Chapter 7. Fun with Modules: Advertisements, Archives, Banners, Custom HTML, and More
In This Chapter
Understanding modules
Working with ads
Archiving articles
Providing breadcrumbs
Making a Custom HTML module
Adding an RSS feed to your site
Joomla modules are those great embedded applications that appear around the edges of your pages. The newsflash (see Chapter 3), which rotates news stories on the front page, is a module. So is the poll that appears on the front page. So are the very advertisements that can appear on Joomla pages.
In fact, even menus are modules in Joomla.
The chapters in Parts I and II of this book provide a tour of content handling in Joomla. This chapter and the next one, however, cover modules.
All about Modules
You handle modules in Joomla with Module Manager, which you open by choosing Extensions
This tool is the main one we use in this chapter and Chapter 8.
Figure 7-1. The default Joomla Module Manager.
To work with an individual module, click its name in Module Manager; a customization page for that module opens.
Here are the modules in the default Joomla installation, arranged alphabetically:
Advertisement | Polls |
Archive | Popular |
Banners | Random Image |
Breadcrumbs | Related Items |
Example Pages | Search |
Feed Display | Sections |
Footer | Statistics |
Joomla! Stuff | Syndication |
Key Concepts | Top Menu |
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