[nodebb-plugin-42] custom nav items, footer, copyright html

bentael

https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-42

Chris

Was wondering when you were going to officially release it. Grats on your win

bentael

well, im still paranoid about it as it has some issues, and some of its features are hacky

finid

Just installed it, restarted the server (forever start app.js), but still can't see it in the ACP. Do I have to do something else for it to show up?

Edit: Never mind. Have to activate it, then clear the browser cache.

finid

@bentael

On clicking on it under Plugins, I get the page shown in this screen shot. And this happens with all the plugins I've installed, except the RSS plugin. Any ideas?

bentael

Away from keyboard, @planner hmm maybe something has changed in /admin/ routes, I'll investigate later tonight

julian

@planner After activating a plugin, you'll need to restart your NodeBB server so that the page will appear in the ACP.

xCausxn

I tried testing this on the lavender theme but for some reason the add links do not appear in the navbar ? Any ideas or is it just me

StuartH

@xCausxn you some times have to wait quite a long time for the effects to show on your site, sometimes hours

dove

@StuartH said:

@xCausxn you some times have to wait quite a long time for the effects to show on your site, sometimes hours

Or just clear the cache

bentael

@dove said:

@StuartH said:

@xCausxn you some times have to wait quite a long time for the effects to show on your site, sometimes hours

Or just clear the cache

I'm still investigating a better way to do that, hang on guys. will try to stabilize it with NodeBB 0.3.1

maniacmusic

@julian ugh... can't you automate that?

julian

It's something I'd like to address... except right now I have no idea how to do it. The problem lies in the fact that I only have one chance to add routes (like js/css/static routes) per plugin, and that's at app start. Enabling and disabling plugins requires adding and removing routes respectively, and I can't do that while the app is running.

There are some strategies, but I haven't had a decent enough block of time to actually get down and experiment

StuartH

@dove That has no effect unfortunately

bentael

@StuartH @dove @xCausxn @planner

pushed some major changes to this plugin just now, but i had to break backward compatibility, so you will loose your settings once you upgrade. if you have some large text entered in there, save it in a text file, then re-enter it after upgrade. it's at 0.2.0 now and you will need to npm install if you are git cloning the repo, if not, npm upgrade nodebb-plugin-42 should do the job.

give it a shot, let me know if you having more issues, activating still requires a restart, but saving the settings should reflect immediately, if not try another restart after saving. caching and minification processes are not very clear to me yet.

I will add an upgrade process soon so it won't break backward compatibility and won't pollute your databases with obsolete configs, probably with NodeBB 0.4.0 release.

StuartH

Thanks @bentael will try it today

bentael

@StuartH i pushed few more fixes to the -42 plugin at 0.2.5 now, once again, i broke backward compatibility. But I think I fixed why the footer code takes so long to show up.

DennisSun

I just upgraded the nodebb to the lastest version v0.4.3. It seems to me that the installation of plugin-42 will cause errors.

a_5mith

@DennisSun Isn't compatible with latest, I seem to recall the developer of that plugin not wanting to release it as it's a cheap hack. Which portion of that plugin did you want to use?

DennisSun

@a_5mith hi, i need to edit the htmls to add some analytics as well as SSO services in, which are not supported by the plugins.