one.

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    User's last online date not updated

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    barisB

    This is fixed on master and will be available in 1.11.1. Related gh issues, https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7086 https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7085

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    1.10.1 → 1.10.2 libvips + whole X server dependency?

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    I was able to get sharp working by simply building it locally.

    npm install --build-from-source sharp

    The only thing missing on my minimal centos 7 image, was g++.

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    Images href link has gone in v1.11.x

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    julianJ

    🔜 -- no launches Friday, Monday earliest

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    Invalid CSRF Token

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    @phit said in Invalid CSRF Token:

    for the record for people finding this via search, for apache2 you have to set this somewhere in your nodebb vhost configuration

    Thank you very much. This really made my day !!!

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    Problems with login after upgrading to 1.11.0

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    @FrankM said in Probmes with login after upgrading to 1.11.0:

    But in config.json i have http://...... Edit it to https:// solved the problem.
    Before version 1.11.0 i don't have this problem.

    Thanks, that solved the problem for me as well, changing http to https. And as for you, I did not have this problem before 1.11.0

    But then an other problem turned up: "Invalid CSRF Token"

    Pls see this link https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9222/invalid-csrf-token

    My solution for this was what is written in the end (I use Apache2)

    for the record for people finding this via search, for apache2 you have to set this somewhere in your nodebb vhost configuration
    with ssl

    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"

    without ssl

    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "http"

    you might have to enable mod_headers to do so!

    So upgrading to 1.11.0 gave me a problem that had to be solved in 2 steps. First by changing in config.json, then I had to modify Apache2 settings.

  • SimosS

    Widget only on some sections

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    SimosS

    @PitaJ i've made a persona child theme mantaining the same widget :

    { name: "Categories Sidebar", template: "categories.tpl", location: "sidebar" }, { name: "Category Sidebar", template: "category.tpl", location: "sidebar" }, { name: "Topic Sidebar", template: "topic.tpl", location: "sidebar" }, { name: "Categories Header", template: "categories.tpl", location: "header" }, { name: "Category Header", template: "category.tpl", location: "header" }, { name: "Topic Header", template: "topic.tpl", location: "header" }, { name: "Categories Footer", template: "categories.tpl", location: "footer" }, { name: "Category Footer", template: "category.tpl", location: "footer" }, { name: "Topic Footer", template: "topic.tpl", location: "footer" }

    but i can't see other's than linked screenshot

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    Error after upgrading to 1.11.0 [Solved]

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    H

    @baris said in Error after upgrading to 1.11.0:

    NodeBB is on version 1.1.0 so the command should use v1.1.x.

    1.11.0 worked fine for me.

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    Only admin account can upload non-image files

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    Q

    Worked it out.

    In the admin panel:

    Manage>Privileges

    then tick the 'upload files' box for registered users.

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    Missing logs - only 2 days of logs

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    Okay, I'll also look for bugs. I think this happens when I either build, stop, or start from the command line.

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    Admins can see all signatures

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    D

    Maybe a permission to activate the setting?

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    Digest emails not getting sent

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    Darn, that makes debugging difficult. I guess I'll file a bug with the errors that stopped the digest send.

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