Post installation

I have the front_page module installed, and I have it set to redirect my users to site.com/closed_registration. I have a php code that turns off all the side menus if you are not logged in. Problem is, there are still the links across the top, Drupal.org has them as well (support, handbooks, forum, downloads, etc). Using those, anonymous users can fly right through my forums and browse the groups.

Normally it would be best to let them see it and get interested so they will sign up, but the main draw of my site is that it is invite only! If anyone can come in and browse the goods, why bother seeking an invite? I tried taxonomy access control and I set a category for groups, then denied viewing rights to anonymous users, but then I log off and browse right through all my group homepages. THIS. SHOULD. NOT. HAPPEN. Why is it so hard to turn off the top menu (I am using the theme internet_center) or make it so any page that the visitor goes to redirects them back to site.com/closed_registration? If you supply me with any php hacks to allow this (which I very much welcome, because if my site were live right now I would be the laughingstock of the internet), please tell me exactly where they go in exactly why file, I am not very familiar with the structure of php files, and not in the best mood right now.

Drupal is the only CMS that gets close enough to what I need, and my needs are complex. It is easy to make it do amazingly powerful things, but it seemingly can't do the simplest things like basic security without core hacks and modifying modules, not to mention the forums keep piling up with questions that never seem to get answered. Probably the people who know how to use Drupal are too busy enjoying it to leave their servers :p

I'd like to associate an image with taxonomy terms, but also be able to control where they appear.

For example, I have a vocabulary Site News and another one Anime Series. On the front page news, I would only want the site news taxonomy image to be displayed. However, on certain custom views (made by the views module), I want the anime series to be displayed with its image.

I can live without this, but I like the facelift it would give my site.

What's the current solution for 4.7?

Anisa.

I am deploying a drupal site for a state university department. I have a couple quick questions about some modules I am interested in using in regard to adding some features to the site.

1. Most of the site needs to be publicly viewable (all of the admin options/login/admin menu items are completely hidden when not logged in), essentially only admins and about 8 authors will ever authenticate. The only things that need to be private are a couple of pages for displaying a flexinode type, and all items of said flexinode content type. This set of data will be our department's computer inventory, and whatever pages necessary to display and edit its content. I think that the module node_privacy_by_role would suffice for my needs, but I can't seem to find the download page for it? Any info on that, or possible alternatives?

2. Ways to display a list of my flexinode type. My flexinode type has ~25 fields, but I would still like to try and display each entry on a single line of text, so I suppose that I will need to custom theme the table display of the items in some way. I really like the menu that comes out when I use mysite/flexinode/table/1, but the text size and some other odds & ends would need to be re-formatted to fit it all elegantly in one frame (or at least a reasonably appropriate width). I especially like that you can sort by every field when using the core list url I mentioned above. Even a way to just open a window with nothing but the list in it would be great (i.e. NO: header (or header formatting), left bar, right bar or footer).

I'm trying the "Control Panel" module with the "Block Bar" module.
I'm trying to replace my main menu using it, I created two Control panel blocks, and configure them the same way, but for some reason, one block shows one row of items, and the other two rows.

Image: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8753/tworowsoncontrolpanelev9.jpg

Hi,
In my project i have a custom requirement. Anyone wants to post a comment in the blog, i have to check whether they are registered with us. I created a table and i have a status field and the (new)user upon loggin in the status is no.
When the user wants to post a comment i am able to check whether the user is registerd or not by the status field. I want to redirect him to a registration page.

Arere? I could've sworn there was a module for this, but I can't find one in the module downloads for 4.7 or 4.6 and searches don't bring up much.

Right now I am using free tagging for Anime Series, but free tagging seems to have an invisible limit on how many terms you can input, so I want to change over to a standard multi-select. This will require a mass import of terms, all of the same level though... Any ideas?

Anisa.