Hi, I've recently installed XOOPS 2.0.13.1 and am playing about with it.

I want a news block or module on the home page. Currently I've installed News 1.4 which looks good.

Is there any way to have the recent news as a block, but also with the intro text underneath each title? Mine only seems to have the titles, so the news is in a list rather than summary of recent items...

I know there's the option of using Spotlight, but then from what I can see, you only get to 'promote' 1 story.


Also, if I choose to have the news module as the default home page module, I don't know how to control the order of it. In this example, the news would be displayed below any other blocks I have on the home page, no matter what weighting I give the blocks - tried giving them a large value in the hope they'd go below the news.

Is it neccessary to manually edit the config files in order to change this order?


Thanks in advance for your help...

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Check out the configuration controls when you select edit the recent news block.

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No. You need to edit the theme.html file. Look for <{$xoops_contents}> it is after the code for center blocks and move it before the code for the center blocks.

Thanks for the quick response I'll check it out...

I've discovered some problems with News 1.4 (at least on my installation)


Here's what I've done so far:

- I created a couple of test news categories and stories so that I could try out the formatting of the recent news block.
- I then go to the blocks section and centre this block and enable it.
- Checking the home page results in the recent test news articles being displayed as expected in the block.
- I then go to the blocks page and edit the recent news block. There are plenty of options here, and it looks just what I need :)

Thing is, when I make a change here, and submit it, the recent news block vanishes from the home page, and the only way to get it to re-appear is to update the news module, which then will obviously reset the settings.


I've done some testing, and here's what I've noticed:
- The news articles are still viewable when you visit the news module - and they're editable as usual.
- The same thing happens with the Top News block
- The Random News block appears to work normally (although the functionality of random news isn't as big - not as many options)


I've been able to get some things to display in the Top/Recent News blocks. To do this, I had to have spotlight enabled and the Display option set to "Tabbed" - it doesn't work with "Classical" and if you disable spotlight, there's nothing displayed.

This might explain why the Random News block appears to work, as there are no settings for classical/tabbed display.



I'm using xoops-2.0.13.1 and the news module is version 1.4

Have you come across this one before?


I'm keen to get this to work as I think I've finally found the module that does what I need!


Thanks in advance...