This module allows an editor who does not have administrative rights – but has publishing rights – to enable or disable the public visibility of an occasional announcement on a web page. It is designed for short-term announcements, such as those relating to last minute announced or canceled meetings, unexpected events whether good or bad, and so on, which typically should be displayed for short period of times above the main articles on all pages or on specific pages.

Its main benefit is that the user performing the editing does not need a Super User account to hide or display the module’s content as needed. However, initially the module must still be installed by a system administrator, but without the need – at that time – to create actual content or perform detailed configurations.

It is important to mention that, with the exception of the module instance created during the installation process, when the Publisher user category associated with that instance was granted frontend editing rights, it is subsequently the administrator’s responsibility to ensure that any other newly created module instance (if applicable) will also have frontend editing rights properly granted to the Publisher user category.

Technically speaking, the module is just the Joomla’s native Custom module with WYSIWYG editing capabilities, with the added feature that its content can be hidden or made visible through direct editing from the frontend. This feature has nothing in common with the default option to publish or unpublish the module as a whole (which functionality is not affected).