It has been added back to the main template in Persona https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8790/categories-tpl-category-tpl-topics-tpl-and-motd-in-persona

@yariplus said in Composer has no text alignment?:

Strikethrough is my favorite feature.


 

Why would you want text here?

 

Left-aligned text is the best.

 

See how hard it was for you to demonstrate that? That's why...

Well unless the founders of NodeBB thought it a genius idea to cripple the flexibility of the product so that no one would assume that out of the box it is good for anything other than simple text.

Basically, you're saying that if anyone wants to build anything besides a simple text forum they should look elsewhere?

This is a crazy question, so I apologize, but what if I wanted to post something other than walls and blobs of text like -- an image? How would I center that?

Is this accurate? The text editor is simply bold, italic and strikethrough (for some reason)?

@exodo that helps. Thank you for the response.

I can't find a single document that describes how to upgrade a theme...

Do I need to just uninstall/reinstall? Will that get me the latest theme?

I uninstalled NodeBB to start over fresh. I dropped the mongo DB and did an rm -R on the nodebb directory.

Then I git cloned the latest version with git clone -b v1.x.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb

Then I built a new mongoDB and tried to start nodebb. I got an error indicating it was already running on 4567. So I ran the command line setup and built it on 7654.

So now I have a working version running on 7654 and a broken version answering on 4567 with no DB attached to it.

how do I fix this?

Well, I wiped and started over. Now it appears the latest nodebb import plugin https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import doesn't appear to be supported by 1.0.3.

Sigh... I can't win.

It has been added back to the main template in Persona https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8790/categories-tpl-category-tpl-topics-tpl-and-motd-in-persona

@yariplus I'll check it tonight and let you know. Thank you for taking the time to fix this.

Honestly I don't know how to update a template though...

OK guys, this is literally the only thing holding us back from shut down our dev install and migrating for real this week. Is there any way I can do it myself?

I see it's in the works to be added back but who knows how long this will take?

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/4646

@pichalite @Ben-Lubar @yariplus

julianlam created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed Reintroduce widget areas to Persona #4646

In the Vanilla theme you can add widgets to the categories.tpl, category.tpl and topics tpl templates right there in the admin panel.

The specific widget I want to use is MOTD. It's very flexible and allows you to place anything from simple text to HTML.

Does anyone know how to get that capability when I select Persona as the active theme?