Nodebb plugins list and versions compatibility
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Hello everyone !
I am setting up a nodebb forum and I really enjoy it. it's fast, smooth, good looking, minimal and powerful but... the third party plugins are very few or not well organized ? Or maybe I missed something
Crawling the web I found this website but nowhere a clear list of plugins available with versions compatibility. I found a lot of old topics of old plugins but most of them are not maintained for years.
So if you have tips, for at least these 2 extensions, I would be more thant happy :- Audio player for uploaded audio files (mp3, ogg, wav)
- Composer extension like bbcode (I come from an old phpbb forum with cool defaults text formatting features)
Thank you and sorry if I am offtopic here
N.
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Hello everyone !
I am setting up a nodebb forum and I really enjoy it. it's fast, smooth, good looking, minimal and powerful but... the third party plugins are very few or not well organized ? Or maybe I missed something
Crawling the web I found this website but nowhere a clear list of plugins available with versions compatibility. I found a lot of old topics of old plugins but most of them are not maintained for years.
So if you have tips, for at least these 2 extensions, I would be more thant happy :- Audio player for uploaded audio files (mp3, ogg, wav)
- Composer extension like bbcode (I come from an old phpbb forum with cool defaults text formatting features)
Thank you and sorry if I am offtopic here
N.
All nodebb plugins are published to npm so you can search there. https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=nodebb-plugin.
https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-audio-embed this should work for audio embeds, let me know if it doesn't.
The bbcode plugin probably needs to be tested with the latest version of nodebb but it's pretty simple https://github.com/adarqui/nodebb-plugin-bbcode
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All nodebb plugins are published to npm so you can search there. https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=nodebb-plugin.
https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-audio-embed this should work for audio embeds, let me know if it doesn't.
The bbcode plugin probably needs to be tested with the latest version of nodebb but it's pretty simple https://github.com/adarqui/nodebb-plugin-bbcode
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Heyhey,
I just came here for a similar question. I just installed v4.0.2 locally via docker compose and the list of extensions in the admin panel is rather small. Also some are listed but i can not install them "Unable to install plugin – only plugins whitelisted by the NodeBB Package Manager can be installed via the ACP".Also interesting plugins like "custom pages" seem to be not maintained for several years.
My doubt is that by using the latest version a lot of extensions will not be supported and therefore the extension-ecosystem is rather small. WDYT?
All the best,
Florian -
This is one of the major weaknesses I've observed in the NodeBB environment since I recently started using it and being used to Xenforo.
Currently there are many plug-ins that are still compatible, but for whatever reason they do NOT show up in the installation function from the ACP. You are still forced to go out and manually look for plug-ins and then filter through and figure out yourself if they are compatible.
I know in many ways this is outside the scope of what the developers can control, but it makes it hard on someone that is just starting up a NodeBB site on 4.0.2 and finding minimal plug-ins that can be installed. In many ways, this will be a detriment to the adoption of NodeBB.
No, I don't know what the answer is... there are many smarter people than me out there. But the fact is, it does need to be addressed in some manner if you are going to have a link to installable plug-ins from the ACP.And I'm far from someone wanting to trash NodeBB. I currently run 3 sites on it.
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This is one of the major weaknesses I've observed in the NodeBB environment since I recently started using it and being used to Xenforo.
Currently there are many plug-ins that are still compatible, but for whatever reason they do NOT show up in the installation function from the ACP. You are still forced to go out and manually look for plug-ins and then filter through and figure out yourself if they are compatible.
I know in many ways this is outside the scope of what the developers can control, but it makes it hard on someone that is just starting up a NodeBB site on 4.0.2 and finding minimal plug-ins that can be installed. In many ways, this will be a detriment to the adoption of NodeBB.
No, I don't know what the answer is... there are many smarter people than me out there. But the fact is, it does need to be addressed in some manner if you are going to have a link to installable plug-ins from the ACP.And I'm far from someone wanting to trash NodeBB. I currently run 3 sites on it.
@Astro-What we shifted the responsibility to the plugin developers to clear compatibility with newer versions of NodeBB, which unfortunately means there are fewer plugins shown since many plugins are mainly stable and don't need updates.
Bit of a catch-22, but the other alternative is that we don't do that, we get lots of plugins that show up in the plugin list, and 99% of them are incompatible and completely bork your NodeBB.
That's a worse alternative.
Anyway, if you know which plugins are actually working, please just open up a new topic on this site about it! We can then just make a PR to the plugin and tell the author that someone tested it against v4 (or whatever)
