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Editing the settings of Frontpage of a Mambo site has never been easy as the front page manager does not give you the opportunity to do so. Using frontpage manager you can hardly publish / unpublish the content-items in the front page or set the orders in which they apprear in the front page. But the setting likes number of content-items to be displayed in the frontpage, or content-items per row to be displayed in your home page can not be changed using the frontpage manager.So i searched the net and got to links that tell us specifically what need be done to edit the settings of your home page.

The links cited atop are enough but here is a quick quide of how to do the same.

Step: 1 - Log on to Mambo Administrative Control Panel.

Step:2 - Click Menu -> Mainmenu

The manu manager opens the mainmanu items for you to edit.
Step:3 - Click Home ( The first menu item by default)

A page opens ” EDIT MENU ITEM :: Component ( Frontpage)

Step:4 - Now tweak with the parameters to edit the settings.

Like : Setting #intro = 10 will display introduction of ten items in the frontpage ( home page)

Setting Columns = 3 will display three columns per row (i.e. three content items per row )

This is how it should be done.

Uselink links:

http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=13437

http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=16767

For Mambo Version 4.5.2

Here is the link to Letterman Version 1.2.3 Newsletter package to be installed as a Mambo Component.

Download Letterman Newsletter. 

Download Letterman Newsletter (Opens in new window).

Download the source files and save it to your hard disc.

Now install the component first (com_lettermansubscribe_1.2.3.tar.gz
), then install the module(mod_lettermansubscribe_1.2.3.tar.gz).

Once installation is done,  simply publish the Letterman Newsletter module.

Now your visitors can subscribe/unsubscribe to your newsletter service.

In the backend as an administrator you can modify the configuration, compose, send and publish the newsletters and manage your subscribers.

The entire process of installation will hardly take few minutes as the file size is very small.

For any reason whatsoever, if you think you need to edit footer information , i.e. the text like Copyright Mambo .. Mambo is a free software…, appearing at the bottom of each page of your website, the easiest way to do that is to search for the file:

/public_html /includes/footer.php

Change its permission, if necessary, to allow you to write.

Open it in edit mode. At the begining of that file you shall see the Mambo Copy right information. Keep the lines within  PHP Tags intact.

Now you are ready to change the default copyright information with your own.

Simply Cut whatever is written after that Closing PHP TAG and paste it in a text editor for probable future use, if necessary.

Now write  your copyright infformation like this using standard HTML:

Save the file footer.php, once the editing is done.

If you have changed the permission, restore the file permission to default, usually 644.

This was an easy-to-implement guide for editing/removing footer information in Mambo.

Cheers.