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Translate a XOOPS module to another language, make all its default text available in another language.

Start posting messages, new items, blog posts, articles etc on your XOOPS run website.

The xoRewriteModule makes it possible to rewrite XOOPS URLs. It is not a real module and its installation is quite different from the way XOOPS modules are usually installed. This howto describes how to install it.

The users of your website prefer URLs like www.example.com/beach-resorts.html to URLs like www.example.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1. Rewriting a URL in a way that it becomes descriptive will probably improve your ranking in search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN. This howto describes how to rewrite URLs for SmartSection 2.13, a content management module for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS.

You run a XOOPS site with xLanguage and you want to rewrite your URLS so that www.yourdomain.com/index.php?lang=en becomes www.yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com/index.php?lang=nl becomes www.yourdomain.com/nl/

The print button and the pdf button in the XOOPS module Smartsection allow the visitor to print your articles to pdf or to paper. However, these buttons are also a source of "double content" which may affact your search engine ranking in a negative way. Read how to remove those buttons...

SmartSection is a great module for content management that can be used in XOOPS, XOOPS Cube or ImpressCMS. Unfortunately, it shows the module name "SmartSection" in your page title. This has negative impact on the ranking of your site in search engine ranking for relevant keywords. Read how to get rid of the module name in the title tag.

WF Downloads is a module for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS used to set up a downloads section on websites. Unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible or hardly visible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. Read how to remove the hidden text link from WF Downloads 3.2.

SmartSection is one of the best articles management modules for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS. It can be used for a weblog, a news section or for static content. It has some great SEO features. Unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. Read how to remove the hidden text link from SmartSection 2.13.

SmartPartner is an advanced Partners Management System for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS. It enables you to create a listing of partner websites. It is a great module, but unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. The good news is that these hidden links can easily be removed! Read how to remove the hidden text link from SmartPartner 1.02.

If a webpage on www.example.com/index.php shows the same content as www.example.com/ , you may consider a redirect in order to improve your site's ranking in search engines. The aim of this howto is to redirect this page.

This is what you can do against spammers who abuse your XOOPS site.

Move a XOOPS site to another folder. For example, if a XOOPS site that you created in a folder is ready, you may wish to move it to the root of your site.

Add functionality to your XOOPS site by installing a module.

Show a message like "No Comments Yet" when there are no comments on an article in XOOPS. Such a message makes it easier for your visitors to understand the comment section of a webpage. IMHO, such a message should have been included by default in XOOPS modules where you can comment, but unfortunately it hasn't always. Read how to add it.

If you create content with the Koivi editor in XOOPS, it adds useless, empty attributes to your hyperlinks like shape="" type="" coords="". Read how to get rid of these.

If you did not correctly install and/or deinstall a XOOPS module, you will see an emptly line in the module overview with the text "Module File for Not Found". Let's get rid of it.

In XOOPS, a template set is a set of html files which govern the design and layout of a site at module level. The design and layout of the entire site is governed by the theme. This describes how to edit templates.

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Show the people who logged in to your XOOPS website a different text than the visitors who did not log in.

SmartSection is a popular content management module for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS. If you want to create a copy of SmartSection 2.13, you can use the manual found in the file clone_info.txt which you receive when you download and extract SmartSection. Unfortunately, this is not an option of you can't run commands on your server. Here is a way to clone SmartSection manually.

If you use the Article module and the Tag module on your XOOPS website, some double content will be created. Here is what to do against it.

Remove duplicate content generated by the XOOPS TAG module.

Increase the usability of your XOOPS site by showing a "Please login to comment" message below your articles to people who are not logged in on your site.