Chapter 8. More Fun with Modules: Footers, Search Boxes, Who's Online, Wrappers, and More
In This Chapter
Setting login options
Displaying random images
Setting up search
Showing statistics
Displaying other sites on yours
Chapter 7 reviews the built-in Joomla modules, and this chapter covers the remaining modules, from Footer to Wrapper. In this chapter, you see how to use footers to place text at the bottom of all your pages, how to place search boxes anywhere so your users can search your site, how to place Who's Online boxes to display your site's current users, how to show current site statistics, and how to use wrappers to embed pages from other Web sites in your own site.
The Footer Module: Joomla's Copyright Notice
The Joomla Footer module appears at the bottom of every page by default, as you see in Figure 8-1.
Although you'd think that this module would allow you to set your own copyright text at the bottom of every page, that's not the case. Footer is designed only to display the Joomla copyright notice.
Figure 8-1. The Joomla Footer module.
If you open the Footer module for editing (choose Extensions
But if you're willing to be a little sneaky, you can set your own footer text by replacing the Joomla copyright notice. Joomla stores most text messages in its language directory, and the ...
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