The Wordbook module will display glossary links in it's descriptions(articles). It does so by comparing every word in the glossary to every term in the description. This causes a heavy server load with a large glossary of terms. Wordbook will not create links in content from other modules. The module seems to be inactive as it has not been updated in over a year.

There are a couple of ways to do this.

Method A: Code the logo into all module templates.

Some modules (News,Sitemap,etc.) have a logo coded into their templates. You can switch it on and off in the module's preferences. Just upload your logo to the module's image directory overwriting the author's logo.

Unfortunately, many modules do not have a logo option so you will have to code the image into those templates.

I abandoned this method because it was difficult to update logos to the many image folders.

Method B: Code the module logos into your themes.

Newer XOOPS versions use a Smarty variable ( $xoops_dirname ) to hold the module's directory name. See this FAQ by Chapi, How can I display different images or include different stylesheets according to the currently viewed module? for more information.

Here's what works for me:
1) Create a directory (ex: images/modulelogos) to hold all module logos.

2) Create and upload a logo for each module. Use the same image file type for all logos. Name the logo using the module's directory name (Example: mylinks.gif). Create and upload a generic logo named system.gif that will display on all system pages.

3) Insert some image code using the dirname Smarty variable into theme.html.




I settled on this method because all of the module logos could be stored in one directory, there was no need to edit individual module templates and it could easily be added to new themes. You can see this in use on www.technicalcrew.com.

edit: Whoops, looks like I am a little late on the draw on this answer. I have basically repeated Stefan's excellent suggestion.

I think alot of your questions will be answered by a visit to Control Panel/System Admin/ Groups. Select the group you want to Modify and assign module access and block access for that group. System Admin Rights and Module Admin Rights allow the user to access the Control Panel Admin are normally assigned to webmasters only.

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By default any block assigned to anonymous is also assigned to registered users including webmaster. You will have visit Control Panel/System Admin/Groupsto modify the registered and webmaster groups. Open their Modify Group Forms, look for Blocks Access Rights and uncheck the blocks those groups should not see.

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Visit Control Panel/System Admin/Groups ... Edit Groups... Modify Group Form and assign Module Access Rights to the anonymous group.

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4a. Not sure what happened here. You may have missed a submit button on Block Admin page or needed a page refresh. Changing a block's location in either "Blocks Admin" or "Edit a Block" page should change both pages immediately.

4b. Yes

I found Xoops for Dummies very helpful when I first installed xoops.

In 2.0.14 the custom block can be assigned to the Anonymous group in the control panel/system admin/groups page. Look for Edit Group and select Modify Anonymous Users. The Modify Group form will open. Look under Block Access Rights for Your Custom Block Title and check the box next to it.

Webmasters and registered users automatically have access to custom blocks.

I would use phpmyadmin to compare the sql tables. If the MW module uses a table structure similar the MediaWiki script tables, it may be as simple as copying and renaming some tables to your XOOPS database.

Definately back up both databases before experimenting!

Hervet's Marquee Module and a recent News block might work for you.

Hi,
In 2.0.14 goto System admin/blocks.
Scroll to the the bottom of the page and look for "Add a new block". You can write custom blocks in XOOPS Code, html or php. You can assign which pages to display the custom block and which groups have permission to view it.

Check your mailbox for realty.tgz

You will want to use Index,Follow to have the bot index the text and follow the links on each page.

No Index will prevent the site from being listed on the search engine's index. Here a good link about the robots meta tag: http://www.searchtools.com/robots/robots-meta.html

You will also want to check that you have a robot.txt file in your home directory. The robot.txt that is installed with XOOPS works for most situations. Here's a good link for robot.txt info: http://www.searchtools.com/robots/robots-txt.html

You could write and save the custom block as an html file.

Something like this should work:
<code>
<img src="yourfile.jpg" width="widthpx" height="heightpx" alt="whatever" align="left" hspace="5px" vspace="5px">

or

<img src="yourfile.gif" width="widthpx" height="heightpx" alt="whatever" align="left" style="margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;">
</code>