I have a strange problem at the minute in that my News items from the News module are no longer been crawled by google when since I updated the XOOPS core to 2.2.3

I have the same problem on 2 sites.

One site is using News 1.42 and the other is using News 1.3.

Google is able to crawl the site, I have not disallowed the googlebot and I have index, follow in my admin options.
Google used to crawl the site all the time and looking for other pages from my sites, google has plenty of news from before I did the update.

I use a recent News block at one site and the spotlight module at another site, if the news item is in one of these blocks when the googlebot stops by, then searching for that term on my site will return a result to my hompage, however this is not very good as once you get there the news item may no longer be in the recent news block.

Oh by the way, both sites in question do not use any modules as the homepage, my homepage on both sites is made up of blocks only.

Any ideas?

If there is another post on this, please point me in the right direction as the XOOPS search seems to be bringin up nothing similar to my problem.

Dave

What theme are you using for administration?

Try changing the admin theme to something like default, or at least one of the themes that come with XOOPS 2.2.x

This may not resolve your problem, but I had a problem where non of my admin menus were working because I had a corrupted theme for admin.

Dave

Hi there.

When you view the userinfo.php page for any user, you can see any details they wish to share, you can also see a list of modules which they have posted to, for example you can see if they have made posts to the news module.

The end of the template looks like this:



This works fine for all modules except one, so I want to know where it gets the list of modules from so that I can see about adding the information for the missing module.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for any help on this.

Dave

oops.

Mis-read question, glad you got it sorted though.

Dave

She may not have clicked on the button that says finish right at the end of the registration process.

In this case the user details are note saved to the db.

Can you include a link so that one or more of us can try to sign up?

Dave

Unfortunately there are several XOOPS modules that do not deal with the HTML 'blank' lines very well.

Your problem is caused by the news module reading each of you html lines as a new line, even if all they contain is a html tag, try doing this:



Dave

You need to be looking at this line:

#page-ml {margin: 20px 80px 20px 80px;padding: 0;background: #fff url("../images/ml.png") repeat-y left;}

Hope it points you in the right direction.

Dave

Hi there,

Banner size should be dictated by you or your site/theme

Most banners are 468x60, however you can get larger and of course smaller images.

If your getting banner code from someone like Amazon for example, then go to Banners within the admin section of your site, setup a client called amazon.
Now go to the add banner part of the site choose amazon from the list of clients, decide how many impressions the banner should have, 0 = unlimited number of page impressions.

then you will see the option for image url and something like target url.

Img URL is for linking to images that are at another site, the target URL would be where you wish to send them.

Alternatively, going back to the amazon idea, you would have banner code from them, you can tick the box that says something like use HTML and paste the banner code in the large box and then click Add Banner, this will add the banner to your site and you will not have had to use FTP.

Dave

Oh, actually I'll have a crack at those other Q's as well.

Quote:

First off, not sure what module you refer to, I am thinking that you are on about Extended Profiles?

2.
What is the Category section for?

Not sure where you are seeing this, I can't see it myself.

1.
When I enter the admin section > Users, there is a dropdown box to choose a user. This is totally empty. I'm able to click a link that says 'List' and then get a proper drop down box.

I have this also and It is kind of strange, the drop down list should be populated from the start really, or at least that would make the most sense.

To see who makes up a group you should have 2 ways of getting this info:

1. From Admin, go to Users and then Groups.
You should see the groups that you have available, the default is 3 groups (webmaster, registered, anonymous) but you may have created more groups such as a group for moderators or article contributers...
Click Modify next to the name of the group your interested in. You will see all of their 'options' such as module access rights for example.
Right at the bottom of the page you should see 2 boxes, one for Non-members and one for Members.

Anyone that appears in the members is a part of that group.

A person can be a member of more than one group, and will get all 'privilages' from group 1 AND all privilages from group 2.

2. Go to modules > Extended Profiles > Users, you get the drop down menu with no names but you can click on List, click List and you get a popup window.
The pop up window should offer three options to you.
1. User List: A fully populated list of users
2. Group: Any Groups you have (e.g. Webmaster, Registered, Anonymous)
3. Rank: Any Ranks you have (webmaster, moderator, friend of XOOPS etc)

If you select option 2. the option for Group, choose the group e.g. moderator and then click the button for Refresh and the list of users (1.) should be reduced to include only those members that make up that group.

Again, does that lot make sense or have I made it worse?

Dave

3.
What's the difference between
a) Field visible on profile for these groups
b) Field visible on these groups' profile

Hi.

First imagine you have a group called Moderators, which you give almost as much 'power' or access as you do to your webmasters.

a) Moderators would be allowed to see this field for groups if the field has been set to visible in b) groups profile.

So if you say that the field for Location will be available on the profiles for users in the registers users group, you can then choose to make this field available to certain groups for example the moderators.

OR you may want your anonymous users to view your member profiles (b) BUT you do not want anonymous users to see when the users from your registered users group (a) last logged in.

Ok does that make sense or did I just confuse it further?

Also, I think the field will only become visible if 1. You have allowed it to be visible AND 2. the user has supplied some info, but I am not sure about that, so for example if you say that webmasters can see the location field, but the user has not provided any info for this field, then I think the field would not be displayed anyway. (At least thats what I get on my site)

Dave.