@sdetweil There is documentation on how templates work in the benchpress repository - that is the templating engine NodeBB uses: https://github.com/benchpressjs/benchpressjs/tree/master/docs There is a link to the engine in getting started development docs (https://docs.nodebb.org/development/) but I admit that it's not intuitive. The documentation for working with included helpers and client-side modules is basically nonexistent though, I mostly just look at other plugins (quickstart is a good reference for common use cases) and ultimately just look at the code. For the included setting types you can see it here: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/tree/master/public/src/modules/settings

do I have to read the source for each object to learns its methods? Yes, you will have to read the source code to see what methods are available.

@phenomlab thanks.. I have the plugin working.. turn on moderation, set limit for reputation and number of posts. this will catch all those posts now, given a list of typical first user links our site, github, ... bypass moderation.. if no links or no links outside the list. otherwise into moderation as the default. now to build the admin for managing the list of 'good' urls now to learn ANOTHER language.. tpl.. ugh

thanks all.. admin disabled a plugin which was trying to send a notification to another system (discord) as part of posting message to bb topic