New projekt! Use NodeBB as base and skip Wordpess!

[Jenkler]

@julian and @psychobunny What do you think about this.

I have a few customers where I use Wordpress as a base for their homepages. Would it be possible to use Nodebb for creating webbpages as a CMS?

As I see it

• NodeBB is a lot faster and better than Wordpress in loadtimes
• It is possible to disable menues and have member areas only
• The community is great
• I see we have plugins like nodebb-plugin-custom-pages that would make this possible
• Styles and template support exists

If you wanted to fix a webpage, how would you do it with NodeBB? It would be nice with some tips here!

[Jenkler]

@psychobunny

I have made a custom page to

http://dev.web.nodebb.se/hem

How can I fix so I get an custom page on path / ???

http://dev.web.nodebb.se <-- Unable to fix this

[lulzdev]

custom pages
Me too.

[Jenkler]

As you can see on the webpage http://dev.web.nodebb.se I only have the /path issue

This is great news, we can use NodeBB for everything YEAH !!!!

[lulzdev]

my custom pages problem got solved here:
Error thread

Does it solve yours?

[Jenkler]

But i want to have a custom page at /, Is that possible ?

[lulzdev]

@rbeer said:

@lulzdevlol

This made my page work, the / is only missing from the setup page. It is in the actual path.

[Jenkler]

I think that you misunderstand me

I want a custom page at the root level

www.yourdomain.com/

Not

www.yourdomain.com/<random path>/

@psychobunny <-- Is that possible?

[rbeer]

@Jenkler
I think you are looking for https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage

[lulzdev]

i'd looked at that plugin as well, but custom homepage is currently incompatible yes?

[rbeer]

Well, it's outdated in terms of missing the nbbpm field in package.json, therefore not showing up in the forums plugin list.

But it should work, when you install it manually.

All you have to do is:

• install the plugin npm install nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage,
• fill the homepage.tpl with widgets (ACP),
  
• set your homepage to the plugins route.
  

Done.

[Jenkler]

Cool, I will try this out

@psychobunny : https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage <-- Could you update this to v0.8.0 ?

Why not have a plugin for both pages and homepage ?

Another question, any good plugins out therre for contact mail forms?

[lulzdev]

@rbeer said:

Well, it's outdated in terms of missing the nbbpm field in package.json, therefore not showing up in the forums plugin list.

But it does work, when you install it manually.

All you have to do is:

• install plugin npm install nodebb-plugin-custom-homepage,
• fill the homepage.tpl with widgets (ACP),
• set your homepage to the plugins route.

Done.

Oh, no! other people get to use it? lol, I've been trying to manual install and it doesnt work. Doesnt show up in my list of installed plugins. It doesnt show there? I might be able to use it if it is supposed to be missing there.

[Jenkler]

Works great for me, just what i needed Wohoo

Check it out here: http://dev.web.nodebb.se

This is a good start, the things we need next is

1. Mailer plugin that support google smtp and other smtp servers with ssl
2. An mail form like this https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

If we manage to fix this, then we can use NodeBB for our customers instead of wordpress for webpages

[lulzdev]

The jealousy is real!

I checked the homepage in ACP and the widget spaces are not there. Tried installing again, but the plugin only shows in the server folder; not in the list of plugins or the list of installed plugins.

[PitaJ]

@lulzdevlol That's very odd. Are you sure it installed into the node_modules directory?

It works on my site just fine.

[lulzdev]

Node_modules, yes. I also cannot seem to update via reload or restart to nodebb .8.2. Do i need to install it before custom pages or? Cant figure out why i cant install it.

(Removing an entire directory in ubuntu should not be so hard.)

[lulzdev]

which node_modules is custom-homepage supposed to be installed into? there is one in my account and one in the nodebb directory and the node_modules in the nodebb directory will not allow an install of anything, even with sudo.

[Jenkler]

@lulzdevlol said:

node_modules

You need to install it to /node_modules/ (The root of NodeBB)

Sounds like you have a permission error

Just
cd node_modules/
npm install pkgname

[PitaJ]

@Jenkler

No no no, don't cd into node_modules before running npm install, it will install into node_modules automatically.

It sounds like your permissions are messed up. Try killing all Node processes and then running sudo chown -R $USER on the NodeBB directory.