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    I want to display some of my sideboxes on my front page only, and suppress them from all other pages. 


    No problem. Let's use the featured product sidebox as an example.

    Create an over-ride for the sidebox's module file. For the featured products sidebox, this would involve copying includes/modules/sideboxes/featured_products.php to ...
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    How do I remove "Page 1", "Page 2" and "Page 3" from my more information sidebox? 


    Go to Admin > Configuration > Define Page Settings and set their values to 2 or 3. ...
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    How do I display the search box in the header only? 


    There are two sideboxes for search.  You can control both through the Admin > Tools > Layout Box Controller.

    The search.php sidebox is a conventional sidebox ...
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    How do I re-arrange the order of the links in the information sidebox? 


    1. Create (if you don't already have it) a directory names includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/
    2. Copy the includes/modules/sideboxes/information.php file into your new directory
    3. Edit the "if" blocks into the order that you would like them to appear.
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    Is it possible to make some of my sideboxes appear only when a visitor is logged in? 


    It's both possible and straightforward. Just four simple steps.

    1. Locate the module for the sidebox (or boxes) that you want to treat like this. You'll find them in includes/modules/sideboxes.

    2. Create over-ride files for them by copying them to includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME. ...
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