Are there any plugins or other composers where you can create a set of fields/parameters that have to be entered to post, in an attempt to create like an ebay like listing where they have to enter name, descriptions, price, photos, etc?

Hi guys,

I am having an issue with the 'nodebb-widget-essentials' plugin. When i load my site it immediately starts receiving 503's for socket.io issues. I can disable all plugins and the site runs fine, then as i turn them back on one by one, its only when the nodebb-widget-essentials plugin is enabled when it starts getting the error. All other plugins are working as expected. Has anyone seen this or have any ideas on how to fix? I know I am being pushed away from Heroku, but just trying to figure this out before bailing on this solution altogether to migrate hosts. Any help would be appreciated.

I get that same WebSocket error.

Thanks guys, I might give this a go. It's stepping backwards, but should allow me to go forward quicker afterwards. Appreciate all of the support!

Digital Ocean seems to be the way to go, is it worth switching? Heroku costs nothing at the moment with a single dyno, but I dont want to go too much farther with this if all of the support is in Linux.

The one-off dyno didnt seem to do much, but what I did was actually publish the new theme (copy) to my npm account and then just list the dependency in the root package.json and then did another commit/push and now it lists it in the admin screen. I'm curious, how is everyone else making all of these changes without having to do all of this stuff?

Thanks for the reply @julian. I made sure the names were unique in all of the json files from my copied version of vanilla. I did the add (it forced me to use -f since the files were listed in .gitignore), but they were added, committed, then pushed. I then restarted the dyno to restart node and the theme isnt listed in the Installed Themes section, would it appear there?

@julianlam any ideas? I am going to try to update the .gitignore file later to try that, unless that is advised against.

Would editing the ignore file be the best option, what is the main reason those are in place? I can try to publish my edits to github and then npm, but after they are on npm as a package do I need to then install it, not sure that makes sense. If i cd into the theme folder and 'git init' I then have to setup the remote repositories again (right?) because they only exist in the nodebb folder, but if I connect to my Heroku again in their do I just push heroku master and the theme will be uploaded to my account. I am trying to do as much research on my own, but I am just not sure how to edit any other files besides the root files in nodebb and have them pushed.

So i followed the directions and created a copy of the vanilla theme and edited the json files as well as made some less css changes. Now I am new to all of this (especially git) so how am I able to push this theme to Heroku and activate this theme and make changes (git commit, etc) afterwards? Sorry for the noobish questions, but I feel a quick step by step and Ill be good to go!

Sorry guys, I am new to this and a little confused. I can make changes to the tpl and less files in the nodebb-theme-vanilla, but I am unsure of how to actually push those changes to my Heroku repository. Sorry for being a noob, I am learning alot! @psychobunny