I have just purchased the latest Inspire 10 theme from the www.insraq.me/en/ website, and after following the installation and setup instructions, I am un-able to get the drop down menu's to work with my latest Xoops 2.4.5 installation.

Also, I have another 2 questions:

1. How do I get the same exact color theme (the bottom part below the drop down menu)?

2. How can I slow down the slideshow to atleast few seconds and not right away, or how can I make the slideshow not go to next slide, until the user clicks the left or right arrow to move on to next slide?

I thought that after I would purchase the theme, that my Xoops 2.4.5 website would look just the same as the demo site on the www.insraq.me, with drop down menu's and color theme, plus the slideshow working without any problem, but it seems that it does not work the way the demo site is set up. I also thought that there would be an option somewhere on how to edit the drop down menu, and if there is no options, can I edit some of my Inspire 10 Premium theme files to make the drop down menu work on the theme?

The demo site url by the way is: http://insraq.me/client/demo/index.php?xoops_theme_select=inspire10


Please help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance.

How do I disable / edit the banned words in the forum use?

The problem:

I used the word identity in my forum posting rules post, and it shows the word as iden*y -- seems like the word t*t is blocked.

How do I disable this word blocking, or edit the block word list?

I am using the latest XOOPS 2.4.5, and the latest newbb module for forum.

Thank you very much.

Reply to: Catzwolf

Oh, wow, that explains just what I needed.

I was trying to use the Content module for content management, even though I seen the WFChannel content management module, I was afraid that it might be impossible for me to use it.

Therefore, I do not like how the pages look with the current Content module that I am using, so I am now upgrading to the WFChannel content management module.

Thanks a lot!

Reply to: RealMcCoy

I could maybe upload the latest XOOPS 2.4.5 to a test domain name on my website, but I have no idea where to download the latest Publisher 1.0 alpha version, because the website has not download links, and I already tried looking.

Thank you very much.

Reply to: Peekay

Okay, that fixes the problem I guess. Next there should be:

- The latest and tested working modules should go into the modules repository, then they could add old, and new modules area (if necessary).

- They could either host all the files on the sourceforge.net website, some website, ftp, or else, as long as the link constantly remain working, without down time.

- Also, lots more details, and/or reviews about the modules would be pretty nice.

- Also wish somebody could take the best parts from modules, and make they into very good working main modules, which are easy to find, easily named, easily organized, more detailed, etc. - or wish somebody wrote an article or tutorial on how to make your own modules or how to combine them

This is to make sure that you do not have to search forever to find the modules you need for your website. Easy to find modules, that would do just about what you need on your XOOPS website, by category / ... - or combine some modules. Then again, maybe a XOOPS demo site, screenshots, more reviews, etc. - would be nice.

-- At top, I am applying to new XOOPS users, because it is usually very hard for them to figure stuff out on which modules would do just what they need in their XOOPS website.

-- But I will check out the resource book, as soon as I will finish the basic parts to my website, and then I can work towards improving parts of the website.

Thank you very much.

I have tried downloading a lot of different modules from the modules repository, and lots of the download links do not work.

That is okay, because I found replacement modules for the one's that I could not download, that fit my website needs. But, there shouldn't be these problems, really, on a production site.

This can make a lot of people frustrated, and can lead to confusion problems, wheither or not the XOOPS.org project is un-updated, un-administered, the website has problems, and such.

Here are few ideas:

- Have the XOOPS.org webmaster host all the files themselves either on their website (seperate sub-domain / folder / ...), or the XOOPS.org webmaster can use an online file sharing / backup service, like ADrive.com, which gives you free 50GB of online storage.

- Have a separate website for all the XOOPS.org modules downloads / more information... : such pages may include; module information, author contact information (e-mail, website, etc..), download link(s), etc.

- Also, have all the download links work without any problems, without any broken links. Even though some XOOPS.org module may seem old, or like it is not used by some people, I am sure there are still people out there that either use those module(s), or new XOOPS.org users may want to try those module(s) out. Like an archival modules place for XOOPS. I am not saying keep all the XOOPS modules that are old, etc. - but only keep those that do what they supposed to do - working, and not some not working stuff (such as old beta's, when there are more later versions of those modules).

- I still wish I could download a lot, or most of the modules in the XOOPS.org modules repository, but since lots of the download links are dead, it may be impossible to find all of them where to download that have the dead download links, and especially if you want to archive all the modules as backup.

Also: I am thinking of maybe starting my own XOOPS modules archive repository website, with XOOPS related material only for backup and archival purposes, and also to keep steady working download links. I will probably make this website later on when I will get the time to, if I really decide that people are interested in me making this website.

I want to make a XOOPS repository website, similar to: Fedora Linux - Hosted Projects --https://fedorahosted.org/web/ ; where all the working quality XOOPS modules repository will be. Nothing else, nothing more - except maybe forum.

Any suggestions, or ideas would be appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Reply to: RealMcCoy

After I have tried phpNuke before, then I kept searching for the best CMS (content management) php system, then I stumbled upon XOOPS, I knew I would need to use it later on, but I was afraid it may or will be impossible for me to use. That was about year or so ago. Therefore, my website making skills and understanding are much higher now (in general terms how to make a basic website, not php programming, even though I do understand how some php code works, I cannot actually program "any" of my own php code - I mainly use a website designer program - such as MS Frontpage, and where needed, I adjust the website, using HTML code add-ons, etc.).

Then about 2 days ago, after many waster months trying to make my own basic e-commerce website (mainly store, and some other stuff), I failed, because I could not make my own template to use, was afraid to make it correctly, did not know what to put on the website home page, etc. I also tried using and searching for many different very good templates online, but none of them worked, because I was trying to use a DHTML menu on my website, which did not make my website look too good, because for that to work, I would have to make my own template and website drop down menu from scratch for them to fit together, or else, it's useless, because it would look very bad.

Then after I decided which parts I want to use in my website, I then decided that I might as well try XOOPS, because I have no other way to succeed with making my own website template to use for my website.

After about 2 days of asking people help on the XOOPS forum, and by personally looking around everywhere in XOOPS 2.4.5, I feel like I can easily do everything with XOOPS, and now I won't have nightmares, trying to figure out how to correctly make my own website template, to make my website look the way I want it to look.

What I mean is: You do not have to be an advanced user to learn and be able to use XOOPS content management on your website. You just need to know what you want from your website, what parts you want to put on your website - mainly website planning, then with XOOPS, some trial and error (not alot, just some... - it depends, everyone is different), you shall succeed with using XOOPS on your website.

Personally, I can't wait for the next latest XOOPS version to come out, since I heard you can easily use the blocks feature on your XOOPS website, and move stuff around, which would make a lot of things on my current website much easier.

Do not give up, and keep trying, soon XOOPS is going to be second nature to you. :)

Also, I especially like how everyone on the XOOPS forums are very nice and respect you. That makes me feel very good when using the XOOPS CMS (content management), and when posting to the forums. :)

Thank you very much.

How do you add content to your main Home Page (i.e. the index file that is visible when you enter your website domain name)?

I tried searching everywhere in Xoops 2.4.5, including Blocks administration, and I cannot seem to figure out how you add content to the "center" of the page, where the content is supposed to go?

I figured out how to add blocks, and menu links on sides, but I cannot figure out how to add content to the middle of the home page?

I also want to figure out if it is possible to put the items in the Block administration on the center of the home page, because I cannot seem to figure out how to do that?

Please help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Reply to: red_Slider

The problem is I am not too good with CSS...

I know how CSS works (kind of by looking at some CSS files), but I have not really tried to implement them.

So my main problem would be getting used to it...

Thank you very much.

Reply to: Mazarin

I will try the Multimenu hack later on, when I will get more time on my hands. Also, thank you for the latest Multimenu 2.0 download link. I appreciate it.

Also, I decided to maybe just go ahead, and use the default XOOPS blocks system to add all my website links to it, because after trying to use the latest Multimenu 2.0 module, I did not get too far..

Thank you very much.