I am planning to follow the guide and create a module extension for personal use. So I want to clone the news module in order to give it my own look and feel. It has everything I need (date, author, excerpt, number of comments, views etc.) except for one thing... a featured image (pick the first one...

You should rather have a look at this if you really require PHP: https://github.com/board3/Board3-Portal/wiki/%5BHow-To%5D-Create-a-module-for-Board3-Portal-2.1.x I have a similar request. Sometimes all I want from a custom module is a custom appearance. For example, a news module with rearranged e...

Bad idea? Good idea?

Any thoughts on this?

I think it would be nice if we could choose a custom template in the ACP, for each module that we've added.

We could then use our own custom template for the News block, and present the news the way we want them to look like.

That may come in handy, thanks.

However, I can't apply that for custom modules. :/

I can't see it, because I have to be a registered user. Moreover, registrations seem to be closed.

Anyway, what's there to see?

Could we have an option to disable a module's header (the "line" that hosts the icon and title)?

I want this too so much. I've posted a similar request, for a featured content slider:

http://board3.de/tracker.php?p=14&t=228