Modules on non menu articles/pages
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- Boulder Imaging
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One thing I'd love to be able to do - and searched long and hard and haven't found a solution - is to place modules onto pages that are published but not on published menus. If the page isn't on a published menu seems like the modules never are applied. Not good. Wouldn't it be nice to design great pages without this being a limitation? Very curious issue that seems to be related to the application design. I'm sure it's tied into the url being published or something like that. Well, why should that be a limitation - if the article is enabled/published then the page should have a URL even if it isn't on a published menu.
Any ideas would be fantastic. I've even tried using Modules Anywhere - no dice.
Help?
Kevin Shayne
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- DanG
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So would this work, you have module called my-module-does-something and you assign it a module position of mymoduledoessomething.
Then you create an article, which isn't tied to a menu item, and then in the article have this HTML code ->On your Front page, you create a link that calls your article which uses loadposition to place your module on the menu-less page.{loadposition mymoduledoessomething}
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- C-T-O
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- Alternatively ...... create a hidden menu by making a new menu and assigning it to a position that doesnt exist so it never shows up. Assign the page you want to place modules on to that menu and then just assign that module to the page in whatever position you want.
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- Pylon
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You need to to this:
docs.joomla.org/How_to_control_module_di...le_with_no_menu_item
Or if that doesn't cover it, use the Advanced Module manager ( extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...les-management/10307 ) or MetaMod if all else fails ( extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...ules-management/3391 ) - We don't design pylons...
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- Boulder Imaging
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I ultimately resolved this using 2 products:
* extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-en...embed-a-include/6958
* extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-en...embed-a-include/6402
The second is for Modules Anywhere which is fantastic. It allows for putting modules on specific article pages as well as by category or section, etc. Very extensive and should be built into 1.5. Not sure how 1.6 handles such issues but this extension is one I couldn't live without.
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