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  • mventures
    mventures
    mventures
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    Hi,
    I noticed both on the NodeBB forum, Sudonix forum, and mine also, there is no Search functionality. I would like this very much because I would like people to search for a past answer before asking for a new one. Maybe, I am looking at the wrong place, or do I need to activate it from admin?

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  • mventures mventures

    My apologies! I have found the Search field on NodeBB and your site. I just need to figure out how to get it on my site. Could it be because I have no posts yet?

    phenomlab
    phenomlab
    phenomlab
    wrote on
    #3

    @mventures Not quite - it’s because of this

    ff0a9849-5815-4c7a-853a-808fd325a779-image.png

    It’s installed, but not activated by default

    f6280a04-ace2-43a6-8e9a-4614efecba84-image.png

    Every time you install or uninstall a plugin, you need to rebuild NodeBB

    c638615a-4597-41f6-ad32-b552c8433c06-image.png

    f539df98-cb0c-4875-abf4-b61a60333ad5-image.png

    f311a7a0-05b7-4036-820d-85661410369b-image.png

    Confirm, and wait for NodeBB to restart

    bd46bebc-58c6-400a-a3f3-1bd09e17a5b0-image.png

    b1b5263e-f68a-4a34-99b6-5147979fb8af-image.png

    Now go back to your site

    You should see that Search has appeared

    39af2e82-15ec-4add-a758-f422b60c43ba-image.png

    I’ve done all of this for you, so this is for reference.

    Regds

    Mark Cutting also advises organisations as a Fractional CIO, Fractional CISO and Executive Advisor, helping boards improve technology governance, cyber resilience and executive decision making. Learn more at Gratmore Ltd

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  • mventures
    mventures
    mventures
    wrote on
    #2

    My apologies! I have found the Search field on NodeBB and your site. I just need to figure out how to get it on my site. Could it be because I have no posts yet?

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  • mventures mventures

    My apologies! I have found the Search field on NodeBB and your site. I just need to figure out how to get it on my site. Could it be because I have no posts yet?

    phenomlab
    phenomlab
    phenomlab
    wrote on
    #3

    @mventures Not quite - it’s because of this

    ff0a9849-5815-4c7a-853a-808fd325a779-image.png

    It’s installed, but not activated by default

    f6280a04-ace2-43a6-8e9a-4614efecba84-image.png

    Every time you install or uninstall a plugin, you need to rebuild NodeBB

    c638615a-4597-41f6-ad32-b552c8433c06-image.png

    f539df98-cb0c-4875-abf4-b61a60333ad5-image.png

    f311a7a0-05b7-4036-820d-85661410369b-image.png

    Confirm, and wait for NodeBB to restart

    bd46bebc-58c6-400a-a3f3-1bd09e17a5b0-image.png

    b1b5263e-f68a-4a34-99b6-5147979fb8af-image.png

    Now go back to your site

    You should see that Search has appeared

    39af2e82-15ec-4add-a758-f422b60c43ba-image.png

    I’ve done all of this for you, so this is for reference.

    Regds

    Mark Cutting also advises organisations as a Fractional CIO, Fractional CISO and Executive Advisor, helping boards improve technology governance, cyber resilience and executive decision making. Learn more at Gratmore Ltd

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  • mventures
    mventures
    mventures
    wrote on
    #4

    That’s awesome @phenomlab! Thank you. I can see it 🙂

    What did you mean by, “rebuild NodeBB”? And the whole rebuild happens by just clicking that “recycle” button?

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  • mventures mventures

    That’s awesome @phenomlab! Thank you. I can see it 🙂

    What did you mean by, “rebuild NodeBB”? And the whole rebuild happens by just clicking that “recycle” button?

    phenomlab
    phenomlab
    phenomlab
    wrote on
    #5

    @mventures Yes, exactly. The other icon will restart NodeBB whilst the first icon I referenced will rebuild (recompile) it.

    The huge strength of NodeBB over Flarum (for example) is that the code is precompiled, and called once at boot. PHP’s code has to repeatedly reload code from source making it much slower.

    Mark Cutting also advises organisations as a Fractional CIO, Fractional CISO and Executive Advisor, helping boards improve technology governance, cyber resilience and executive decision making. Learn more at Gratmore Ltd

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