@3malg @baris

User id is stored in app.user.uid - app.uid is always undefined.
Not sure whether this has changed over the years but this thread appeared when I googled something like "nodebb find out if user is logged in" - so might help someone else.

@teh_g thanks dude. I've been doing a bit of bing ads but to generate a reasonable amount of traffic (in cryptocurrency) costs about 25p per click - which would get quite expensive at the end of the month and there's no revenue from the site yet.

Twitter is being a bit slow too seeing as I have < 100 followers.

Hi All,

So I've got my awesome NodeBB forum up and running. Thank you nodebb developers - love the project.

I've written some blog posts, created some discussion topics, done some bits on the twitters.

However, Im not getting much traffic from Google or other search engines.

What is the best way to really start a forum off?

Any help or feedback would be most welcome:
cryptcointrader.com

@pitaj Im also searching for how to get the current uid for use in a plugin hook method.

@pitaj ah that was it - that must have been set before I selected the weekly digest by default setting.

@pichalite said in Custom Homepage: Recent + Categories:

Yes. Create a plugin to add recent topics data to categories route. Modify the theme template to show this data.

Could you add just a little more detail to this?
I have a custom homepage and Im trying to add a list of categories using:
<!-- IMPORT categories.tpl -->

But it just displays: No new posts.

Do I have to hook into something to add the category data?

@pitaj thanks - it turns out that the emails are being sent to registered users - however for some reason I am excluded from the list (as administrator).

Hi,
Im trying to add a list of categories to my custom homepage template using:

<h1>homepage header</h1>
<!-- IMPORT categories.tpl -->

however - instead of a list, it just outputs:

No new posts.

Im using a custom theme based on persona. The h1 tag renders fine..

Any help would be appreciated.
I suspect I need to add in the categories data in somewhere.. but can't find any documentation on this..

Joe

@julian @psychobunny Did this get fixed? Does the current sitemap file work with Web master tools etc?

same issue - any answers?

Hi Julian,

Thanks for that.
I did find the quickstart repo eventually.
Hope this helps others.
Cheers,
Joe

Re: NodeBB broken after installing a theme!

Can someone fix the documentation on how to create a new theme?

There's no mention of the required plugin.json file!

No mention of how to create an NPM package, version it and install it.

No mention of how to debug it (eg ./nodebb dev or build..) if something goes wrong.
And there were no frontend error messages to tell me the build wasn't working - just no updates!!!!

I've just wasted an afternoon following the documentation to the letter and wondering why it doesn't work.

Not a great experience for someone new to nodebb.

I do think its an awesome project though (other than above).

Joe