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The items that surround the main content on your site are called modules. They are most often located to the right and left and sometimes can also be found above and below your articles or other site features.
The most common type of module (and the one that most frequently needs modifying) is called a custom module. The folowing tutorial shows step by step how to modify a custom module that is already a part of your site.
- Log into your administrator side
- Using the top menus go to Extensions > Module Manager
- On the right side (below the main control buttons) are four dropdown select boxes which allow you to sort the items in list of modules. Use the select type dropdown and chose mod_custom. The page will change to show only custom modules.
- You can now view the name, status, access and placement of all of the modules. When searching for the correct module you'd like to modify its probably easiest to look to both the location (right, left, etc..) as well as the name.
- Once you've located the module click on the title to open it for editing. There are a number of variables available for modification but its most likely you will want to leave these alone and modify the look and content of the module. To do this scroll to the bottom of the page, there you will see a WYSIWYG editor just like any piece of content. Make any changes you'd like within this editor and then scroll back to the top of the page and select save when you are finished.
If you would like to modify things like the title, location or pages that the module appear on below is a description of how each of these variables work.
Details
- Title - is shown as a header if show title is selected and is used for sorting on the administrative side.
- Show Title - yes/no toggle determines whether the title above is shown on the front-end or not.
- Enabled - must be set to yes in order for the module to appear on the front-end of the site.
- Position - a dropdown which allows you to chose where on your site the module will appear.
- Order - if there are more than one module published to the same position the order will determine how they appear on the site (for columns order is top to bottom, for rows it is left to right)
- Access Level - if your site uses registration or if you want to publish a module for administrators to see while testing you can change the access level. Public means everyone can see it, registered means you can only see it after loggin in, and administrator means that only administrators can see it. There is not currently an access level for allowing only un-registered users to see a module - this is handled by different means.
Parameters
- Module Class Suffix - some templates allow for auto-styling of modules by entering in a word into this field, see your template details for more information about what module class suffixes are available to you.
Menu Assignment
- Menus - provides a radio button choice between all, none and select. All will select all of the menus below, none will cause the module to show on no menu items and select give you the ability to use ctrl+click or apple+click to select which of the menus you'd like the module to appear on.
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