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    @baris
    no, just I got an empty pull down menu when I clicked Topic Tools.

    Today I tried again, and got the pull down popolated.

    Strange....

  • Slick Theme - nodebb-plugin-recent-cards text color

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    @pichalite @PitaJ

    Thanks guys, that worked.

  • cannot load webtorrent in my plugin.

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    @pitaj thank you,it works well.

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    @julian There didn't appear to be a way of managing this number plus I assumed there are already lots of things node already does to modify this number.

    I wanted completely control of it, including the ability to "spend" it on things down the road.

  • Cannot access admin after installing plugin

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    @pitaj said in Cannot access admin after installing plugin:

    @panagiotis try running ./nodebb build again

    Hi @pitaj. Thanks it worked!

  • NodeBB libraries not accessible in plugin?

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    PitaJP

    Also, just FYI, the docs you used are the old docs, the new ones are at docs.nodebb.org

    You can open an issue at github.com/nodebb/docs if you wish for a change to be made

  • Style topics differently by category

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    Brass ManB

    fantastic! my codebase is much happier now

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    ayiyanA

    [root@bbs nodebb_develop]# tail -n 8 /etc/profile
    export OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="MTBINQ9JTjyY5m"
    export OSS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="Ru87oDgLzgBbBdoCqb0KbGHNRX6ao"
    export OSS_UPLOADS_HOST="http://nodebbs.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com"
    export OSS_UPLOADS_BUCKET="nodebbs"
    export OSS_DEFAULT_REGION="oss-cn-shanghai"
    export OSS_UPLOADS_PATH="/assets"

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  • How to set meta tag in plugin ?

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    barisB

    Starting with 1.6.0 you can use plugins.fireHook('filter:meta.getMetaTags', { req: req, data: data, defaultTags: defaultTags }, next);

    If you want to do it on 1.5.2 you can try the below using the the hook filter:topic.build.

    myPluign.onTopicBuild = function (hookData, callback) { hookData.res.locals.metaTags.push({ property: 'tags', content: 'abc, def' }); callback(null, hookData); };
  • Send hardcoded text as composer textfield data

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    @baris Could you explain how I can do to send text as if it were the editor so that the composer does not throw error that it enters more than 0 characters?

  • How to remove post submit restrictions?

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    @julian Cool, and... How can we do what you suggest to send text if we remove the textfield in the composer template?

  • First release pass nodebb-plugin-fileownership

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    ShardS

    There are a few methodology issue I have here right now. The biggest being that the upload hook fires before a post is posted. This means files that aren't uploaded ( edited out after uploading ) with the post get stored.

    I need to sort out how to move this to the post hook and process that instead. Learning curve and all.

    For the moment, this works well enough for the other work I need so I'll be more focused that way for a bit, but I expect to come back to this for enhancement shortly.

    If you have requests/feature ideas Add it to the issue tracker on bitbucket.

    Link Preview Image abquintic / nodebb-plugin-fileownership / issues — Bitbucket

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    (bitbucket.org)

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    Esteban ConstanteE

    Yep, ended up using posts.isMain function.

  • filter:uploadFile

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    ShardS

    I'm working on a plugin that filters out a specific file type and relocates them to a different folder.

    Everything works as I want except for two issues that I expect are approximately the same solution.

    Since uploadFile fires on all files, I need to do an early filter against the extension/mimetype and exit out on a non-match. When I do so, I am firing the callback with (null, data ) where data is the past object for the filter then returning. The resulting link that shows up in the message has a bad URL.

    Similarly, when it passes the extension check, it throws an exception due to the uploaded temp file being moved by my plugin.

    I assume in both cases this is an issue with what need to get sent back when the filter wraps up its business for the rest of the "upload" flow. Looking at uploads.js hasn't helped me parse it out.

    Looking at the imgur plugin has me more confused than understanding.

    Anyone know what needs to occur here?

  • Commission: Update Plugin to 1.5 and Tweak

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    @Giggiux said in Commission: Update Plugin to 1.5 and Tweak:

    @Michael-Pfaff I have no clue on how the plugin works, but from the error stack-trace you're trying to use a method .replace on an undefined object, in the file nodebb-plugin-dice-bot/src/dice.js at line 84. Try to see if .replace() is called there, and check with the debugger why the object it's been called on doesn't exist.
    Edit: I think it has something to do with the "create post hook", or something like that.

    Thanks! This gives me a lead at least. I'll take a look and see if I can figure some shit out. 👍

  • Getting specific categories through the API

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    sebastian-marinescuS

    @baris thanks, that is exactly what I looked for:

    var userProvidedCatIds = widget.data.catIds; if (!userProvidedCatIds || userProvidedCatIds === '0') { categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege('cid:0:children', widget.uid, 'find', render); } else { categories.getCategories(userProvidedCatIds.split(',').map(Number), widget.uid, render); } function render(err, data) { app.render('categories.tpl', { categories: data, relative_path: nconf.get('relative_path') }, function (err, html) { widget.html = html; callback(err, html); }); }

    Is there any doc-site / rtfm for the JS-API or do we have to look at the source to find appropriate methods and their parameters?

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    @PitaJ thanks for the info 👍

  • nodebb torrents tracker

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    julianJ

    @yariplus is saying it's possible to create such a plugin, not that he would do it 😄

  • Plugin headstart guide/Help

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    Onigbinde Ayomide SnrO

    Hey guys. I recently picked up NodeBB (needed it for a client) and it was (still is) awesome. However, I need help with Plugin development. I could have sat down and dissect the docs (which seems scatterd BTW), but I am super duper busy. . . And I wish to develop the plugin ASAP. So I need a link or anything (blog posts, Youtube videos, books, etc) to get me started. A blog tutorial that outlines the plugin dev process and probably builds a sample plugin would be super helpful....

    And BTW, my Nodejs skills is about 6 on a scale of 10, so a dummy approach would be highly appreciated.