Chapter 7. Block Anywhere Techniques

XOOPS provides you with eight block positions, which should be more than enough in most cases. However, for a very complex home page, you may still run out of blocks. And sometimes you want to totally abandon the traditional block layout for your home page, as the block layout can look quite old-fashioned.

The key question is how to fully customize your XOOPS home page, without the limitation of the block system. Well, it may sound a bit fancy and high-tech, but actually it isn’t. Thanks to the work of some module developers, we have several solutions available. I’ve picked one that I believe is the easiest: the XOOPS Tools module. Of course, you can search for other solutions, but the mechanism is the same: making use of Smarty plug-ins.