How To Remove Modules

Worker Joined: Jul 20, 2008 Posts: 126 Location: Germany

Is it possible to remove modules. Such as "Authors and Articles", "Stories Archive", etc. ...
I don't need some of them and it is a bit annoying still having them on the site.

If yes, how can I do that?

registered · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:26 pm

You can remove some, but others are highly intertwined. The two you specifically mentioned I believe you can remove.

What I would recommend is saving off a copy of the files, remove it, test it and if everything seems "ok", you can leave it removed. But, keep those files around in case you need to upload them again. Wink

I would definitely keep Private Messages, Member List and Forums and I probably wouldn't get rid of News.

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:04 am

JeRicHoOL its just not worth to remove included modules and database tables because mostly you need also to remove the code lines from the mainfile.php, admin files etc..
otherwise you will get notices, warnings and sometimes errors.
For example I removed the calendar module completely in a previous version of RavenNuke and I thought its cool to remove all the rest of the other unused modules but there will be a next RavenNuke release and you need to merge your files.

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:11 am

Ok. But I can deactivate them which is no problem.

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:39 am

You will find out if there is a problem on your site.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:18 am

You can deactivate modules from the modules menu, which the same place where you activate modules. Deactivating modules should not cause a problem, they just won't appear in the menu.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:28 am

jakec wrote:

You can deactivate modules from the modules menu, which the same place where you activate modules. Deactivating modules should not cause a problem, they just won't appear in the menu.

Yea, that's what I ment in my last post. Wink