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Sunday, 26 November 2006 00:10

Often there's a need for a nice clean login module to complete the new professional site you are working on. However, the default Joomla! login module uses some ugly tables and you can't turn of certain things to get that svelte look you want so badly. RocketTheme has created a modified version of the default Joomla! login module built to fill this need and you can see it in action at the very top of this demo.

To implement the custom Vortex login module on your site, just follow these easy steps:

Installing the Vortex Login Module

Download the mod_rt_login.zip archive from the Vortex download section of the RocketTheme Joomla! Club. Login in to your administratior console on your Joomla! website and navigate to the Installers menu item, and select Modules from the dropdown menu.

In the Upload Package File section, click the Choose File button and select the mod_rt_login.zip file you downloaded earlier. Next click the Upload FIle & Install button to install the module.

Publishing the Module

Now the module is installed it must be published in the appropriate module position and configured to suite our needs. From the top menu, select Modules then Site Modules. This will take you to the Site Module Manager which allows you to configure the placement and configuration of all modules in your joomla website.

You can access the module configuration screen and edit the module by clicking on the module title of the module named RT Login Form

Configuring Your New Module

The next step is to configure the module to your needs, the configuration used in this demo is shown in the images on the right. Click on them to reveal full size versions.

The key parts to modify are as follows:
  • Change the name of the module to Member Login
  • Ensure the module is published in the correct position, top is the position reserved for this module in Vortex (In order to be shown properly, be sure no other modules are published to the top position)
  • Published is set to Yes
  • Choose the Pages/Items where this module should be shown. The easiest solution is to choose All
  • Lastly, this module has two new properties to cut down on the visual clutter, so we set the Forgot Password Link to Hide and the Auto-Remember property to True


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