Installing a Module

The following steps will make your module the last thing on the right-hand sidebar.

1. Download a zip file with the two files mod_mymodulename.php and mymodulename.xml inside.

2. From the administrators panel in Joomla select: installers -> modules.

3. Then browse and select the zip file.

4. Then select "Upload file and install".

5. There shouldn't be any error messages.

6. Then select from the navigation bar running along the top of the administrators panel: Modules -> Site Modules.

7. Then click on the name of your module.

8. Now you are editing the settings for your module.

9. Choose position: Right.

10. Choose Access Level: at-the-very-bottom-of-everything.

11. Choose: Public.

12. Then save.

13. Then check the box in the left column next to your module name and publish.

14. Go to the front of Joomla (http://joomla/index.php).

15. Hit the browser refresh button.

16. You should see a box with your module's name on it on the bottom with whatever your module displays inside of it.

17. I know this descrption is overkill, but didn't want to leave anything out.

There are other descriptions of how to do this here.