CHAPTER 8
Modules
In Chapter 7, you learned about menus and their menu item types. In this chapter, you’ll learn about the different types of modules and their uses.
Module Manager
So what is a module? Simply put, it is a collection of several related items. For example, a module can be a collection of any of the following:
- Menus
- Popular articles or related articles
- Advertisements, banners, or random images
The main benefit of collecting several related items in a module is to gain better control. For example, you can make a module become invisible on the web site (which would be easier than unpublishing the individual items), apply a CSS style ...
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