General Discussion

@baris Thank you so much for your help. I'm running 3 instances of redis now and it seems to be working.

@chas Need more info... Run using ./nodebb dev and post any warnings or errors you get.

Alright, thanks guys. The user.isAdministrator function was what I was looking for.

@humanmadeaccount Use nodebb-plugin-buttons-galore text align is added in it

@bentael best way to secure a ticket now would be to win the plugin contest

We have a separate user management system where we want our own users to have the ability, via our admin pages, to create users on our NodeBB installation. Essentially it's a debating club for kids, and we want the parents (or schools) to create accounts on our current system, then be able to create logins for their kids on the NodeBB installation. What would be the best way to go about this? Would it require a custom plugin?

@julian Not a problem. It's back. Hope to find gold!

@baris now I understand.

@babaggeii ...simpler to write too.

@Xiph said: It'd probably be wise to take a backup of your database if you want to try it. Always a good thing to do when automated tools supposedly mess around with your data

@baris thank you! I will give this a try.

Cronjob sounds great. I would use the S3 to store the backup files. For backing up the site, I'd use 2 different solutions. Daily DB backup with Cronjob, and another one is instance snapshot. Installed NodeBB on a Docker instance, and what I need to do is that commit the instance once a week, output it as .tar file, store it somewhere reliable. For image assets, I prefer offshore storage like the S3, so the instance snapshot won't be really big in size..

Glad to hear. You might want to check your nginx is up to date as well. Nginx will still work with an older version, but it will act funny... Use this to get up to date: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#distributions

@Technowix Ya true But who knows the developers can surpirse us. But theme does not matter much. I just wish the platform gets a lot more awesome before next summer B-)

You'd need to modify the theme: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-lavender/blob/master/templates/topic.tpl#L125-L133 You'll also have to wire up some custom javascript to handle the clicking of the link as well.

Yes things get tougher when we get into the specifics of the licensing all of our dependent packages use. To make things easier, we use the GPLv3, which co-habitates well with other free/open-source licenses, but does preclude the use of it in a commecial/resold context.

@Technowix Ah ok, thanks very much.

Thank you so much. I'll try this one.

@Alex Disabling markdown didn't work so I then went ahead and removed the forum part from the URL and I'm able to save. After making the change, I'm still unable to get the wordpress portion to work. I don't see anywhere that will allow me to make the post into a nodebb topic.