No log out and Missing modules

[Paulo_B]

Something is wrong at http://clnews.org/index.php

Ok I'm a newbee, so last week I hired a person to make a skin, install it and install vBadvanced. Then we had a falling out over some trivial thing. I feel that now I can manage the forum and site. But things don't seem to work.

I can't get the "welcome block" and the "news archive" modules to come up. I've tried for three days and read a lot of threads... no dice.

Also the "recent threads" module showing a wrong forum, the ones I selected for "News" and the "news" module showing the threads I selected for "recent threads". This is madding as I've played with over twenty attempts to get this strightened out. Could it be that there is a deeper command rule that forces the latest threads to "recent threads" overriding the selection. BTW the "news'" module is pointed to a forum that is driven by RSS feeds. They are recent, but because their RSS they NOT being picked out?

I was able to create a center "Purpose Statement " block and get it to come up with two attempts.

In reading these forum support threads I noticed that some advice is to reload a module. Now because I had a third party install vBadvanced, I don't have the program on my C drive.

Question: Is it on the server?

Could that person NOT have loaded every thing? (In an effort to get more money from me?)

I also notice that even though I log-in there is never any user name that comes up in the corner, although the other little box does show I'm a member on the board, but there is NO log out button on the far right of the horizontal nav bar? So whats with that?

Thanks

[Brian]

I can't get the "welcome block" and the "news archive" modules to come up. I've tried for three days and read a lot of threads... no dice.
Admin CP => vBa CMPS => Edit Pages => Default / Homepage
Are those modules checked in the 'Modules Enabled' section there? Also, edit your News Archive module through your admin cp and make sure that you have the 'Number of Archived News Posts to Display' option set to something other than 0.

Also the "recent threads" module showing a wrong forum, the ones I selected for "News" and the "news" module showing the threads I selected for "recent threads". This is madding as I've played with over twenty attempts to get this strightened out. Could it be that there is a deeper command rule that forces the latest threads to "recent threads" overriding the selection. BTW the "news'" module is pointed to a forum that is driven by RSS feeds. They are recent, but because their RSS they NOT being picked out?
Edit the recent threads module and make sure that it has the correct forum(s) selected.

I also notice that even though I log-in there is never any user name that comes up in the corner, although the other little box does show I'm a member on the board, but there is NO log out button on the far right of the horizontal nav bar? So whats with that?
Sounds like a cookie problem. Try the suggestions in the thread below and it should take care of that problem.
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1341

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[Paulo_B]

Hey Brian,

Thanks for the helpful reply. I've gone over things and almost all is fine. Let me work on this bump some more and get back to you.

Cheers