NodeBB: The global Search option

[mventures]

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?

[phenomlab]

@mventures Not quite - it’s because of this

It’s installed, but not activated by default

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

Confirm, and wait for NodeBB to restart

Now go back to your site

You should see that Search has appeared

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

Regds

[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]

@mventures Not quite - it’s because of this

It’s installed, but not activated by default

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

Confirm, and wait for NodeBB to restart

Now go back to your site

You should see that Search has appeared

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

Regds

[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]

@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.