Blocks

The Headlines block simply displays links to the content of the feeds you have listed.

Figure 9 Headlines seen live on the your Website

If you set “Display in Block” to “Yes” in the Headlines preferences, you can now see them here.

In this case, the block is linking to two separate websites that provide articles about XOOPS and Sports from Yahoo. Clicking on the title of the site, for example “XOOPS Official Website” will open the URL listed as the feed’s home page, while clicking on a ‘headline’ will open an individual article on the remote site. In either case, the remote site will open in a new window.

This is done by using blocks. To manage blocks, click on the “Blocks” link in the module’s Administration:

When you click on the top menu “Blocks” you’ll be redirected to the Blocks screen, with the Headlines blocks already filtered out for you:

Headlines Module provides you with only one block. First, let’s move the block to the Right position, and set the block to be visible by clicking on the “visibility” icon, which can have two states:

Now the “Block Edit” screen will open up:

These are the options that we need to change:

Most of the time you can leave it as it is.

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